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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (11510)	7/2/2007 7:40:59 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Rudy indicted the heads of the five major mafia families and handled the prosecution all the way through the trial. You keep bringing up Gotti. Gotti had Castellano killed after he was indicted and took over the Gambino family. YEah, but the time he was indicted, Rudy had moved on to another job. In the Mafia Commission Trial (February 25, 1985–November 19, 1986), Giuliani indicted eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called "Five Families", under the RICO Act on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire. Time magazine called this "Case of Cases" possibly "the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943", and quoted Giuliani's stated intention: "Our approach...is to wipe out the five families."[30] The inital defendants included: • Paul "Big Paul" Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family • Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, convicted as head of the Genovese crime family[31] • Carmine "Junior" Persico, head of the Colombo Family • Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, head of the Lucchese crime family • Philip "Rusty" Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and six subordinates. Eight defendants were found guilty on all counts and subsequently sentenced on January 13, 1987 to hundreds of years of prison time.