FBI records indicate Gotti plot at '92 trial

By Larry McShane, Associated Press | March 25, 2005

NEW YORK -- Mob boss John Gotti, in his final criminal acts as a free man, desperately plotted to bribe jurors and intimidate witnesses at the 1992 Brooklyn trial that put him behind bars for the rest of his life, according to allegations in long-buried FBI documents.

The last-ditch efforts by the Dapper Don included the hiring of two or three private investigators ''to aid in witness/juror identification" while the trial was underway, according to the documents, released to the Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Jurors in the case were kept anonymous and sequestered in an undisclosed hotel because of tampering by Gotti in earlier trials.

''Members and associates of the Gambino crime family have been actively seeking to identify both jurors and witnesses in an attempt to influence their decisions in regard to this case," said a Feb. 10, 1992, FBI memo designated as ''routine."

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