NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The New York racketeering trial of crime family boss John Gotti concluded with a hung jury on three charges, and acquittal on a fourth charge.
After deliberating nearly eight days in the six-week trial, the seven-woman, five-man federal jury reached no verdict on the most serious charge, the accusation Gotti ordered the June 19, 1992, kidnapping of Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels street patrol and a radio talk show host. He was abducted in a taxi and shot several times at point-blank range.
Gotti, 41, was finishing a five-year sentence for racketeering when he was charged with masterminding the Sliwa assault, profiting from stock schemes, extortion in the construction industry and loansharking, the New York Daily News said.
Sliwa told the New York Times after the trial Monday that prosecutors told him they would try Gotti again on the counts where the jury reached no verdict: the kidnapping charges for the attack on him, and racketeering and extortion conspiracy charges. Gotti was acquitted of securities fraud.
