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Even if Gotti is acquitted, law-enforcement officials say, his hold on the family leadership has been seriously weakened because the don has caused too many headaches for his Mob colleagues. "He's been a disaster for the Gambino family," says Ronald Goldstock, head of the New York task force. "Even though he knew that he was a target of law-enforcement and electronic surveillance, he was unable to avoid ((arrest))." Though the media have often portrayed Gotti as a new-style yuppie don with a penchant for smart suits, he is also a throwback to the gun-crazy gangland...
...Goldstock says most of the Gambino crime operations could function even with a leadership vacuum at the top. The trouble will start if the family becomes involved in disputes with other Mob families about dividing the take in shared territory, such as construction or private trash carting. Some organized-crime experts predict that Gotti could meet the same fate as Castellano -- a Mob assassination -- if he ever goes free. The same goes for Gravano. By breaking the sacred code of omerta, or silence, he has committed a capital crime in the eyes of his Mafia brothers. "This...
...dangerous times not only for innocent bystanders but for detectives and agents." Unfortunately, some experts foresee a continuing trend toward violence that will spread to the other families. "The Mafia is weak now, and there's a reduced capacity to resolve disputes in a nonviolent way," points out Ronald Goldstock, who heads the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. "Ironically, violence breeds defection, which weakens the structure and breeds more violence...
...equal importance, Pistone exposed the degree to which Government crime- busting efforts have weakened the Mafia, says Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. The Mob, which once ran thorough security checks on any stranger, simply lacked the "discipline and internal controls" to unmask the agent, he says...
...Goldstock and other investigators think the shrewder members of the Mob may now either pass up the vacant leadership slots or else move into them only gradually to keep from being spotted by press or prosecutors. Predicts Lieut. Remo Franceschini, one of the New York police department's top Mob watchers: "We are going to see a return to the old days, when the Mafia really was a secret organization...