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“Riveting…an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten
eighties and nineties. Suspenseful and multifaceted, The
Gotti Wars can’t be missed.” —Esquire, The Best
Nonfiction Books of the Year A “meticulous chronicle of good
triumphing over evil” (The Washington Post) from the determined
young prosecutor who, in two of America’s most celebrated trials,
managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti—and ultimately took
down the Mafia altogether. John Gotti was without a doubt the
flashiest and most feared Mafioso in American history. He became
the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashion—with
the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano in front of
Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan in 1985. Not one to stay
below law enforcement’s radar, Gotti instead became the first
celebrity crime boss. His penchant for eye-catching apparel earned
him the nickname “The Dapper Don;” his ability to beat criminal
charges led to another: “The Teflon Don.” This is the
captivating story of Gotti’s meteoric rise to power and his
equally dramatic downfall. Every step of the way, Gotti’s legal
adversary—John Gleeson, an Assistant US Attorney in
Brooklyn—was watching. When Gotti finally faced two federal
racketeering prosecutions, Gleeson prosecuted both. As the junior
lawyer in the first case—a bitter seven-month battle that ended
in Gotti’s acquittal—Gleeson found himself in Gotti’s
crosshairs, falsely accused of serious crimes by a defense witness
Gotti intimidated into committing perjury. Five years later,
Gleeson was in charge of the second racketeering investigation and
trial. Armed with the FBI’s secret recordings of Gotti’s
conversations with his underboss and consigliere in the apartment
above Gotti’s Little Italy hangout, Gleeson indicted all three.
He “flipped” underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano, killer of
nineteen men, who became history’s highest-ranking mob
turncoat—resulting in Gotti’s murder conviction. Gleeson ended
not just Gotti’s reign, but eventually that of the entire mob. A
spellbinding, page-turning courtroom drama, The Gotti
Wars “tells us in electrifying detail how the good guys
finally won, how justice triumphed over evil, and how Gleeson
himself was transformed by his long war” (Nelson DeMille).
A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young
prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed
to convict famed mob boss John Gotti-and subsequently took down the
Mafia altogether. John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and
most feared Mafioso in American history. He became the boss of the
Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashion-with the brazen and
very public murder of Paul Castellano in front of Sparks Steakhouse
in midtown Manhattan in 1985. Not one to stay below law
enforcement's radar, Gotti instead became the first celebrity crime
boss. His penchant for eye-catching apparel earned him the nickname
"The Dapper Don;" his ability to beat criminal charges led to
another: "The Teflon Don." This is the captivating story of Gotti's
meteoric rise to power and his equally dramatic downfall. Every
step of the way, Gotti's legal adversary-John Gleeson, an Assistant
US Attorney in Brooklyn-was watching. When Gotti finally faced two
federal racketeering prosecutions, Gleeson prosecuted both. As the
junior lawyer in the first case-a bitter seven-month battle that
ended in Gotti's acquittal-Gleeson found himself in Gotti's
crosshairs, falsely accused of serious crimes by a defense witness
Gotti intimidated into committing perjury. Five years later,
Gleeson was in charge of the second racketeering investigation and
trial. Armed with the FBI's secret recordings of Gotti's
conversations with his underboss and consigliere in the apartment
above Gotti's Little Italy hangout, Gleeson indicted all three. He
"flipped" underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano, killer of nineteen men,
who became history's highest-ranking mob turncoat-resulting in
Gotti's murder conviction. Gleeson ended not just Gotti's reign,
but eventually that of the entire mob. An epic, page-turning
courtroom drama, The Gotti Wars is a brilliantly told crime story
that illuminates a time in our nation's history when lawyers and
mobsters dominated the news, but it's also the story of a tenacious
young man, in the glare of the media spotlight, who mastered the
art of becoming a great attorney.
Osteoarthritis is a disease that has been characterised
historically by the focal destruction of cartilaginous tissue and
hence, is defined as such. However, recent investigations have
brought this pathology into contention with significant evidence
implicating subchondral bone in the disease's pathophysiology.
Early-stage primary osteoarthritic bone samples were harvested from
both presenting medial and and non-presenting lateral compartments
of diseased human tibia and were used to investigate the role of
subchondral bone in the pathogenesis of primary human
osteoarthritis. Significant differences in intrinsic tissue
stiffness and mineralisation were observed in all samples
presenting with clinically-defined, early-stage OA. Interstingly,
non-presenting lateral samples also exhibited significant
differences in stiffness and mineralisation. Hence, the presence of
an early, non-presenting stage of OA initiation was observed in the
bone tissue of these samples prior to overlying cartilaginous
tissue damage. In conclusion, the classic 'wear' and 'tear'
definition of this disease is no longer applicable to human knee
OA.
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