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At Gotti Trial, Curtis Sliwa Recounts Getting Shot
New York Times ^ | August 22, 2005 | JULIA PRESTON

Posted on 08/22/2005 3:50:44 PM PDT by JRotten

Testifying against John A. Gotti today, Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, described in vivid detail being shot at point-blank range while sitting in the back seat of a taxicab 13 years ago.

Mr. Sliwa relived the shooting before a jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan, where Mr. Gotti, 41, the scion of the Gambino crime family, is being tried on racketeering charges.

Mr. Gotti is facing a 42-page indictment including securities fraud, loansharking, construction industry extortion, and charges of conspiracy to kidnap Mr. Sliwa. He was indicted in July on charges of ordering the retaliatory attack on Mr. Sliwa after the Guardian Angels founder denounced Mr. Gotti's father, the late crime boss, on his radio program.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: curtissliwa; gotti; mafia; organizedcrime; sliwa; talkradio
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1 posted on 08/22/2005 3:50:46 PM PDT by JRotten
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To: JRotten

I thought John Gotti was put in jail years ago. Is this a different Gotti? "The Dapper Don"?


2 posted on 08/22/2005 3:52:18 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

I think it's his son.


3 posted on 08/22/2005 3:53:57 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Zack Nguyen

The entire family are scum who should be deported.


4 posted on 08/22/2005 3:54:14 PM PDT by Clemenza (Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
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To: Zack Nguyen

John's brother Peter who took over John's place.


5 posted on 08/22/2005 3:54:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Dog Gone

Thanks. Where does his wife on the television show get all of her money?


6 posted on 08/22/2005 3:54:55 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: JRotten

curtis is a hero!!!


7 posted on 08/22/2005 3:55:09 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. -Churchill)
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To: Clemenza

I agree. I have to hand it to the FBI and our law enforcement apparatus. The mafia is a shadow of what it once was. Tuired old punks and small-time hoods.


8 posted on 08/22/2005 3:56:06 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

John Gotti junoir, son of John


9 posted on 08/22/2005 3:56:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Thanks.


10 posted on 08/22/2005 3:56:21 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

I'm not even following the story, but I think I know where mobsters and their wives get their money. ;-)


11 posted on 08/22/2005 3:58:09 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Zack Nguyen

Besides the dapper is dead.


12 posted on 08/22/2005 3:58:56 PM PDT by since1868
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To: Zack Nguyen
Thanks. Where does his wife on the television show get all of her money?

She in not his wife, but his sister. Victoria was married to another gangland thug. Victoria has taken back to her maiden name.

13 posted on 08/22/2005 3:59:30 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Dog Gone

see post #13.


14 posted on 08/22/2005 4:01:13 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Zack Nguyen
The bimbo on the TV show is the sister of the Gotti on trial and the daughter of the dead Don.

Her husband was in the chop shop business so there was a load of unreported cash flowing into her bank account. Somehow or other she was able to partake of these illegally gotten gains but only her husband is serving time.

Oh, she is also an "author".

15 posted on 08/22/2005 4:04:44 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: the Deejay

I don't think Victoria ever took her husband's surname. I read somewhere where she lamented to her father all the trouble she and her kids were in because they were "Gottis". But John Gotti Sr. told her she brought it on herself by keeping the Gotti surname, and not taking her husband's less infamous name.


16 posted on 08/22/2005 4:05:27 PM PDT by Joann37
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Those 3 sons of hers, need their a$$es kicked
to the moon.....and mom right behind them!

Hubby & I raised 3 sons....not one of them
ever said or did anything Victoria's three
say & do on a daily basis. Those brats of
hers are just WORTHLESS! And she has NEVER
had CONTROL of those brats!


17 posted on 08/22/2005 4:09:46 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: JRotten
Blowing Up Gotti
18 posted on 08/22/2005 4:16:11 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Joann37

You are right. Check out post #18.


19 posted on 08/22/2005 4:17:28 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: the Deejay

I think her persona is to play the victim. She's whines that the world hassles them because they're Gottis, and then plays the tragic mom on TV who can't get her kids to listen to her. But she gives them everything they want!

I actually watched a few episodes of this show, but I have no idea why. Just curiousity I guess.


20 posted on 08/22/2005 4:40:39 PM PDT by Joann37
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