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| “ | I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country with your oily hair, dressed up in those silk suits, trying to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business with you, but the fact is that I despise your masquerade. The dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself and your whole f-cking family. | „ |
| ~ Patrick Geary to Michael Corleone. |
Senator Patrick "Pat" Geary is a minor antagonist turned supporting character in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II. He is a senator from Nevada, who was involved with the Corleone Family.
He was portrayed by the late G. D. Spradlin, who also portrayed Cyrus Buelton in Tank.
Biography[]
Patrick Geary was a United States Senator from Nevada who often did business with the Corleone crime family and its Don, Michael Corleone. Nevertheless, he privately despised Italian-Americans, disparaging their "oily hair" and "silk suits" and accusing them of trying to "pass themselves off as decent Americans".
In 1958, he was present along with his wife at a party at Michael Corleone's house to celebrate Michael's son Anthony's First Communion. Geary himself gave a speech, in which he mispronounced the Corleone family name and that of Michael's late father Vito ("Vy-to Corleonay"), and called Michael's wife Kay "Pat". He later went into Michael's office to talk with him about business; Michael wanted to obtain a casino in Nevada, but was having trouble with the license. Geary offered to help him in exchange for $250,000, even though the license cost only $20,000. When Michael asked why he had to pay more, Geary started to insult him, his family and Italian-Americans in general, and gloated that he was going to make things difficult for him on purpose. When Michael said he would not pay anything and that he would "appreciate" it if Geary personally paid for the license, Geary laughed and left the room, telling Michael never to contact him again.
Michael tasked his consigliere Tom Hagen with bringing Geary to heel. Hagen knew Geary frequented prostitutes, and so set a trap for him in a brothel owned by Michael's brother Fredo where he often spent time with a certain prostitute. Hagen had Michael's personal assassin Al Neri drug the senator and kill the prostitute, making it seem like Geary was the one who did it. After waking up, Geary saw the dead prostitute covered in blood and could not remember what happened. He was soon visited by Hagen, who told him that he would make the problem go away in return for Geary's "friendship". Geary was now in Michael's pocket for good.
In the winter of 1958, Geary went to Havana along with Michael and Fredo, and attended a New Years's Eve party for dictator Fulgencio Batista, with whom Michael had just struck a lucrative business arrangement. Just before the party, Geary had gone to a live sex show with Fredo, and while drunkenly laughing about it Fredo accidentally revealed that he had betrayed Michael to rival gangster Hyman Roth. The party was interrupted by the Cuban Revolution, with Geary fleeing along with the other guests and shouting that he was a senator so he would be first in line to escape.
In 1959 he was present in the Senate Committee investigating organized crime, and he personally questioned Corleone soldado Willie Cicci. Geary then recused himself from the hearing after hypocritically praising Italian-Americans, thus removing one possible obstacle for Michael. He was then present when Michael's traitorous caporegime Frank Pentangeli testified, but this time he didn't say a word.
External links[]
- Patrick Geary on the Godfather Wiki
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