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Junior Gotti Trial: Closing Arguments Begin In Racketeering Case

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

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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...

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6 Bonnano New York Crime Family Members Plead Guilty To Racketeering In Florida

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Organized Crime, Racketeering, Florida, Mob, RICO Law, Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law, Mafia, Mafia Probe, South Florida, New York, Bonnano Crime Family, Bonnano, New York News

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One by one, members of a South Florida crew of the New York-based Bonanno crime family stood before a federal judge Wedn...

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Gotti Trial: Government Casts "Junior" Gotti As Evil Killer In Latest Trial

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

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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...

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Vito Pipitone: Alleged Mafia Associate Arrested While On Honeymoon In Honolulu

AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | New York

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HONOLULU — An alleged Mafia associate was arrested on racketeering charges while on his honeymoon in Honolulu. Twenty-seven-year-old Vito Pipit...

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Michael Forde, Other Labor Union Officials Charged In Bribery Probe

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Labor Costs, Michael Forde, Labor Union Bribery, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City District Council of Carpenters and Joiners, Michael Bloomberg, Conspiracy, Bribes, Labor Union, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — The leader of a powerful labor union that recently endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his re-election campaign was charged Wednesday...

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"Corruption Shtick" in the Garden State

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mafia, Bernard Madoff, Rabbis, New Jersey Corruption, Satire, Racketeering, Politics News
Eric Dezenhall

Philip Roth called it right when he said, "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper."

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Fight Crime, Ban Symbols

Suzette Standring | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Insignias, Latinos, U.S. District Court, Swastikas, Crime, Ghenghis Kan, Free Speech, Seizure, Drugs, Logos, Gangs, Los Angeles, Racketeering, Murder, Freedom of Speech, Court Order, Trafficking, Injunction, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, Fashion, Convictions, Symbols, Motorcycle Gangs, Mongolian, Mongols, Media News
Suzette Standring

A patch, label or logo does not a murderer make. Let's not start down a road where in time the government gets into the business of controlling tee-shirt slogans.

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