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...crack it or how to make the case. At the time Spitzer was the 33-year-old chief of the labor-racketeering unit at the Manhattan district attorney's office. A few attempts to wire undercover agents had failed, in part because the target--the notorious Gambino family--was wary of such tricks. So Spitzer came up with a high-risk plan to set up his own sweatshop. He brought in a state trooper to run it undercover, then hired 30 laborers who had no idea it was a front. The shop set up on Chrystie Street in the city...
Actors can be so finicky about their wardrobe. Take Steven Seagal, who had a problem with the idea of wearing cement shoes. Reports of Seagal's troubles with associates of the Gambino Mafia clan surfaced several weeks ago when his pal and former producer, Julius Nasso, was indicted on extortion charges. Last week more details emerged. According to court papers, Nasso allegedly led efforts beginning in 2000 to extort $150,000 from Seagal for each movie he made. The actor claims he was so unnerved that he paid $700,000 before the FBI stepped in. The only bright spot...
...gradually worked his way up through the ranks doing contract killings and hijacking trucks before blasting his way onto the big stage in the early 1980s. After ordering a very public hit on boss Paul Castellano in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 16, 1985, Gotti assumed control of the Gambino family. He reigned as boss from 1986-1992, and during those years he became the city’s most notorious media-darling, mainly because federal prosecutors just couldn’t seem to convict him. As he won acquittal after acquittal—either by intimidating key witnesses...
Residents of various working-class Queens neighborhoods also sang Gotti’s praises. They widely eulogized the former Gambino overlord as a philanthropic captain of industry—someone who kept the neighborhood safe, helped out the poor and paid for a fireworks display every Fourth of July in Ozone Park...
Some people have openly voiced their displeasure at the Gambino leader’s glorification. Lourdes Lopez, an administrative sales assistant for M&T Mortgage, was appalled by the excessive media coverage of his passing. “He was a murderer, for God’s sake,” she said in the New York Post. Retired New York City Transit Authority worker Bill Gobler had similar feelings. “I don’t consider him a hero. People liked him because of his image, but when you’re killing people, you can?...