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Former federal mafia prosecutor Ed McDonald breaks down the legal backstory behind John Gotti’s rise, from the 1985 Paul Castellano assassination in Midtown Manhattan to the Gambino crime family investigations that followed. McDonald explains how FBI electronic surveillance on Angelo Ruggiero and Castellano’s Staten Island estate helped shape major organized crime cases, and why early prosecutions of Gotti failed.
He details the three straight courtroom wins that built Gotti’s “Teflon Don” image: a weak U.S. Attorney’s Office case later linked to jury tampering, a Queens wallet-theft case that collapsed when the witness backed off, and a Manhattan DA case tied to a labor union extortion allegation. McDonald also discusses the Justice Department strike force, the Ravenite Social Club wiretaps, Time magazine media attention, and the investigations that eventually contributed to Gotti’s conviction after the strike forces merged into the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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