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CONVICTED. VINCENT GIGANTE, 69, a.k.a. "the Chin," bizarrely inventive Mob boss who tried to elude prosecution by claiming insanity, often roaming the streets in a bathrobe; of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder; in New York City. He was acquitted on seven counts of murder...
...courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman in a sun hat looks up at the high-rise where reputed Mob boss Vincent ("the Chin") Gigante, the Oddfather who roamed the streets in his bathrobe, was her most famous neighbor...
...shameless camouflage," and a detective testified that the slow-footed Gigante developed Olympian quickness when a car bore down on him as he crossed Sixth Avenue one day. The government, however, has offered little hard evidence against Gigante, whom associates referred to with a silent tap on the chin...
...here, he's so sick," says his brother Father Louis Gigante. He is part of an entourage that has included a defense-team press agent, marking an embarrassing low point in the history of an organization that never worried about its image; the cross-pollinated offspring of the Chin's wife and the Upper East Side mistress he lives with; and a doctor who carries a medical bag and a look of impending crisis. "Let's check his blood pressure," a family member said gravely during a break. Judge Jack Weinstein has ordered medical personnel to wear something other than...
Back in the neighborhood, in the little concrete triangle parks where locals gather to rest swollen feet and tell lies, and talk about the days before pink hair and nose rings, residents were split as to whether the Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian...