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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA December 2017 Vanity Fair article worth re-reading on John Gotti, Sammy Gravano, & Robert Mueller.
HOW SCARED SHOULD TRUMP BE OF MUELLER? ASK JOHN GOTTI OR SAMMY THE BULL
If history is any guide, Mueller will put up with 19 murders to get his mark.
BY HOWARD BLUM
DECEMBER 1, 2017 6:31 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/how-scared-should-trump-be-of-mueller-ask-john-gotti-or-sammy-the-bull
Ten South, the high-security wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, in Lower Manhattan, is, by design, as grim as any corner of hell. A half dozen narrow cells are lined one after the other, the overhead lights glow day and night, and the tiny window in each cell is frosted, allowing only an opaque hint of the world beyond the prison. Theres a slot in the solid cell door, but its kept shut most of the time, and so the prisoners unvarying horizon stretches as far as the four cinderblock walls. Only small noises intrude: the chatter of guards, the slamming of cell doors, the high-pitched moan of an inmate.
For over a year, stretching from 1990 to 1991, 10 South was the forbidding home of the triumvirate that still ruled the Gambino crime family as they awaited trialJohn Gotti, Frank Locascio, and Sammy Gravano. But in the first days of October 1991, a cunning plan began to take shape to covertly transfer Sammy the Bull, in the pre-dawn hours, from his inhospitable cell.
Today, nearly three eventful decades later, what makes this Great Escape more than just a faded episode from yesteryears gangland chronicles, but rather relevant and even instructive, is the identity of the man who ultimately had to sign off on the operation: then U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Robert Mueller. This is, of course, the same hard-driving crime fighter who, as special counsel, is presently leading the federal investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. For months, Mueller has been working his way up the Trump food chain, beginning with a guilty plea by campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and, more recently, a 12-count indictment against former campaign manager Paul Manafort. (Manafort has pleaded not guilty.) On Friday, after meetings to discuss a deal, the presidents former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, walked into a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., and pleaded guilty in an arrangement that reportedly includes his testimony against more campaign officials, possibly including Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the president himself.
It is, one person close the administration recently observed, a classic Gambino-style roll-up. To understand how Mueller might now proceed, to get a sense of the compromises hed be willing to make to bag the larger prosecutorial targets in his sights, its eye-opening to go back to the deal he cut with Sammy the Bull.
If history is any guide, Mueller will put up with 19 murders to get his mark.
BY HOWARD BLUM
DECEMBER 1, 2017 6:31 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/how-scared-should-trump-be-of-mueller-ask-john-gotti-or-sammy-the-bull
Ten South, the high-security wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, in Lower Manhattan, is, by design, as grim as any corner of hell. A half dozen narrow cells are lined one after the other, the overhead lights glow day and night, and the tiny window in each cell is frosted, allowing only an opaque hint of the world beyond the prison. Theres a slot in the solid cell door, but its kept shut most of the time, and so the prisoners unvarying horizon stretches as far as the four cinderblock walls. Only small noises intrude: the chatter of guards, the slamming of cell doors, the high-pitched moan of an inmate.
For over a year, stretching from 1990 to 1991, 10 South was the forbidding home of the triumvirate that still ruled the Gambino crime family as they awaited trialJohn Gotti, Frank Locascio, and Sammy Gravano. But in the first days of October 1991, a cunning plan began to take shape to covertly transfer Sammy the Bull, in the pre-dawn hours, from his inhospitable cell.
Today, nearly three eventful decades later, what makes this Great Escape more than just a faded episode from yesteryears gangland chronicles, but rather relevant and even instructive, is the identity of the man who ultimately had to sign off on the operation: then U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Robert Mueller. This is, of course, the same hard-driving crime fighter who, as special counsel, is presently leading the federal investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. For months, Mueller has been working his way up the Trump food chain, beginning with a guilty plea by campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and, more recently, a 12-count indictment against former campaign manager Paul Manafort. (Manafort has pleaded not guilty.) On Friday, after meetings to discuss a deal, the presidents former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, walked into a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., and pleaded guilty in an arrangement that reportedly includes his testimony against more campaign officials, possibly including Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the president himself.
It is, one person close the administration recently observed, a classic Gambino-style roll-up. To understand how Mueller might now proceed, to get a sense of the compromises hed be willing to make to bag the larger prosecutorial targets in his sights, its eye-opening to go back to the deal he cut with Sammy the Bull.
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A December 2017 Vanity Fair article worth re-reading on John Gotti, Sammy Gravano, & Robert Mueller. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2018
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Ninga
(8,277 posts)1. Thx for posting this! It's reads like a prelude to a Netflix series! I have fired it off to
my peeps.
I've been saying for a long time - Bobby Three Sticks has got this.......
Ninga
(8,277 posts)2. K & R. Nt
2naSalit
(86,794 posts)3. K&R!!!