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NEWS ABOUT: John Gotti

John Gotti stories: 5 news summaries

Victoria Gotti Spills Mob Secrets in Tell-All Book

Author describes ritual that 'made' Junior

Sep 25, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Victoria Gotti insists she doesn’t condone crime. But in her new tell-all book, The Family of Mine, Mafia don John Gotti's daughter compares mobsters to Robin Hood and his merry men, claims they’re better than corrupt politicians, and says she sees no difference between paying into a... More »

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(Newser) - A mob hitman who used acid to melt his victims' bodies has been sentenced to life, reports the New York Daily News. Charles Carneglia smirked in a Brooklyn courtroom as he listened to statements from his four victims' relatives, including one who called him an "animal" with a "... More »

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New York City • crime • murder • mob • Mafia • murder trial • John Gotti • Gambino crime family • Charles Carniglia

Snitch: Gotti Had Neighbor Dissolved in Acid

Gotti allegedly had neighbor killed as revenge for running over son

Jan 8, 09 10:21 AM CST
(Newser) - A mob informant says the body of John Gotti's neighbor was dissolved in a barrel of acid after he was shot on the crime kingpin's orders, the New York Daily News reports. John Favara disappeared after accidentally killing Gotti's 12-year-old son in a 1980 traffic accident. Police believe he was... More »

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New York City • organized crime • murder • Mafia • John Gotti • gangsters • acid

Feds Pinch
Gotti Jr. in Murder Case

Fla. conspiracy rap
ties son of mob boss to killings in '80s and '90s

Aug 5, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Gotti Jr. was arrested today on murder conspiracy charges related to three decades-old killings, the New York Daily News reports. A lawyer dismissed the indictment brought in Florida against the son of the late Mafia boss. "I tend to think they don't have a lot of faith in... More »

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murder • Mafia • arrest • John Gotti

Mob Nearly Iced Rudy in '80s

The federal prosecutor narrowly avoided earning a Mafia hit in the 198s

Oct 25, 07 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani could’ve slept with the fishes but for a 3-2 vote among New York’s five Mafia bosses not to put a contract on the then-federal prosecutor in the mid-'80s. Among the two younger hotheads who wanted to whack the GOP's current presidential frontrunner was none other than... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • FBI • assassination • Mafia • La Cosa Nostra • John Gotti

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