Word: gotti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Rehbock, attorney. Sample client: John Gotti...
...members of a "criminal enterprise," not just the gunsels. And its penalties are steep: up to 20 years in jail for each criminal count and triple damages in civil judgments. RICO quickly proved a sterling Mob stopper, as dozens of capos like New York City's John Gotti can testify. But when lawyers in the mid-'80s realized how broadly written it was, it mutated wildly. Prosecutors turned it on white-collar criminals like junk- bond-king Michael Milken. Plaintiffs in normal civil suits (a famous one involved litigious rabbis) used it to extract lucrative awards or far better settlements...
...lawyers and the prosecutors joust over the selection of jurors. So prominent is the case that U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy rounded up 5,000 citizens in his effort to assemble an unbiased jury -- 10 times the number called for last year's sensational trial of Mob chieftain John Gotti. Opening arguments in the bombing case are expected to begin next week. The trial will probably take three to four months, all the while under heavy security provided by dozens of extra police officers...
...depiction of a bisexual, icepick-wielding wild woman. The movie nevertheless grossed more than $350 million worldwide, and since then Eszterhas has sold various ideas that could end up making him more than $10 million over the next two years, among them a $3.4 million script about mobster John Gotti. In addition, he has written a TV commercial for Chanel No. 5 that was directed by Roman Polanski, and he is mulling over a possible move into theater...
...earlier, a condition best symbolized by the figure of Abohalima himself, or rather by his absence. The investigation had already yielded three imprisoned suspects, a cache of bomb-making chemicals, and the beginnings of a money trail. But it had not produced a ringleader; someone not quite "the John Gotti of this group," as a New York sleuth told New York Newsday, but the "guy ((who)) runs the crew...