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Right? but the prosecutor who had overseen sammy the bull s case, who product him, who had overseen him flipping to testify against john gotti, who helped do the deal to send him off to live this new anonymous life for the rest of his days in arizona, that individual prosecutor personally flew out to arizona to do the impossible. to persuade sammy the bull to do it again. to come back out of hiding, come out of the witness protection program and testify once again against another crime boss. this time against vinnie the chin. the head of yet another new york crime family. flew out to arizona. persuaded him. the guy did it. and that s part of how they finally put vinnie the chin away despite the whole bathrobe and slippers act. in new york city, they call him the oddfather. and now vincent gigante has been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. his lawyers have said he s mentally ill. he s a familiar figure on the ....
Down the street in bedroom slippers wearing his pajamas beneath a bathrobe. this man is vincent gigante and the fbi says he is the boss of the richest mafia family in the country. his brother you don t understand. his doctors say the man in pajamas is mentally ill, not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child afraid of the dark. he s crazy as a fox. he he has played this game for many years. gigante first came to police attention 30 years ago for taking a shot at a mob boss. vinnie, did you give yourself up because you were afraid? no, you re crazy. the last time gigante was arrested, the charges were dropped when his lawyers produced letters from psychiatrists calling him a schizophrenic with little chance of recovery. gigante has even been hospitalized from time to time. they insist he s a mastermind. ....
All these confident public pronouncements they re just about to get him for years and years. and years and years go by and they re not able to get him. what happened in the end is this. eastern district of new york, federal prosecutors office in brooklyn. finally 1997, so almost a decade after that nbc report, 1997, prosecutors in that brooklyn office finally came up with this audacious gambit to try to get vinnie the chin. and it took them out of brooklyn, out of new york, off the east coast altogether. they flew a prosecutor, a specific prosecutor. they flew him from new york to arizona. they flew him to arizona and they got sammy the bull out of witness protection. right? he had testified against john gotti. he was in the witness protection program. living in obscurity in arizona for years after his blockbuster testimony put john gotti away. one of the highest ranking mob guys to ever flip on the stand, ....