The Nation - News from Jan. 15, 1987
After five months of testimony, 9,629 pages of transcripts and more than 75 witnesses, the prosecution rested in the New York trial of John Gotti, reputed leader of the nation’s most powerful and feared criminal family. Gotti and six other men are accused of engaging in a crime enterprise that profited from murders, gambling, loan sharking, armed car robberies and cigarette smuggling over the last 18 years.
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