Feds Try New Angle To Get Junior Gotti
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Coming soon to a courthouse near you: The John “Junior” Gotti Case — Take Four. Or is it Take Five?
While the feds have dropped their efforts to prosecute the ex-Mafia boss one more time in the kidnap-shooting of Curtis Sliwa, they have a new plan to nail him for some other alleged mob violence, including a 24-year-old murder, Gang Land has learned. Law enforcement sources say the FBI and federal prosecutors have their sights set on the Junior Don in the 1983 slaying of Danny Silva, a 24-year-old Queens man stabbed to death during a barroom brawl at which Gotti has acknowledged being present, but a killing for which he has denied any responsibility.
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