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 11.16.2009 | New York
If it's an acquittal, count on plenty of crowing from the Gotti clan. If not ... well ... some throwing could be involved.
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The murder trial of John "Junior" Gotti – a case already marked by hysterical outbursts – took another weird turn on Tues...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Don't believe a defense lawyer's argument that John "Junior" Gotti quit organized crime with a sudden epiphany more than a decade ago...
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...
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.
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...
Jerry Capeci | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
Words currently being spoken about Todo Anastasio in Brooklyn Federal Court can be quite costly for him. If convicted at an ongoing racketeering trial, Anastasio, now 80, faces up to 20 years behind bars.
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...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The fourth racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti began Monday with the government portraying the mob heir as a maniacal killer an...
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 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