John Gotti

John Gotti & Racketeering
I am sure everyone has heard about the big mob boss John Gotti and the charges that were brought against him that has landed him in jail since 2008 while waiting for his trial that has recently come to pass as a mistrial. The charges brought against him was a vast racketeering conspiracy involving murder, drug dealing, bribery, extortion, loan-sharking, and two   Queens murders (George Grosso and John Gotterup). Racketeering described is broken down to racket. Racket is an illegal business, mostly ran as part of organized crime. Engaging in a racket is called racketeering. The most common type of racket is “protection racket” which is when there is a demand for money in turn for protection against the ones saying they will protect their business and if they don’t pay then they will instigate trouble if debts go unpaid which is a form of extortion. Another well known example is numbers racket, which is a form of illegal lottery. On October 15, 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act commonly referred to as the “RICO Act” became United States law. The law allowed law enforcement to charge a person or group of people with racketeering. Now, there is a statutory limitation on this law which is 10 years. John Gotti tried to say that the statuette of limitations has passed in his case since he claims to have left the mob in 1999. Beside from that, the jury was shaking in their boots. I know none of them wanted to be a juror on his case. I honestly couldn’t blame them either. One juror said she couldn’t see herself convicting him because she would be afraid for her life one the trial was over. I think I would be one of those jurors too. John has plenty of motives to commit all types of crimes. He was brought up in the mob by his own father. And when he died, the business went to the son naturally. The reasoning for committing these types of crimes is of course, money, and lots of it. I would have to say the connection...