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...sight of a dog after a fight is horrific. These dogs are missing ears, are covered in excrement and sawdust and are in a state of shock, with a core body temperature that puts them closer to death than to life. Vick deserves everything he gets and more. Anya Gambino, ITHACA...
...Anya Gambino, ITHACA...
Look closely during upcoming Hill hearings into the U.S. Attorneys scandal, and there, whispering in Senator Chuck Schumer's ear, you'll see the person who has quietly powered the Senate's expanding investigation. Preet Bharara, Schumer's chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee, prosecuted the Colombo and Gambino crime families as an assistant U.S. Attorney before Schumer hired him in January 2005. Early this year, he began picking up complaints about the Bush Administration's firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys from sources in the Justice Department and suggested Schumer hold hearings. Now he's the point...
Fitzgerald's rise began in 1988 when he joined the prestigious U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. In 1992 he prosecuted brothers John and Joseph Gambino, two of New York's biggest Mafia leaders. The case ended in a mistrial, which threw Fitzgerald into a funk, but his outlook brightened in 1994 when the Gambinos pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. That same year U.S. Attorney White picked Fitzgerald to prosecute Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheik," for plotting with nine associates to blow up New York City landmarks. Rahman was sentenced to life in prison, and Fitzgerald developed a reputation...
MISTRIAL DECLARED. In the retrial of JOHN (JUNIOR) GOTTI, 42, son of reputed Gambino-family kingpin John Gotti who was indicted in 2004 for racketeering and ordering the 1992 kidnapping of a radio host who had insulted his father on the air; in New York City. The jury hit an impasse over Gotti's claim that he had "retired" before July 1999--which, if true, would place him beyond the five-year statute of limitations on the racketeering charges. A previous jury also could not agree on his guilt. Prosecutors intend to try again...