Word: gotti
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...America pop culture has always glorified criminals, real and fictional. Michael Corleone. Bonnie and Clyde. John Gotti. The current "gangsta" genre in rap is no exception, reveling in crimes and misdemeanors, drive-bys and lootings. And for one of its leading practitioners, Ice Cube, 23, crime certainly pays. His new album, The Predator, entered Billboard's pop as well as its R.-and-B. chart at No. 1 -- the first time a performer has pulled off that double feat since Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life...
...counts of murder and racketeering. Two days later, a federal judge in Boston sentenced Raymond Patriarca, former head of the eponymous New England Mob ring, to an eight-year prison term. But the grief doesn't end there. Scheduled for sentencing this week is glamour don John Gotti...
MORALLY CHALLENGED: Mike Milken, John Gotti, Manuel Noriega, Leona Helmsley and every other soul who finds thievery and deceit irresistible...
Godfather Gotti is guilty as charged...
Nowhere across la Cosa Nostra is there a leader with the clout and thuggish charisma of John Gotti. Following the verdict, Gotti's distraught daughter, Vicki Agnelli, hurled an angry comment at reporters: "My father is the last of the Mohicans. They don't make men like him anymore. They never will." Law- enforcement officials surely hope she is right...