NEW YORK — Jurors at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti raised the specter of a fourth mistrial in the case, telling a judge Thursday...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
Gotti IV: Another week, another circus. Mama Gotti yelled at the judge. The judge bounced two jurors. And a former prosecutor testified that he had never heard of legendary capo Sonny Franzese.
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — John "Junior" Gotti's mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade Wednesday after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son's r...
Posted 11.02.2009 | World
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York
And in the seventh week, the fourth trial of John Gotti Jr. became a farce. It happened on the day that the defense began its case.
nydailynews.com | Alison Gendar and Larry Mcshane | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
There's more infighting on the Gotti jury than at a gangland sitdown - and they're not even deliberating yet!...
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A would-be hit man has renounced the Mafia in a New York courtroom, surprising the federal judge who was sentencing him. Judge Jack ...
Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
A former mob hit man surprised a Brooklyn judge Monday by renouncing the Mafia -- and declaring that he's gay. In a scene right out of The Sopranos, ...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
In a mind-boggling turn of events, Sammy "Bull" Gravano is one of three mob turncoats that the onetime Junior Don may call to rebut testimony that that he supervised the murder of a Gambino mobster.
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — As his sister Victoria Gotti began a book tour like a celebrity author, John "Junior" Gotti sat in court, portrayed as a merciless ki...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — John "Junior" Gotti's anger toward a former close friend who now blames him for a trail of organized crime violence exploded Thursday at ...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York
"John Gotti Jr. was my boss," Alite said as he told of his all-out devotion to his mob boss and the good life they had during a decade long crime spree that began in the early 1980s.
Jerry Capeci | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
The feds pulled out all stops last week as they began efforts to send John (Junior) Gotti to the same death sentence behind bars that they served up for his dad, the late John Gotti.
nydailynews.com | By Helen Kennedy | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
John A. (Junior) Gotti became a Mafia "made man" on Christmas Eve 1988 in a shadowy blood ceremony that he compared to joining nobility, his sister re...
people.com | Michael Y. Park | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York
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Jerry Capeci | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
Since he began talking to the FBI in 2007, law enforcement sources say Alite has fingered more than a dozen men in blue for crimes ranging from bookmaking to murder.
AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — An aging hit man once used as an enforcer by mob boss John Gotti has been sentenced to life in prison for four cold-blooded killings....
Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
Mob stories continue to be such a hit with movie audiences that you can't blame Mafia sons -- whose dads did the crimes and the time -- from trying to cash in.
AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP) -- The federal government has decided not to seek the death penalty if John "Junior" Gotti is convicted. Gotti goes on trial Sept. 14 i...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
Federal prosecutors have soured on controversial FBI informer Lewis Kasman, the turncoat "adopted son" of the late John Gotti, as a trial witness in Gotti IV.
NBC New York | Posted 08.09.2009 | New York
That's stone cold. A day after John "Junior" Gotti complained about the agony of kidney stones, a judge ruled that the Mafia scion must remain jailed ...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
The credibility of FBI snitch Lewis Kasman, a key witness at the upcoming trial of John (Junior) Gotti, has been further sullied. Kasman is accused by a lawyer of stealing $10,000 he was supposed to use to bribe the lawyer.
Jerry Capeci | Posted 08.02.2009 | New York
Prosecutors are still focused on some very old, very violent - and pretty astounding - crimes that they want to raise at John (Junior) Gotti's upcoming trial, in addition to the three specific murders that he is charged with in his indictment.
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York