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Daily Archives: May 1st, 2009

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Mob matriarch Victoria Gotti leaves Federal Court in Manhattan Friday morning, May 1, 2009, after a hearing for her son John A. (Junior) Gotti (below).

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Mama’s Boy  –Baby GottI

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Curtis  Sliwa       thanks Thomas Zambito

Mama Gotti’s had it

Why dont  you just kill  him now, the matriarch of  the Gotti clan yelled at judge Kevin Castel at the end of her  son John Jr  Gotti’s hearing in Manhatten Federal Court.

“They’re trying to kill him before trial”, she said .”These are the good guys. ? God help us”

Victoria Gotti erupted after Castel shot down Junior’s request to have a second lawyer assist in his defense when he goes  to trial on conspiracy charges in September

“They fight like little b——instead of men”, Mrs  Gotti said after  the hearing.

It will mark the fourth time Gotti has faced down the Feds in the past four years. All three pevious trials ended in mistrials

Gotti looked noticeably slimmer than his last appearance before Castel. “I’m feeling good today  “he told Castel.

Not that good said  his lawyer Charles Canasi who contended his client needs to receive treatment  for recurrence of kidney stones , which have become infected.

Radio host Curtis Sliwa  offered a remedy for Gotti’s medical condition

I’d be more than happy  to  break  up his kidney stones  with a therapeudic masssage, Sliwa said, flashing a coy smile.

Sliwa was shot twice in1992 as he tried to jump out a window of a cab whose doors had been rigged shut by Gotti henchmen, prosecutors say.     

The mob scion had grown testy over Sliwa’s on-air rants about the  Gotti clan after his father’s racketeering conviction earlier that  year.