REPUTED MAFIA MEMBERS INDICTED IN MURDER ATTEMPT ON TALKRADIO HOST
Thu Jul 22 2004 09:21:21 ET
After 12 years,� John Gotti Jr. has been indicted for planning the attempted hit on WABC Talk Show Host Curtis Sliwa.� 3 other reputed mafia members were also indicted along with him for attempted murder.� All were picked up last night,� except for Gotti who is still in prison for earlier crimes.�
It was June,� of 1992,� when Curtis was coming to work at WABC to do his morning show around 5am.� He got in a cab outside his Greenwich Village apartment. � A masked gunman was in hiding in the front seat,� rose up and shot Curtis 5 times in the lower abdomen,� while Curtis struggled with the gun.� The cab wrecked into the curb�.while Curtis crawled out of the back window bleeding,� hoping for help.� The gunman and cab driver,� apparently both mafia hitmen,� ran off thinking he was a dead man.
Curtis has consistently railed against Gotti Jr,� his late father,� and the Gottia crime family.� Earlier in 1992 he was attacked by four men wielding baseball bats and was nearly killed.� Then the second attack a few months later that placed him in the hospital for months.� Still Curtis has never stopped talking about the crimes of the mafia. �� The NYPD at the time investigated the case,� and dismissed the notion that the Gotti crime family was behind the attacks.� In fact,� Curtis reported at the time the first cops on the scene laughed when he told them the story.� The cops even forwarded a �love triangle� Theory that may have led to his eventual divorce from his on-air co-host at the time,� Lisa Evers.�
Today,� Curtis hosts the 7th rated morning show in New York City with Ron Kuby.�� Ironically,� Kuby has represented the Gotti family on other problems,� and tin 2000 had his own mafia hit man troubles.� Former mafia hitman Sammy �The Bull� Gravano had placed a hit on Kuby on two occasions,� after Kuby sued Gravano on behalf of the victims families who Gravano had killed.��
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