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...Mafia operatives were convicted, including the leaderships of New York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...
...underworld's most powerful force is the quieter and more sophisticated Genovese clan, with its entrenched army of more than 1,500 "made" members and associated underworld entrepreneurs. "You keep hearing all this crap about Gotti being the boss of the bosses," says Richard Ross, one of the FBI's leading Mafia experts, "but Genovese has always been the country's most powerful family." Says Joseph Coffey, a top investigator at the New York State Organized Crime Task Force: "The Genovese gang more or less invented labor racketeering. I consider them the Ivy League of the underworld...
...John Gotti may get the headlines, but Vincent Gigante's Mob family is the dominant force in a $100 billion industry. -- Is the godfather insane, or crazy like...
...rose to become the reputed boss of New York City's Gambino crime family, John (Big John) Gotti survived a planned rubout by rival mobsters, a four-year prison term for attempted manslaughter, and a sensational eight-month trial in 1987 that led to his acquittal on racketeering charges. Last week he confronted what prosecutors claim to be the most formidable charges brought against the dapper reputed gangster since a murder indictment 15 years ago. Gotti claims he makes his living as a salesman for a plumbing company...
...Gotti was a few blocks from a club he had left in Little Italy, when more than 25 New York City police arrested him. Another phalanx of FBI agents and officers stood by, just in case. He was charged with arranging for a Hell's Kitchen gang called the Westies to gun down John O'Connor, an official of a carpenters' union local in Manhattan, in 1986. The alleged motive: O'Connor had trashed a nonunion construction job at a restaurant that the Gambino $ family controlled. "I give you 3-to-1 odds I beat this case," vowed Gotti, before...