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...rose to become the reputed boss of New York City's Gambino crime family, John (Big John) Gotti survived a planned rubout by rival mobsters, a four-year prison term for attempted manslaughter, and a sensational eight-month trial in 1987 that led to his acquittal on racketeering charges. Last week he confronted what prosecutors claim to be the most formidable charges brought against the dapper reputed gangster since a murder indictment 15 years ago. Gotti claims he makes his living as a salesman for a plumbing company...
...case. He was charged with arranging for a Hell's Kitchen gang called the Westies to gun down John O'Connor, an official of a carpenters' union local in Manhattan, in 1986. The alleged motive: O'Connor had trashed a nonunion construction job at a restaurant that the Gambino $ family controlled. "I give you 3-to-1 odds I beat this case," vowed Gotti, before posting a $100,000 bond the next...
...president of its Home Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk about films being made with laundered Mob money. A widening investigation is under...
Gotti, 46, was accused of seven racketeering acts, among them the 1973 barroom murder of James McBratney, who, prosecutors said, was suspected of killing a nephew of the late Carlo Gambino, then head of the Gambino crime family. Gotti helped do away with McBratney, prosecutors claimed, to gain favor within the family...
According to federal officials, Gotti, a mere captain in the Gambino family when the charges were filed, got the top job after Gambino Boss Paul Castellano was gunned down on a midtown Manhattan street in December 1985. Authorities believe that Gotti organized the hit, but he has not been charged...