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...media feast was served up by prosecutors trying Gotti Jr., 42, on broad racketeering charges. Made the acting boss of the Gambino crime family when his father, known as the Dapper Don, was jailed for life in 1992, Gotti Jr. insists he has lived on the straight and narrow ever since he was sent to prison for five years in 1999 for racketeering. But U.S. Attorneys think otherwise. That's where DiLeonardo comes in. The convicted Gambino capo-turned-government informer claims Gotti Jr. continued to orchestrate Mob affairs from behind bars. He also fingered Gotti Jr. for ordering...
...rinky-dink cases," Chertoff, who is now the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, told TIME. The result was that Alito prosecuted far fewer drug cases than his predecessor had but also won some major cases, including several convictions of members of the Genovese crime family who had sought to kill Gambino Mob boss John Gotti...
...past 20 years, other Big Apple bosses have courted celebrity. Gambino-family boss John (the Dapper Don) Gotti would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted...
During this period Massino forged an alliance with a Howard Beach neighbor and natural rival, John Gotti, then a rising enforcer in the Gambino clan. "They were running in the same area of Queens," says Colgan, "doing the same things, hijacking trucks, selling stolen goods." Twenty years later, Gotti's recommendation helped make Massino the Bonanno boss...
...conspiracy in which a few families agreed to carve up the garment-industry trucking business among themselves. The trick was bringing a case. There was evidence of extortion, Spitzer recalls, but it was ambiguous, and cases like this had failed in the past. So he charged the Gambinos with something that could stick, an antitrust violation. Thomas and Joseph Gambino and two other defendants took the deal and avoided jail by pleading guilty, paying $12 million in fines and agreeing to stay out of the business. "It was imaginative and smart," says Cherkasky, who calls Spitzer one of the "best...