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Feds to Junior Gotti: We Give Up!

By Ward Harkavy, Thursday, Jan. 14 2010 @ 11:46AM
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John Gotti the Elder. Great mug shot, isn't it?

You thought the late John Gotti was a Teflon don besides being a dapper one? No way. He died in prison. Yes, he was buried in a beautiful suit, but only after his protective coating evaporated. But his boy? That's another story.

Now the U.S. government has finally given up trying to put John A. Gotti in prison. This is after four futile trials.

Who's dapper now? Not John A. "Junior" Gotti; he's pretty boring, at least in public. But you have to wonder: If the feds can't put Junior in prison for good, they certainly won't be putting any big-time Wall Street meltdown criminals in prison.

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