"I am Joe Lombardo. I have been released on parole from Federal prison. I never took a secret oath with guns and daggers, pricked my finger, drew blood or burned paper to join a criminal organization. If anyone hears my name in connection with any criminal activity please notify the FBI, local police and my parole officer, Ron Kumke."
Some people, namely Abidansky, have hypothesized this was a message to the rest of the Outfit that he wasn't going/hadn't flipped.
But it could have just been a crazy stunt to try to appear candid and above board... which he may have been by that time.
He lived in a very modest three flat. Actually he got "divorced" so it was in his wife's name, though the authorities say there was really no divorce, it was just another scheme.
