Word: gotti
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...rose to become the reputed boss of New York City's Gambino crime family, John (Big John) Gotti survived a planned rubout by rival mobsters, a four-year prison term for attempted manslaughter, and a sensational eight-month trial in 1987 that led to his acquittal on racketeering charges. Last week he confronted what prosecutors claim to be the most formidable charges brought against the dapper reputed gangster since a murder indictment 15 years ago. Gotti claims he makes his living as a salesman for a plumbing company...
...Gotti was a few blocks from a club he had left in Little Italy, when more than 25 New York City police arrested him. Another phalanx of FBI agents and officers stood by, just in case. He was charged with arranging for a Hell's Kitchen gang called the Westies to gun down John O'Connor, an official of a carpenters' union local in Manhattan, in 1986. The alleged motive: O'Connor had trashed a nonunion construction job at a restaurant that the Gambino $ family controlled. "I give you 3-to-1 odds I beat this case," vowed Gotti, before...
...Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk about films being made with laundered Mob money. A widening investigation is under...
Court watchers have also detected a new virulence lately in some defense attacks on prosecutors. During the recent federal racketeering trial that ended in the acquittal of alleged Mob Boss John Gotti, defense lawyers launched savage personal attacks against Prosecutor Diane Giacalone; they even made wild charges that Giacalone had given her underwear to a prospective witness as an inducement to testify. Charges like that, says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, "represent a breakdown in the last thread of civility in a contentious adversarial process...
...Jersey town asks how it could happen, experts fear that others will seek similar fatal attention. -- Senator Sam Nunn fights for strict adherence to a key arms treaty. -- Freedom for John Gotti, the Mafia' s Dapper Don. -- Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole has become a hot presidential candidate. -- Marian Wright Edelman is a Washington lobbyist -- for children...