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John Gotti: Curtis Sliwa
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Gotti became a near full-time defendant in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in the last year as the government tried three times to prove he followed in father John Gotti's footsteps. Gotti was charged with ordering the botched kidnapping of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who almost died in the 1992 attack.
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For years, radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa routinely denigrated late mob boss John Gotti and his cohorts as murderers, drug dealers, degenerates. His tone was so strident, prosecutors say, that Gotti's son ordered an attack on the motormouthed founder of the Guardian Angels.
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A judge refused to release John A. ''Junior'' Gotti on bail in a racketeering case accusing him of arranging a failed hit on radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa. A defense bid to have Gotti freed on $10 million bond "does not do enough to ensure public safety," a magistrate ruled.
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