My question to New Yorkers or those who closely followed the Gotti trials

[PCIntern]

Did the court have to be as concerned with juror intimidation and interference in the courtroom and outside as much for the Teflon Don as they do for this miscreant, tinhorn Mussolini/Al Capone? I’m certain there were issues but I doubt if unconnected individuals were a threat, but perhaps I’m wrong.

This is beyond the pale. These people are afraid for their lives from a guy who is running for President.

[Drum]

1. Social media et al has changed everything...this is no longer an analogue world.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Gotti literally engaged in jury tampering in his second trial - a juror was convicted of selling his vote

This was a federal trial, however - one of Gotti's acquittals.

[PCIntern]

3. Interesting...thank you.

[Prairie Gates]

4. The AUSA who tried the case said that he believed several jurors had been compromised

The one who was convicted of taking a bribe literally received $60,000 in an actual (not proverbial) paper bag from Sammy Gravano through the Westies.

The whole trial was a clown show, largely because the jurors were gotten to. The myth of the Teflon Don resides in that acquittal.

[PCIntern]

5. One thing about Teflon is that

Once it’s scratched then everything sticks to it.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Indeed...John Gotti spent his last years miserably, locked in a shithole, alone, with cancer

His brother Gene ended up doing almost 30 years when he could have been out in 10 if he pleaded. He refused (on Gotti's orders), so went down for the full 30. Both his boys went to prison. Here's the thing about Gotti: he was a fucking idiot. Brutal as all get-out, and that will get you places in those circles, just having the absolute balls to do anything. But in terms of smarts, planning, craft? A big dummy.

[PCIntern]

7. That's what the zphilly mobsters I knew used to say

And they were no brain trust to say the least