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Search results for "John Gotti" ...
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GOTTI
The reporter spends four years meeting with John Gotti, the son of the most famous gangster of the modern era, with the purpose of learning more about the true working of the mob.
Tags: mob; gang; Gotti; John Gotti; mafia; federal court
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High Life on a Scrap Heap: Gotti in-law Agnello is a Junkyard Midas
This New York Daily News investigation finds that "Carmine Agnello quietly built a $60 million empire in the New York City scrap industry by banking on his association with two powerful forces - the Gambino crime family and Caterpillar, one of the most recognized name in heavy machinery." The story reveals that Agnello is a "son-in-law" of jailed Gambino crime boss John Gotti" and "the feds say mob muscle is behind it all." The investigation has started with Agnello's arrest "on charges that he hired an associate to firebomb a competitor's business ... run by undercover New York City police officers."
Tags: scrap; Mafia; metal industry; shredding business; Caterpillar; Gambino family
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The Gotti Tapes
In this two-part series, two veteran crime reporters conclude decades of investigations into the Italian-American Mafia with the scoop they had been waiting for: an interview with the godfather himself, John Gotti, suffering from cancer in a federal prison.
Tags: mob underworld Marion Ill. background celebrity criminal
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"Mobster reveals life in Valley" and "Crime ring witnesses being killed"
The Arizona Republic reports "two stories on organized crime. The first involves Mafia enforcer Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, who had moved to Arizona and launched a secret life. The second story is about a Mexican Mafia syndicate headed by the Cisneros brothers, who escaped prosecution due to the murders of government witnesses."
Tags: FOIA; Department of Motor Vehicles; DMV; Registrar of Contractors; Office State Corporation Commission; unsolved homicide; FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations; Salvatore Gravano; New York Mob; John Gotti; hit man; La Cosa Nostra; Witness Protection Program
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In the name of the son
When mobster John Gotti went to prison, he left the upkeep of the Gambino crime family to his son. But after alledgedly shaking down strippers and junkies, Junior's got his own rep, and his own indictment to go with it.
Tags: Mob RICO Gambling
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No title (id: 10112)
Village Voice shows how the mafia is alive and well in New York City, despite claims by federal prosecutors that the mob had been broken by the conviction of John Gotti, Sept. 21, 1993.
Tags: NY Bastone 7 pages
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No title (id: 8874)
New York Newsday profiles the key player in the New York City-based pornography business, who picked up the business when the former porn king was assasinated by John Gotti, April 18, 1993.
Tags: NY Fee
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Gotti, INC.
M Inc. magazine dissects the Gotti crime family's organizational chart; concludes the organization would make a telling Harvard Business School study.
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No title (id: 6715)
The Advocate (Stamford, Conn.) follows the reorganization of the Gambino crime family after John Gotti took control, June 4, 1989. * CT
Tags: Feddeli Megale
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No title (id: 4196)
Village Voice (New York) investigates how a small Queens plumbing company with ties to crime boss John Gotti managed to get more than $20 million in contracts with the city of New York, April 8, 1986.
Tags: NY