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Real Life Organized Crime News #205241
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I thought that it may be a good idea to start a topic where we can continuously post and read up on any real life organized crime related news.
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Opening Statements Begin in Gotti Retrial
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer
Wed Feb 22, 5:27 AM ET


NEW YORK - Jurors were presented with two portraits of John "Junior" Gotti on the first day of his retrial on federal racketeering charges — a ruthless mobster and a reformed family man.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joon Hyun Kim told jurors during opening arguments Tuesday that Gotti was like his father, former Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, a merciless, violent mobster.

But defense lawyer Charles Carnesi said the son was out of the mob and ready to start a new and honorable legacy for the Gotti family's legacy.

A jury last fall acquitted Gotti, 42, of securities fraud but deadlocked on racketeering counts. If convicted, he could face 30 years in prison.

The most serious charge he faces relates to the 1992 kidnapping of radio host Curtis Sliwa. Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels crime fighting group, allegedly was targeted by Gotti because of his on-air rants against Gotti's father.

Kim said Gotti instructed underlings in the Gambino mob family to kidnap Sliwa and beat him.

On June 19, 1992, Sliwa got into a cab at dawn outside his Lower East Side apartment only to discover that the rear doors and windows were inoperable from within and that a gunman had been hiding on the front passenger floor.

He was shot twice and critically injured but managed to catapult into the front of the cab and out a window. "That was the price John Gotti made Curtis Sliwa pay for exercising his right to free speech," Kim said.

Carnesi said Gotti never ordered the kidnapping and beating of Sliwa.

Sliwa recovered and resumed his radio show and his attacks against the Gotti family. He is scheduled to testify.

Kim said Gotti joined the century-old Gambino family in the 1980s, climbing the mob's ladder from associate to soldier to high-ranking captain to street boss after his father was put in prison.

But Carnesi argued the government's case was built on the testimony of mob killers who made up lies to avoid life prison sentences and knew that Gotti's name could win them the best deal.

"If you're willing to say the name Gotti you can get almost anything," he said.

Carnesi said Gotti initially was under the spell of his larger-than-life father, but decided to reject organized crime when he pleaded guilty to other racketeering charges in 1999, serving five years in prison and giving up $1.5 million.

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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205242
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Thanks, DC!
Hard to tell what's going to happen to Gotti. As George V. Higgins, the outstanding crime novelist wrote in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," "a jury'll do funny things." Gotti Sr. beat one misdemeanor and two felony raps, to the seeming cheers of New Yorkers. But, despite his folk-hero status, he was convicted in the Castellano murder trial--even though Castellano himself wasn't exactly a pillar of the community, and that the top witness against him was Da Bull, second-in-command turned rat, and a confesses "serial murderer" to boot. Go figure...


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205243
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the top witness against him was Da Bull, second-in-command turned rat, and a confesses "serial murderer" to boot. Go figure...
You know what always got me about "Da Bull?" I remember following the trial when he was testifying against Gotti, he once said ( and I am paraphrasing here ) " I lost respect for John when he brought his own son into the life. What father would willingly bring his own son into this life?"

Then years later, when he was in the witness protection program and living in Arizona, what happens? He gets busted for running an ecstacy drug ring and who does he have involved in the distribution? His son. What a hypocrite.


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205244
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Sinatra photos aired in Mafia case retrial


A 1970s picture showing Frank Sinatra with a collection of mobsters in the largest US mafia family was entered into evidence yesterday in the racketeering retrial of John "Junior" Gotti.

The photograph was introduced by Assistant US Attorney Michael McGovern as the prosecutor questioned Gotti's one-time closest confidant, Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo.
DiLeonardo, considered a key prosecution witness, took the stand in New York City a day after the government in its opening statement promised to uncloak the mob of the romanticised image some people possess of it.

Yet McGovern introduced the photograph showing Sinatra with former Gambino crime family head Carlos Gambino, who led the family until he died in 1976.

DiLeonardo, who said he was inducted into the Gambino family with Gotti on Christmas Eve 1988, said Gotti was put in charge but told to keep a low profile after his father was sent to prison in 1992, where he died a decade later.

DiLeonardo estimated Gotti received at least $100,000 from an extortion of a strip club, and said he'd paid Gotti up to $2.7 million that the Gambino family extorted from the construction industry.

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Maybe I am missing something here, but what in the world does an old picture of Carlo Gambino, other hoods and Sinatra have to do with this trial and John Gotti Jr.?


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205245
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Reputed Genovese Crime Boss Charged
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 23

NEW YORK - The reputed acting boss of the city's most powerful Mafia family and 31 other alleged mob figures were charged Thursday with a host of underworld crimes, including a hit that prosecutors say was ordered by the don from behind bars.
The charges deliver "an absolute body blow" to the Genovese family, said FBI Assistant Director Mark J. Mershon. He said 30 people had been arrested.

The indictment accuses the defendants of engaging in money laundering, drug trafficking, extortion, gun running and murder for more than a decade.

Liborio S. "Barney" Bellomo, who prosecutors say became boss upon the 1992 arrest of Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, was accused of authorizing from prison the 1998 killing of mobster Ralph Coppola. Bellomo is serving a 10-year sentence for extortion.

Prosecutors disclosed Thursday that the message sanctioning the hit was carried by Bellomo's lawyer, Peter J. Peluso. Peluso pleaded guilty last summer to racketeering and has agreed to cooperate against his former client.

The arrests follow a three-year investigation into the family's activities in the Bronx, Harlem and the Westchester County suburbs north of the city.

Gigante, the former Genovese family boss, was dubbed "The Oddfather" for wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers in a crazy act that kept him out of prison for many years. He died in December at age 77 of natural causes.

The charges were unsealed in the same courthouse where John "Junior" Gotti, son of the late boss of the Gambino family, was on trial. He is accused of having radio host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa kidnapped in retaliation for Sliwa's on-air rants against Gotti's father.

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Sure is a lot of Mafia news coming out of New York these days.


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205246
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[You know what always got me about "Da Bull?" I remember following the trial when he was testifying against Gotti, he once said ( and I am paraphrasing here ) " I lost respect for John when he brought his own son into the life. What father would willingly bring his own son into this life?"

Then years later, when he was in the witness protection program and living in Arizona, what happens? He gets busted for running an ecstacy drug ring and who does he have involved in the distribution? His son. What a hypocrite.


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Yeah, Da Bull--a regular Paragon of Virtue and Family Values. :p


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[b]Sinatra photos aired in Mafia case retrial


A 1970s picture showing Frank Sinatra with a collection of mobsters in the largest US mafia family was entered into evidence yesterday in the racketeering retrial of John "Junior" Gotti.

Maybe I am missing something here, but what in the world does an old picture of Carlo Gambino, other hoods and Sinatra have to do with this trial and John Gotti Jr.?


Don Cardi [/b]
That photo has been published more often than Washington Crossing the Delaware. :rolleyes:
The funny thing is, there were probably more gangsters in the ringside seats of a typical Don Rickles or Dean Martin nightclub appearance than in that famous Sinatra pose.


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205248
02/25/06 02:43 PM
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From today's Toronto Sun:

"Canadian Cops: Pair Had No Mob Links

Rob Lamberti
Toronto Sun

The Woodbridge couple murdered in a tony Mexican resort were not known to organized crime invesigators in Canada.

Police sources say they have never heard of Domenico Ianeiro, 59 and his wife Annunziata, 55, until they were murdered in their hotel room at the Barcelo Baya Beach Resort.

'Nothing, nothing at all,' the source said of the amount of information Canadian police have on the victims, who have no records.

Mob expert Antonio Nicaso, with risk consulting company Soave Strategy Group, agreed the slayings aren't related to organized crime.

Nicaso fears Mexican authorities, who have been telling reporters that the slayings were a planned hit, are following the wrong paths in their hunt for suspects.

'I don't think this is a mob hit,' he said. 'Why did they use a kitchen knife? The Mafia is capable (of getting) a gun down there and killing them.'"



Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205249
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Quote:
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[quote]Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[b] [b]Sinatra photos aired in Mafia case retrial



A 1970s picture showing Frank Sinatra with a collection of mobsters in the largest US mafia family was entered into evidence yesterday in the racketeering retrial of John "Junior" Gotti.

Maybe I am missing something here, but what in the world does an old picture of Carlo Gambino, other hoods and Sinatra have to do with this trial and John Gotti Jr.?


Don Cardi [/b]
That photo has been published more often than Washington Crossing the Delaware. :rolleyes:
The funny thing is, there were probably more gangsters in the ringside seats of a typical Don Rickles or Dean Martin nightclub appearance than in that famous Sinatra pose. [/b][/quote]You've got a point there Turnbull I've seen that infamous photo more times than I can count. Like Don Cardi stated earlier I also have no idea what a photo that's at least over 20 years old has to do with the modern day trial of Jr Gotti.


Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205250
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COSTA'S TARTAN MAFIA
Feb 26th

Some of Scotland's major gangsters have fled to Spain seeking sanctuary.

RICHARD HAYES

HAYES, 56, is the self-styled Godfather of the Costa's Tartan Mafia. He built a huge fortune from his Fuengirola base.

Chief Inspector Francisco Lara, of the local drugs squad, said: "He is as clever as they come. He lives and breathes drug smuggling."

In 2002, Hayes was nabbed by police over a £3.6million cannabis bust.

JAMES RAE

RAE is a former mercenary who grew too big for Scotland.
The 56-year-old - known as Missile Jim - spent 10 years carving out a drugs empire from his penthouse in Fuengirola. He fled Britain in the mid-80s to escape car theft and weapons charges. Rae smuggled drugs and guns across the world using luxury motors as a cover.


TONY McVEY

McVEY was the ruthless leader of one of Scotland's biggest supply rings before fleeing to Spain. The scar-faced 44-year-old now spends his time in his luxury villa near Palma Nova on Majorca. He built a crime empire on Glasgow's club scene. In 1994, he was named in a High Court trial as the Mr Big behind a £14million heroin seizure.

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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205251
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Wow, haven't heard too much about the Scottish Mafia. I knew there were some Syndicate types in England and whatnot and Northern Ireland with the IRA operating as a type of Mob, but not Scotland. Alright, how many countries is that now? Either Italian or Indigenous/multi cultural organized crime groups operate in Italy, The United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England, Spain, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Japan, China, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, Israel/Palestine, Australia...probably many more countries too.



Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205252
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Lie detector tests for 'Mafia Cops' witness at issue


BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO
NEWSDAY STAFF WRITER

February 28, 2006


A key witness against the "Mafia Cops" gave deceptive and troublesome answers in lie detector tests, and defense attorneys will be allowed to raise questions about the issue in the trial to start next week, according to court records.

Information about problems in the lie detector results for the witness, convicted drug smuggler Burton Kaplan, 71, was disclosed Monday in a letter filed by prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court. The letter indicated that Kaplan harbored a desire to hurt or intimidate someone who testified against him but gave "deceptive" or "inconclusive" answers when questioned about it by the FBI in 2005.

The document was originally filed under seal but was revealed Monday during a pretrial hearing in the case of ex-detectives Louis Eppolito, 57, and Stephen Caracappa, 64. Both are under indictment for being paid hitmen for the Luchese crime family in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors argued that the polygraph results weren't admissible under federal law. Judge Jack B. Weinstein agreed and ruled Monday that test results couldn't be introduced, but he is allowing defense attorneys to question Kaplan on the witness stand about his desire to intimidate or threaten the witness.

Defense attorneys Bruce Cutler, who is defending Eppolito, and Edward Hayes, who is representing Caracappa, couldn't be reached for comment on the ruling late Monday.

Kaplan, who was sentenced in early 1998 to 20 years in prison for his conviction on a marijuana smuggling conspiracy, decided to become a federal witness in 2004 and gave evidence against Eppolito and Caracappa. When Kaplan was about to be brought into the federal witness security program, he was put through three polygraph interviews by the FBI. But, according to the court records, problems developed when the FBI examiner questioned Kaplan about whether he was entering the program to locate, harm or threaten any other witness.

Though Kaplan responded in the negative, the FBI examiner found that on two occasions during a Feb. 25, 2005, examination, Kaplan's answers were "inconclusive" regarding deception, the government letter said. Then on March 4, 2005, the same questions drew answers that the examiner said were "indicative of deception," prosecutors said.

After the February examination Kaplan admitted that he held a grudge against Robert Molini, a witness who he said testified falsely against him in the 1997 trial, prosecutors said. On April 5, 2005, Kaplan was given a final exam by the FBI and passed, court records show.

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In case anyone doesn't know or remember, Louis Eppolito had a bit part in the movie "Goodfellas."


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News #205253
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What do you think about them Don Cardi?

Do you believe that Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito are guilty?


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What do you think about them Don Cardi?

Do you believe that Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito are guilty?
From what I've read about this, yes I do. However what I think based on the media stories and what transpires in that courtroom are two totally different things.


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You're off the jury then, DC.


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You're off the jury then, DC.


Truthfully Plaw, if I was being considered as a juror for this trial, I would ask to be excused because I really do feel that these guys were rogue cops who were involved with the mob.


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Here is an article giving an account of Curtis Sliwa's testimony At John Jr. Gotti's trial

Sliwa's gripping tale of survival

BY THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


When all had seemed lost, a whoosh of air gave Curtis Sliwa hope that he just might live.
He'd already been shot, once in the leg and again in the abdomen, after a masked gunman popped up from the passenger seat of the cab he'd just hailed, pointing a silver-plated .38 revolver at him.

"Take this, you son of a bitch," the gunman screamed.

The handles to the cab's rear doors had been ripped off and the windows were rigged shut. But as the yellow cab sped down an East Village street in the early morning of June 19, 1992, it turned violently, thrusting the Guardian Angels leader against a rear door. He felt a gust of air come from the front passenger-side window.

Using the back seat as a launching pad, Sliwa lunged for the window, elbowing alleged gunman Michael Yannotti out of the way.

"I felt that was my only chance or I would die in that cab," he told jurors yesterday at John A. (Junior) Gotti's retrial on kidnapping and extortion charges in Manhattan Federal Court. "I didn't have much energy left. That was it, do or die for me."

Halfway out the window, Sliwa felt a tugging at his belt as the gunman tried to keep him inside. Just then the bumper of a parked car caught his red and white Guardian Angels shirt and pulled him out, his head banging against the pavement, he testified.

"I felt like the straw man from 'The Wizard of Oz,'" Sliwa said.

Prosecutors say Gotti sent two thugs to silence Sliwa after the morning radio host made nasty on-air comments about his father following the Dapper Don's April 1992 federal murder conviction.

This time on the witness stand, Sliwa, wearing a three-button blue suit, was more subdued than he had been when first called to testify at Gotti's last trial, which ended in a hung jury in September.

"I had a lot of anger after 13 years," Sliwa said later, surrounded by a sea of red-jacketed Guardian Angels outside the courthouse. "That anger isn't there."

Gone were the confrontations with Gotti's first attorney, Jeffery Lichtman. At one point, Sliwa poured Gotti's current lawyer, Charles Carnesi, some water after Carnesi said he felt parched.

Under questioning, Sliwa, 51, was forced to admit that over the years he had staged a number of publicity stunts to get media attention for the Guardian Angels, founded in the late 1970s while the Brooklyn Prep High School dropout was working as a night manager at a Bronx McDonald's.

He said he once had his older sister pose as a mugging victim whose purse was returned to her by a Guardian Angel - $300 still inside. He claimed he'd been kidnapped and abandoned in a Jones Beach parking lot by a transit cop - a hoax he said he hoped would stop police from harassing his subway security patrol.

"It was the dumbest thing I ever did in my life," Sliwa said.

Sliwa also claimed that as he lay bleeding a cop mocked him, saying "Look at Superman now."

But Detective Steven Hayden, one of the first cops to come to Sliwa's aid, said it wasn't cops but passersby who were making the comments.

Gotti's mother, Victoria Gotti, took another swipe at mob informant Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo, who testified last week that her husband had a secret family and a love child. She wondered why DiLeonardo was offered a plea deal of 17 years in prison after he admitted his role in three murders while her son was facing 30 for a kidnapping.

She begged off questions about the alleged infidelities of her husband and son. "I think there's going to be a lot of truths revealed in the next couple of weeks," she promised.

Originally published on February 28, 2006

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I don't know here. He cannot postively identify the two guys in the front seat, and after being shot in the leg and the stomach, at point blank range, he was able to "launch" himself from the back seat through the front side window? Hmmmm.


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GREAT POST Don Cardi
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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She made Gotti gush

Don called love child real 'doll'

BY MAUREEN SEABERG AND DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Gotti grandkid Victoria Gotti at Uncle John's retrial.

John (Dapper Dan) Gotti spoke glowingly about his alleged love child in taped jailhouse conversations - calling the girl a "doll" and a "precious little kid," it was revealed yesterday.
The imprisoned mob boss ordered his brother, Peter, to keep an eye on the girl, whom they said was blessed with the Gotti family's good looks, leading mob expert Jerry Capeci reported on his Ganglandnews.com Web site.

"I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid," John Gotti said while serving time at the maximum security Marion Federal Penitentiary in January 1998, Capeci reported.

"You saw [her]? Cute kid, eh?" Gotti added. "Good kid. She look like I told you?"

Peter Gotti agreed that anyone could see that the girl belongs to the Gotti clan.

"I thought she was my daughter or a bigger version of my granddaughter," Peter Gotti said on the tape. "She's a nice kid."

Capeci reported the late don chatted about the supposed love child during a string of federally monitored visits with relatives as he served a life sentence for racketeering and murder.

The jailhouse chats came to light nearly a week after a mob rat testifying at the Manhattan Federal Court trial of John A. (Junior) Gotti claimed the Dapper Don had a secret kid.

Sources have identified the suspected love child as 19-year-old Meagan Grillo, the daughter of Gotti's alleged mistress, Shannon (Sandy) Connelly.

Connelly contends Meagan was fathered by her now ex-husband, convicted Gambino soldier Ernest Grillo - and says she and Gotti were just "friends."

Even though Gotti doesn't refer to Meagan by name in the tapes, there is little doubt that he is talking about a daughter from his alleged affair with Connelly, which was common knowledge among wiseguys and lawmen alike, Capeci said.

"When you know all the history, it's not too hard to put together," he said.

In the jail tapes, Gotti's gentle tone about the girl is a startling contrast to the bile he spews toward her mother, whom he calls a "pee-pee brain."

Seconds after John Gotti asked his brother to look out for his secret daughter, he orders him to convince Connelly, and the girl's grandmother, Rosemary Connelly, to stop pestering him for cash.

"When you see that other person again, that Rosemary," he said. "The daughter annoys me with these f------ letters and cards. She thinks we're like boyfriend and girlfriend again, you know what I mean?

"You tell her, 'Listen, I don't know if you know who he is or what he is, but he's a busy guy, this guy. He knows his obligations. He tries to meet his obligations, and all that. In his heart, he feels what he's supposed to feel in his heart.' She's disappointed. Where does she think this f------ money grows? You gotta tell her."

"I feel bad I can't do the right thing, but what am I going to do?" Gotti added.

Rosemary Connelly, 77, the longtime mistress of the late Gambino underboss and Gotti mentor Aniello (Neil) Dellacroce, came to the door of her Staten Island home yesterday and tore up a note left by a reporter asking for comment.

Minutes later, Connelly returned and slowly ripped up a newspaper containing an article about the supposed "love child."

Originally published on March 3, 2006

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I can't understand, for the life of me, what this all has to do with prosecuting John Junior! What does his father's extramarital affairs have to do with his breaking the law and being on trial for it?

All that this story has done is bring much uneeded attention on this poor girl's life. It's not her fault that her mother had an affair with John Gotti and that she was the result of their affair. I feel really bad for this young girl. They are dragging her name through the mud just to sell papers.

IMO she doesn't deserve this.


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Suspected Israeli Mob Boss Extradited
By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Mar 6, 5:32 PM ET



JERUSALEM - The extradition of a suspected Israeli mob boss to face drug charges in Miami and New York is drawing new attention to Israel's increasingly brazen underworld, where gangsters have bombed busy streets and fired anti-tank missiles.

Israel's mob turf is so dangerous that the State Department has issued a travel advisory warning Americans of the dangers of the infighting.

One top gangster, Zeev Rosenstein, was extradited to the United States on Monday for involvement in a drug ring that allegedly distributed more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in Miami and New York. He's expected to be arraigned in federal court in Miami on Tuesday.

U.S. prosecutors have called the short, squat Rosenstein one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers, and he's long been called No. 1 on Israel's most-wanted list.

The best known of Israel's underworld kingpins, Rosenstein has eluded convictions except for a single stretch in prison.

Showing footage of Rosenstein boarding an El Al Israel Airlines plane early Monday, Channel 10 TV called the extradition "the end of an era of Israeli crime" and "the final chapter in a 20-year cat-and-mouse game between Rosenstein and Israeli police."

Rosenstein, 51, has survived at least seven assassination attempts. Bystanders were not so lucky. In December 2003, rivals set off a bomb on a Tel Aviv street, aiming for Rosenstein. He escaped with scratches, but three passers-by were killed and 18 were wounded.

Accustomed to violence with its Palestinian neighbors, Israelis had traditionally felt relatively safe from violent crime. But in recent years, the mob wars also have people fearing for their lives.

Israeli Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi compared the mob families to Palestinian militant groups who have killed hundreds of Israelis in shooting and bombing attacks in recent years.

"The criminal organizations' activities have escalated and certainly undermine the public's feeling of security," Karadi wrote last year. "Our approach to these organizations needs to be exactly like our approach to terror groups."

A travel advisory issued by the State Department last week cited an October 2005 incident in which a bomb destroyed a Tel Aviv apartment building, killing three people and wounding five. "Such incidents in the past have involved the use of bombs, grenades, anti-tank missiles, and small arms fire," the statement said.

Arieh Amit, a former top police commander and currently an international security consultant, said violent crime in Israel is at its most dangerous point ever.

"There has always been organized crime, it's just that the level of their professionalism has developed. They are much wealthier, much more violent and much more daring than ever before," he said.

Amit said the Israeli police force has gotten smaller and weaker in recent years and has found it difficult to keep up with the sophisticated criminals.

Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said authorities have set up a joint task force of detectives, justice officials and tax authorities, in an attempt to catch the criminals on tax violations — the way Eliot Ness ultimately took down Al Capone.

"This is a long-term battle that requires plenty of patience. It won't be decided by 'knock out,' but rather by points," he said.

Most of the violence in recent years has allegedly revolved around rival families battling for control of lucrative gambling operations. Israel, with a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is also considered a major outpost of Russian organized crime.

The most public feuds, and most heavily reported, have pit Rosenstein and his ally, Assi Abutbul, against two rival clans — the Abarjils and the Alperons.

On Dec. 22, gangsters fired an anti-tank missile at Abutbul's car, next to his home in an upscale neighborhood near the coastal city of Netanya. The missile missed its target but frightened neighbors.

The saga that has captured the most public attention in recent months, though, has been the "Alperon affair."

On Jan. 2, an arbitration summit in the lobby of a hotel north of Tel Aviv turned violent as knives and guns were drawn, forcing hotel guests to flee in terror. Amir Mulner, an up-and-coming star in Israel's underworld, emerged from the encounter with a stab wound to the neck.

The alleged assailant, Yaakov Alperon — known informally as "Don Alperon" — quickly disappeared, along with his teenage son, Dror, who reportedly came to his father's rescue in the lobby. Police searched the country for two months before both Alperons struck a deal to turn themselves in.

Both father and son have since been questioned and released on bail, but the mob wars seem far from over.

"If the families don't resolve their dispute, scores will definitely be settled," Amit said of the Alperons.

Rosenstein's case is not the first time Israel has kicked out a wanted man. The late U.S. crime figure Meyer Lansky, who had a lucrative mob career in casino gambling and money laundering, was expelled in 1972, two years after he fled to Israel to avoid U.S prosecution on tax charges.

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I dunno..."Don Alperon" doesn't have the same cachet as "Don Corleone."

Actually, there's evidence that Lansky sincerely wanted to retire to Israel and become a citizen--not just to escape prosecution by the Justice Department. A good account is found here:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/lansky/israel_9.html

Lansky's case was political. Israel's Law of Return doesn't necessarily bar a person with a criminal record from becoming a citizen--only those who are likely to become a public danger. Lansky had been convicted only once--a minor gambling rap in Saratoga Springs, NY, in the early Fifties, for which he served a few months in the local lockup. The US Justice Department put heavy pressure on the Israeli Government to deny Lansky citizenship. They succeeded by greatly embellishing his record and by portraying him as a "threat" to Israel. But, as the article points out, Lansky had the last laugh on Justice.


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Gotti jury deadlocks in NY Mafia mistrial
By Christine Kearney


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge declared a mistrial in the case of suspected Mafia boss John "Junior" Gotti on Friday after deadlocked jurors were unable to reach a verdict for the second time in six months.


Prosecutors immediately said they would seek a third trial on racketeering and other charges against Gotti, whose late father was one of New York's most notorious crime bosses.

Judge Shira Scheindlin called the jury's day-and-a-half of deliberations "surprisingly short" but said "the jury has spoken" after it had sent her two notes saying the 12-member panel was hopelessly deadlocked.

A hearing was called for Monday at which a new trial date could be set.

Gotti's defense focused on the claim that he had given up mob life. He hugged his lawyers upon hearing of the mistrial and left the courthouse surrounded by a gaggle of reporters.

"I want to raise my children," he said. "That's all I wanted in life."

A previous trial also resulted in a deadlocked jury, forcing the retrial. The second trial rekindled New York's obsession with the Mafia and Gotti's infamous father, revealing accounts of bloody shootings and secret mob codes.

Gotti, 42, was accused of leading the Gambino crime family, extorting construction companies, loan-sharking and ordering a brutal attack on Curtis Sliwa, the founder of New York's Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol, because of his critical comments about the Gotti family on his radio show.

Sliwa did not believe Gotti had withdrawn from the Mafia, telling reporters, "There's only one way to withdraw from the mob and that's to be at room temperature."

The defense said excerpts from a videotape of a 1999 prison conversation between Gotti and his father proved the younger Gotti wanted to leave the mob.

Gotti's father, John "The Dapper Don" Gotti, ran the Gambino crime family, one of New York's "five families," until the law caught up with him. The older Gotti went to prison in 1992 and died there 10 years later.

Prosecutors allege Junior Gotti took over as the Gambino family street boss, but Gotti's lawyers said he withdrew from the Mafia upon pleading guilty to separate racketeering charges in 1999, for which he spent five years in prison.

Gotti remained in jail throughout the previous trial but was freed on bail once the first mistrial was declared in September.


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For some reason I just don't think that they are ever going to convict this guy on these charges. Two trial now where the jury could not reach a verdict on these charges.

Now they are going to go for trial number 3?


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Hmmn.....Either he got to one or more jurors both times, or he's managed to generate some sympathy. Going for a third trial has to be bad for the prosecution. Junior's lawyers will accuse them of a "vendetta" (no irony intended ). But potential jurors will be discouraged from serving, knowing that two mistrials preceded them. The voir dire for a third trial, if there is one, is going to be crucial--certainly the basis of an appeal if he's convicted.


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I subscribe to TIME and came across this article while reading it today:

Sunday, Mar. 05, 2006

Growing Up (Not) Gotti

A courtroom revelation thrills Mob watchers: Did the most notorious godfather have a love child?

By LISA TAKEUCHI CULLEN

Mob trials turn on family, with insiders spilling secrets they once vowed to take to the grave. The parade of turncoats in the racketeering trial of John Gotti Jr. have told of cold murder and dirty money and a celebrity kidnapping. But when Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo took the stand, he aimed his bombshell directly at gangland's most famous and famously tight-knit family. The defendant's father, he said--the legendary Mafia boss John Gotti Sr.--had a secret second family.

That statement, which drew gasps in the stately chambers of the federal courthouse in New York City, has triggered a frenzy among Mob watchers. One might think that the revelation of a love child belonging to a Mafia kingpin--four years after his death, no less--would inspire little more than a shrug. But this being John Gotti, obsessive subject of umpteen books, movies and tabloid tales, the mere existence of a hot scoop buried for so long is nothing short of miraculous. The peerlessly aggressive New York tabloids quickly ferreted out an attractive Staten Island mother of three comely daughters, the youngest of whom they speculate carries the Gotti genes. MORE BADA-BING THAN "SOPRANOS"! shouted the New York Daily News. RANDY DON'S RENDEZ-RUSE! whistled the New York Post.

The media feast was served up by prosecutors trying Gotti Jr., 42, on broad racketeering charges. Made the acting boss of the Gambino crime family when his father, known as the Dapper Don, was jailed for life in 1992, Gotti Jr. insists he has lived on the straight and narrow ever since he was sent to prison for five years in 1999 for racketeering. But U.S. Attorneys think otherwise. That's where DiLeonardo comes in. The convicted Gambino capo-turned-government informer claims Gotti Jr. continued to orchestrate Mob affairs from behind bars. He also fingered Gotti Jr. for ordering the 1992 kidnapping and beating of radio personality and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa in a New York City cab.

A courtroom-battle tactic led to the love-child revelation. When the defense claimed DiLeonardo's philandering had caused him to lose favor long ago with his family-focused boss, prosecutors lunged. Had not Gotti Jr. kept a secret girlfriend well into his marriage? Had not Gotti Jr. sought to emulate his father, who though revered as a family man kept a longtime lover with whom he had a secret daughter?

Gotti relatives have reacted mostly with fury and disbelief. "This is 100% ridiculous," Gotti's daughter Angel, 49, told TIME. "I'm not going to say if my father fooled around or not--I don't know. But he did not have a daughter the same age as his granddaughter." That granddaughter, UCLA freshman Victoria Gotti Albano, 18, is more tempered. "If it's true, she's my grandfather's blood, and she's welcome in my family."

For the alleged goumada (Mafia mistress) and her daughter, the suggested ties are anything but welcome. Until last week, Shannon Connelly, 49, lived quietly in a modest two-family house on Staten Island, a floor above her mother. Speaking to the reporters who stake out the house dawn to dusk, the divorcé denied that Gotti had ever been anything more than a "friend," begged for privacy and expressed distress for her daughter, a 19-year-old college freshman. But Connelly is no stranger to wiseguy connections. In their 1996 book, Gotti: Rise and Fall, Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain identified her as the don's girlfriend. Connelly's ex-husband Ernesto Grillo was her alleged paramour's underling. And her mother Rosemary has long been identified as the goumada of Gotti mentor Aniello Dellacroce--with Connelly as their supposed love child.

The oddest twist in the tale may be that DiLeonardo was apparently referring to an entirely different Gotti lover and love child. But the media circus is unlikely to move on just yet, what with such juicy new acts as a jailhouse videotape uncovered by Capeci of a 1998 conversation between Gotti and his brother Peter. On the tape, the Mob boss talks wistfully of Connelly's "precious little kid." "She look like I told you?" he asks his brother. "I feel bad I can't do the right thing, but what am I gonna do, you know what I'm saying?"

As Shakespeare sort of said, it is a wiseguy that knows his own child. But with Gotti in the grave, the only thing for certain is that he is still the main attraction. "They just won't let my husband rest in peace," fumes his widow Victoria. A godfather with secrets never does.


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The idea of a third Junior Gotti trial seems ridiculous to me.

His guilt or innocence shouldn't even be the issue anymore.

If the government couldn't get a conviction after two trials, it seems highly unlikely to me that the will in a third, which will then wind up being nothing more than a huge waste of taxpayers money.


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Mob-Link Trial Opens for NYC Detectives

By LARRY McSHANE, Associated Press Writer
Mon Mar 13, 5:17 PM ET



NEW YORK - Two retired detectives accused of moonlighting as hit men for the mob went on trial Monday, with prosecutors saying the men used their gold shields to kidnap and kill victims picked out by a Mafia underboss.
But a defense attorney said Louis Eppolito and Steven Caracappa were honest public servants targeted by mobsters intent on staying out of jail.

The mobsters "called each other tough guys, goodfellas, until the jail door shut," said attorney Bruce Cutler, best known for his defense of Gambino boss John Gotti, during a theatrical opening statement in federal court. "Then they wet their pants and called mommy — the government."

Eppolito, 57, and Caracappa, 64, are charged with racketeering, conspiracy and other charges for allegedly going on the payroll of Luchese family underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso.

"The two men were not traditional mobsters," prosecutor Mitra Hormozi told the jury. "They were better. They could get away with murder because these two men were New York City police detectives."

The men allegedly were involved in eight murders while working for Casso. In return, they helped him avoid arrest, warned him of impending investigations and committed killings for up to $65,000 a hit, Hormozi said.

The defendants listened intently during opening statements. The heavyset Eppolito leaned back in his chair, while the thinner Caracappa — known while on the job as "The Stick" — sat with a pen in hand for taking notes.

Hormozi told the jury how the detectives arrested a mobster named Jimmy Hydell in 1986, then turned him over to Casso for execution and a $30,000 payoff.

That same year, the pair allegedly also provided the underboss with information to locate Nicholas Guido, a mobster involved in a murder plot against Casso. The inaccurate tip led to an innocent man with the same name; he was killed in a hail of gunfire on Christmas Day 1986, authorities say.

Prosecutors say Casso referred to the former detectives as his "crystal ball."

Lawyer Edward Hayes, representing Caracappa, rubbed his client's shoulders like a cornerman at a fight while addressing the jury. The courtroom was filled with reporters, the public and the defendants' family, and Hayes said his client welcomed the scrutiny.

"The government is trying to humiliate him. ... Good! Bring it on," he said.

Caracappa spent 23 years with the New York Police Department, helping establish its nerve center for Mafia murder investigations before retiring in 1992.

Eppolito actually grew up in a mob family: His father, grandfather and an uncle were members of the Gambino family. The contrast between his police work and his "family" life was detailed in his autobiography, "Mafia Cop: The Story of An Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob."

The partners retired to Las Vegas but were arrested a year ago.


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Y'know, DC, Cutler used to be a prosecutor before he became the Mob's favorite lawyer--and in this case, the defender of crooked cops. Not unusual at all for former prosecutors to turn to defending criminals: the experience is essential. Cutler's good at making colorful statements that newspapers print. But if I were a big-time crook, I'd have gotten Johnnie Cochran before he passed away, or Barry Slotnick now.


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Quote:
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Y'know, DC, Cutler used to be a prosecutor before he became the Mob's favorite lawyer--and in this case, the defender of crooked cops. Not unusual at all for former prosecutors to turn to defending criminals: the experience is essential. Cutler's good at making colorful statements that newspapers print. But if I were a big-time crook, I'd have gotten Johnnie Cochran before he passed away, or Barry Slotnick now.
Well according to several lawyer friends that I know, becoming a defense lawyer is where the real money is.

Funny that you should say that about Cochran. After the O.J. trial, my wife was livid and was disgusted with Cochran. I remember saying to her " I'll tell you what, if I ever got into any legal trouble I'd hire Cochran in a second!"

While one may not have agreed with his courtroom tactics and antics, the bottom line is that he got the job that he was paid to do, done.


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One of my lawyer friends once told me that there was no money in doing criminal law because 99 percent of defendents are deadbeats and s***heels who never pay anyway. That's one of the reasons, I guess, that only a small handful of lawyers--Slotnick, Cutler, Shargel, Kuby, Kreiger, and not many others--seem to be associated with big-time Mob cases.
I believe that Cochran was known as one of LA's top criminal lawyers--if not the top--before the OJ case. But OJ catapulted him to national prominence, which is why he moved to NYC.


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