The Nation - News from Aug. 9, 1989
An anti-drug crusader who planted a fake bomb outside reputed mob kingpin John Gotti’s headquarters was sentenced for harassment and ordered to stay out of New York and away from Gotti for a year. “It was an ill-conceived idea--or just plain stupid. It was just an attempt to disrupt drug traffic,” Michael McCray, 37, said after being sentenced at state Supreme Court in Manhattan. Justice Alfred Donati sentenced McCray, a free-lance photographer now living in Ohio, to a conditional discharge, exiling him from New York state for a year. He ordered McCray to get court permission to re-enter the state.
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