- when i came into office, my first big mob case, one of the people involved in it put out a contract to kill me for $400,000. then in the last year that i was in office, one of the same groups put out a contract on my life for only $200,000. [laughter] - you had diminished. - gee, thanks a lot, guys. - one of the things that i find, you know, somewhat tragic about the arc of his career is that a lot of what he said at the time actually made some sense. - crime is a complex problem. that doesn t mean that it s a problem that cannot be dealt with. it means that it s a problem that is going to require a lot more than a few quick fixes or a few slogans to really turn around. - clearly, he was advancing his own cause, burnishing his own fame. but there was always this tension between genuine public service and the purely
As someone who could get the job done. - when i came into office, my first big mob case, one of the people involved in it put out a contract to kill me for $400,000. then in the last year that i was in office, one of the same groups put out a contract on my life for only $200,000. [laughter] - you had diminished. - gee, thanks a lot, guys. - one of the things that i find, you know, somewhat tragic about the arc of his career is that a lot of what he said at the time actually made some sense. - crime is a complex problem. that doesn t mean that it s a problem that cannot be dealt with. it means that it s a problem that is going to require a lot more than a few quick fixes or a few slogans to really turn around. - clearly, he was advancing his own cause, burnishing his own fame. but there was always this tension
And conviction stage. - when giuliani won a case against the commission, he clearly set himself apart in the city as someone who could get the job done. - when i came into office, my first big mob case, one of the people involved in it put out a contract to kill me for $400,000. then in the last year that i was in office, one of the same groups put out a contract on my life for only $200,000. [laughter] - you had diminished. - gee, thanks a lot, guys. - one of the things that i find, you know, somewhat tragic about the arc of his career is that a lot of what he said at the time actually made some sense. - crime is a complex problem. that doesn t mean that it s a problem that cannot be dealt with. it means that it s a problem that is going to require a lot more than a few quick fixes or a few slogans to really turn around.
- when giuliani won a case against the commission, he clearly set himself apart in the city as someone who could get the job done. - when i came into office, my first big mob case, one of the people involved in it put out a contract to kill me for $400,000. then in the last year that i was in office, one of the same groups put out a contract on my life for only $200,000. [laughter] - you had diminished. - gee, thanks a lot, guys. - one of the things that i find, you know, somewhat tragic about the arc of his career is that a lot of what he said at the time actually made some sense. - crime is a complex problem. that doesn t mean that it s a problem that cannot be dealt with. it means that it s a problem that is going to require a lot more than a few quick fixes or a few slogans to really turn around. - clearly, he was advancing his own cause,
All of those mobsters in the year 2000. he did end up pleading guilty in conjunction with that case that they brought against all those mobsters, but they treated him in a very different way. after he pled guilty, they did not lock him up. in fact, they didn t even sentence him after his guilty plea for more than ten years. they arrested him, they secured his cooperation, they got him to plead guilty to something but then instead of sentencing him for that guilty plea, instead of putting him in prison for that guilty plea, they turned him back out into the wild. they let him go back into new york city so he could become an informant for the government about organized crime. he did that work for, again, more than ten years. it actually ended up becoming a sidebar minor controversy during the confirmation hearings for attorney general loretta lynch because she had been the prosecutor in brooklyn who brought that big mob case who d