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...Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk about films being made with laundered Mob money. A widening investigation is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mafia: Seems Like Old Crimes | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Court watchers have also detected a new virulence lately in some defense attacks on prosecutors. During the recent federal racketeering trial that ended in the acquittal of alleged Mob Boss John Gotti, defense lawyers launched savage personal attacks against Prosecutor Diane Giacalone; they even made wild charges that Giacalone had given her underwear to a prospective witness as an inducement to testify. Charges like that, says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, "represent a breakdown in the last thread of civility in a contentious adversarial process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Whose Trial Is It Anyway? | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...Gotti go free when other accused top mobsters took a fall? After hearing evidence for five months and deliberating for seven days, the jury asked to review a defense exhibit showing the criminal records of seven Government witnesses. Collectively, they had been convicted of nearly 70 crimes, including murder and drug trafficking. Apparently jury concluded that their testimony against Gotti was not believable. The jurors were tired, said Defense Attorney Cutler, of the prosecution's "regurgitating things said by paid witnesses who've lied in the past, witnesses who've sold drugs, witnesses who have killed people. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dapper Don Beats a Rap | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Gotti, who had been imprisoned without bail since May, returned to his home in Howard Beach, Queens, to savor his freedom. Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane Giacalone, the prosecutor, refused to speculate on why the jury did not believe her case. Said she: "We presented the evidence as best we could. That was our job. The jury's job was to decide whether the defendants were guilty. They did their job, and that is the end of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dapper Don Beats a Rap | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Jersey town asks how it could happen, experts fear that others will seek similar fatal attention. -- Senator Sam Nunn fights for strict adherence to a key arms treaty. -- Freedom for John Gotti, the Mafia' s Dapper Don. -- Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole has become a hot presidential candidate. -- Marian Wright Edelman is a Washington lobbyist -- for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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