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Mafia man betrays oath, testifies against boss Gotti
NEW YORK — Violating a Mafia loyalty oath sealed in blood, John Gotti's former right-hand man testified Monday that Gotti plotted the that made Gotti the boss of the Gambino family. Gambino waited around the corner as the job was done.
The Associated Press
Some Gambino family members felt that Castellano had become too greedy and was selling out the family for his own basic businesses, Gravano said.
Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, Gotti's alleged underboss, became the highest-ranking member of the Gambino family to turn government witness. His testimony was to resume yesterday at Gotti's murder-racketeering trial.
Gravano's first day on the stand focused largely on the cornerstone of the government's case against Gotti: the 1985 slayings of then-Gambino boss Paul "Big Paul" Castellano and Castello's driver and bodyguard, Thomas Bilotti.
"We decided to act," Gravano said.
Gravano, the 46-year-old career hoodlum and "made member" of the Gambino family, also described a life of crime, admitting to 19 murders and a list of other crimes. He also told the jury about his induction into the
nation's most powerful crime organization in a 1976 ritual conducted by Castellano.
Castellano pricked Gravano's trigger finger and dripped blood onto a picture of a saint, which was then set on fire. Gravano testified.
"He told me that if I should ever divulge any of the secrets of this organization my soul should burn like this saint." Gravano said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gleeson asked Gravano if it would be fair to say that Gravano was violating his oath by cooperating with the government.
"Yes."Gravanoreplied.
"We discussed where we were going to go on the piece of work the next day. We discussed who the shooters would be, what positions they would take," he said. "The plan was to kill him at Sparks Stake House."
Gravano said that the night before the hit, he, Gotti and other mobsters met at Gravano's Brooklyn office.
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Gravano, a short, stocky man with a broad face and slicked-back hair, often glanced toward the defense table. A smirking Goliistening closely.
The next day, the group assembled in a park a mile from the Manhattan restaurant, armed with guns and
walkie-talkies, Gravano said.
As four shooters and four backups took their posts outside the restaurant, Gravano and Gotti waited in a car around the corner, he said.
"We had Sparks Steak House sand-wiched in," the witness said.
Security was tight for Gravano's appearance in Brooklyn's federal court. U.S. marshals and FBI agents lined the courtroom, which was filled to capacity with Gotti's friends, law enforcement authorities, spectators and reporters.
Strict searches were conducted at entrances, and a bevy of police were posted at the back door, where Gravano slined inside.
During Gravano's more than two hours on the stand, Gotti's associates, who filled the first two rows on one side of the courtroom, looked on stonefaced as Gravano betrayed the Mafia oath of "omerta," or silence.
According to government surveillance tapes, Gotti considered Gravano a trusted friend and wanted him to take over the Gambino leadership if Gotti was jailed.
However, Gravano was arrested along with Gotti and co-defendant Frank "Frankie Locs" Locascio. Gotti and Locascio face life in prison if convicted.
Asian mafia tentacles stretch to six North American cities
The Associated Press
HONG KONG — Police arrested the alleged boss of Hong Kong's top organized crime family on April Fool's Day five years ago. Since then, the joke's been on the police.
Heung Wah-yim has been nicknamed head of the Teflon Triad, because charges against him have a way of never sticking. Police officials say Heung leads one of the world's biggest crime syndicates and has branches in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Atlantic City, N.J.
The reputed "Dragon Head" of the Sun Yee On Triad, was convicted of running an illegal organization in 1988 and sentenced to 7/2 years in prison.
A year later, the case was overturned by the British colony's highest
court, allowing Heung and six alleged co-conspirators, including a son, a son-in-law, a butcher and a Buddhist temple director, to walk free from maximum security at Stanley Prison.
The High Court rejected the verdict in part because it was not convinced a list seized by police of 1,267 people was a membership record of triad leaders. Agents say they again are going after the 35,000-member organization allegedly managed by Heung, a 58-year-old law clerk. Heung is known for his floral ties and large, square black-rimmed glasses.
"He's the perfect crime boss," said Mike Horner, the Royal Hong Kong Police officer who led the April 1986 arrest of Heung. "He fades into every crowd."
Heung refused to be interviewed.
Recent raids on investment companies and other businesses have netted more than 35 alleged members of the crime syndicate, whose Chinese name means "New Righteousness and Peace." One raid on a foreign exchange dealer yielded millions of dollars in securities that have been linked to drug profits, police said.
U. S. law enforcement officials say they are paying close attention to the operation.
Southeast Asia now supplies the United States with more than 50 percent of its heroin, according to official estimates, and much of the heroin is thought to cross through Hong Kong
Investigators say its activities include drug dealing, money laundering and alien smuggling — the fastest growing and most lucrative crime among Asian gangs — as well as extortion, blackmail and gambling.
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