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Almost as quick as John Gotti takes over the Gambino crime family, he is facing two indictments. John Gotti just didn’t walk into Gambino Crime family, without his share of issues. Almost off the bat, he has an issue, that will be pressing. Wilfred “Willie-Boy” Johnson is outed by then prosecutor Diane Giacalone. Turns out Willie-Boy Johnson had been informing on the Gambino crime family for a decade or more.
How Gotti finds out, is at trial. Giacalone, outs Johnson as a rat in front of everyone, because she was attempting to force him to talk about Gotti. As a result, while Johnson was the witness he ends up clamming up, and refusing to testify. That would end up sealing Johnson’s fate. Giacalone would then attempt to bring forth another witness, whom she would out publicly as well, and that witness would refuse to testify as well. It’s the first time a prosecutor has ever outed a witness publicly.
As Gotti’s first racketeering case would begin, rather than focus on the crime Gotti was accused of, she would bring up a dissertation of the mafia, focusing on rather the history of organized crime, rather than the actuality of what John Gotti was accused of. It just proved, that the government didn’t know nearly as much about John Gotti as they claimed.
Bruce Cutler, who was then representing Gotti, did a great job defending Gotti. Even if Gotti had a great case to defend himself, and there was a lot of lies coming forth, years later, Gravano would testify that he paid off a juror, and that juror would be arrested and sentenced to prison for accepting a bribe($60,000) on behalf of Gravano. One might make a strong argument for why they bothered to bribe a juror, considering Gotti was winning the case at every turn.
Gotti would be found NOT GUILTY. There is a strong argument at 11-1 for acquittal, whether or not the Gambino’s needed to bribe a juror. Keep in mind, this are the words of Gravano. I find it hard to believe that 11 jurors voted to acquit Gotti, and somehow one juror was able to talk 10 others into voting not guilty.
On the back end of this, indictments within the family would force Gotti to make some changes to his regime, elevating Salvatore Gravano and Frank Locascio. This was also coming off the heels of Angelo Ruggiero’s narcotics indictments and there were several. Gotti had warned Ruggiero to knock off the narcotics, and Ruggiero never did, infuriating him. Ruggiero kept moving drugs, even after getting indicted in three cases. With Ruggiero’s case getting ready to begin, the Gambino’s would begin to look into bribing more jurors in the Ruggiero case. The Feds, and specifically the C-16 Squad, believed that the Gotti trial was tainted, so they took measures to ensure the Gambino’s couldn’t control another jury. The Gambino’s would be caught attempting to bribe jurors, and Gary Barnes who was a juror in the Ruggiero and Gene Gotti case, would come forward and admit to the Gambino’s attempting to bribe him. Jurors 8,4, and 12 would be tossed of the jury. The judge would add three more jurors to replace them, but because they only had 11 jurors and needed 12, the judge would call a mistrial. All ten defendants, would have to go on trial again for narcotics trafficking.
This was just the beginning of the problems Gotti would be facing not just as a defendant himself, but also as the alleged boss of the Gambino crime family.
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