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In the early 1990s, she brought down John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime syndicate.
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In real life, as the hard-nosed U.S. District Attorney, she put away bad guys like mobster John Gotti.
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Castel has adjudicated cases involving accused mobsters (John Gotti, Jr.) and cases involving rappers (Kanye West) but never one with a party from the late Cretaceous.
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She also won high-profile convictions in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 terrorist attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa, and put crime boss John Gotti away.
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Holder told reporters, "If this bill becomes law, people like John Gotti, who beat the rap at his first trials, and John Hinckley and John DeLorean, who were also acquitted, could wind up with big taxpayer checks".
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Mary Jo White, former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has an extensive record of prosecuting white-collar crime, won convictions in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 terrorist attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa, and put crime boss John Gotti away.
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One son, John A. Gotti, is also behind bars, serving 77 months.
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His son, John A. Gotti, last year began serving a six-year federal sentence for racketeering, bribery, and tax evasion in an upstate New York prison.
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McLain was indicted in 1998 along with John A. (Junior) Gotti in a phone-card scam, but the charges were dropped in 1999.
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Jerry Capeci of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who has written several books about organized crime, recalls Gotti's aura.
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