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Patricia Capozzalo, a 38-year-old mother of three, was shot in the back and neck by masked men in front of her Brooklyn home. Investigators called the shooting highly unusual: female relatives of mobsters have traditionally been spared by avenging...
Short, chunky and menacingly combative, Harvey Myerson is one of the country's most talented trial lawyers. But according to charges that will be heard in Brooklyn's federal courthouse next week, he is also one of the most tainted. After building a reputation representing the likes of Donald Trump, Shearson Lehman and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Myerson stands accused of swindling $3.5 million from clients and partners and faces as much as 20 years in prison. Said prosecutor Sean O'Shea after the initial indictment last year: "We have here an unprecedented pattern of greed and dishonesty...
...secret inner workings and rituals of La Cosa Nostra and provided gory details of the 19 killings he admitted taking part in. Most of all, he tried to hammer nails into the legal coffin of John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family, who is on trial in Brooklyn for racketeering, gambling, tax fraud and murder. Known as the Teflon Don because of his acquittals in three previous trials, Gotti may find that his luck has finally...
...cross-examination of Gravano, Gotti's attorney Albert Krieger tried to paint the Bull as a traitorous opportunist who betrayed a longtime friend because he feared for his own neck. Krieger asked Gravano if people in his old Brooklyn neighborhood had a word for someone like...
...last week that Tyrone Sinkler and his friend Ian Moore, 17, were shot to death in a corridor of their Brooklyn high school, New York City Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to lecture the students about self-esteem. The mayor would speak under a banner bearing some words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "The choice today is not between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." It was a gun, of course, that dispatched Martin Luther King to nonexistence nearly 24 years...