Word: gambinos
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...latest indictment is similar to the one on which Gotti won an acquittal in 1987. He is accused of heading the Gambino crime family and, as its leader, of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law. But the 11 counts in the new indictment are more serious. He is accused of taking part in four Mob killings and conspiring to arrange a fifth. His organization, according to the charges, took part in illegal gambling, extortion, loan sharking, obstruction of justice and robbery. Three of Gotti's top aides, including Thomas Gambino, son of the late Carlo, the Gambino...
...four, Gotti alone is charged with masterminding the most sensational rubout in recent Mob history: the slaying of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino family, by three gunmen as Castellano left a Manhattan restaurant on Dec. 16, 1985. Gotti has long been suspected of having arranged the hit so he could take over the family. Police contend that Castellano did not trust Gotti and was grooming Thomas Bilotti, his bodyguard, as the next head of the family. (Bilotti too was killed in the ambush.) While Gotti is not accused of pulling a trigger, investigators say they have a witness...
Please don't make me ask you this favor again. Sincerely John Giotti Gambino Crime Family...
Yetnikoff has been dogged by his associations with the industry's leading roughneck, Joseph Isgro, who reputedly has ties to the Gambino crime family. Isgro is a boss of the "Network," an alliance of independent record promoters. He was indicted last year and charged with distributing payola, payments of cash or cocaine, on behalf of the major record labels to radio stations to get certain Top 40 records played. But last week a Los Angeles federal judge threw out the case against Isgro, accusing the prosecutors of "outrageous government misconduct" for withholding evidence. Yetnikoff has never been directly linked...
...1980s, some 1,200 Mafia operatives were convicted, including the leaderships of New York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...