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...Brown" Failla has a strong track record in running the ; lucrative private garbage-carting business, but at 73 he may lack the stamina for big-time crime. Joseph "Butch" Corrao can cite success in overseeing gambling, restaurants and loan-sharking in Manhattan's Little Italy. Then there is John Gotti Jr., 28, cut from the same cloth as his father but widely disliked. Tommy Gambino, son of the family's founding father, once seemed a likely successor, but in February he pled guilty to antitrust charges and was ordered to abandon the trucking monopoly that gave the family control...
...luck to be a gangster in New York City last week. As the jury forewoman chanted the verdict -- guilty of murder, guilty of racketeering, 13 counts in all -- godfather John Gotti could only sit with his thin-lipped smile frozen while the underworld came crashing down around him. In guarded talks, the Gambino family's second string scrambled to regroup, shuddering with the knowledge that turncoats were singing, the feds were listening and more indictments were...
Throughout the 10-week trial Gotti gave every indication that he still < believed in his own invincibility. He wore the trademark suits and helmet of hair like armor, as though his natty legend would protect him once again. Overflow crowds craned for a glimpse of him; the tabloids kept up a colorful commentary, not only on the testimony about loan-sharking, extortion and murder but also on his choice of neckwear and the fluff of his pocket handkerchief. In court he made mocking gestures, blew a kiss at lead prosecutor John Gleeson and growled loudly at U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney...
...judge's conduct of the trial that may give the defense its excuse for appeal. First, Glasser barred Gotti's longtime lawyer Bruce Cutler from defending him. Then, in light of charges that the last two Gotti juries had been tampered with, he ordered that the jurors remain anonymous, identified only by number, and sequestered for the duration of the trial...
...ever indignant lawyers instantly called the trial "a glorified frame- up" and vowed to appeal. But whatever the outcome, John Gotti is now an unmade man. Many lower-rung mobsters did not like his high-profile strutting for the media; they were especially outraged that it was his right-hand man, Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, who delivered up his old mentor, as well as underboss Frank Locascio. "The safest place for John Gotti is in jail," observes Michael Cherkasky, head of investigations for the Manhattan district attorney. Gotti may hope to run the Gambino operation from prison, as Colombo boss...