Word: gotti
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...commentary "Awfully Ordinary," about how bin Laden looked on the tape, Lance Morrow called him "the John Gotti of jihad" for his delusion of self-importance [ESSAY, Dec. 24]. I couldn't help thinking of another comparison: Charles Manson. Both bin Laden and Manson collected mentally unstable, fringe-element losers to carry out the cold-blooded murder of innocent people. In their psychotic logic, both men expected to trigger revolutions that would lead them to power. Bin Laden is not a supervillain or a super anything. He's really just a Charles Manson with a rich daddy. KEVIN COLE Seattle...
...Laden may be like one of those not quite bright real-life hoods who strut around with the Godfather movies unreeling in their minds, the theme music playing in their inner ears; Al Pacino has given them the dialogue, a myth of themselves. Bin Laden is the John Gotti of jihad...
DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, writer who chronicled the lives of Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...arrested. PLEADED GUILTY. SALVATORE ("SAMMY THE BULL") GRAVANO, 55, to charges of running an Arizona-based ecstasy-dealing ring; in a Brooklyn federal court. A former hit man for the Gambino crime family, Gravano had been on the witness protection program since he testified against Mafia boss John Gotti...
...White Age: 53 Occupation: United States attorney for the Southern District of New York since June 1, 1993 Family: Husband John White and a teenage son Education: B.A. and M.A., College of William and Mary; J.D., Columbia University School of Law Most famous cases: Brought racketeering charges against John Gotti; prosecuted terrorists responsible for bombing the World Trade Center...