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Like the bugged conversations, the tax-evasion charges point to a startling degree of carelessness on Gotti's part. The former head of the FBI's organized-crime office in New York, Jules Bonavolonta, had made it no secret that he considered Gotti "the No. 1 target of law enforcement." So how could the don, who officially claims to be a salesman of plumbing supplies, have neglected to file tax returns for the past five years, as the government claims...
...Gotti prepared to spend the weekend in jail while awaiting a bail hearing, Bruce Cutler, his longtime lawyer, complained that his client was the victim of a government "vendetta." With police locking Gotti up "every 10 to 12 months," protested Cutler, he was serving a life term "on the installment plan" even though he had not been convicted. The vendetta complaint was an exaggeration. But Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gleeson, who will prosecute the case, has been working full-time for five years to get Gotti...
Nonetheless, federal prosecutors say they have new and more damaging recordings of Gotti conversations, once again from the Ravenite club building. The snooping devices were planted in an apartment above the club that was used for Mob business. Gotti, who can afford to hire the best electronic bug- detecting experts in the city, apparently considered the apartment secure. But this time, insists James Fox, FBI head in New York, the recordings are "crystal clear . . . Gotti won't be pleased when he hears them...
...latest indictment is similar to the one on which Gotti won an acquittal in 1987. He is accused of heading the Gambino crime family and, as its leader, of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law. But the 11 counts in the new indictment are more serious. He is accused of taking part in four Mob killings and conspiring to arrange a fifth. His organization, according to the charges, took part in illegal gambling, extortion, loan sharking, obstruction of justice and robbery. Three of Gotti's top aides, including Thomas Gambino, son of the late Carlo, the Gambino...
...four, Gotti alone is charged with masterminding the most sensational rubout in recent Mob history: the slaying of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino family, by three gunmen as Castellano left a Manhattan restaurant on Dec. 16, 1985. Gotti has long been suspected of having arranged the hit so he could take over the family. Police contend that Castellano did not trust Gotti and was grooming Thomas Bilotti, his bodyguard, as the next head of the family. (Bilotti too was killed in the ambush.) While Gotti is not accused of pulling a trigger, investigators say they have a witness...