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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow scared should Trump be of Mueller? Ask John Gotti or Sammy the "Bull."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/how-scared-should-trump-be-of-mueller-ask-john-gotti-or-sammy-the-bullTen South, the high-security wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, in Lower Manhattan, is, by design, as grim as any corner of hell. A half dozen narrow cells are lined one after the other, the overhead lights glow day and night, and the tiny window in each cell is frosted, allowing only an opaque hint of the world beyond the prison. Theres a slot in the solid cell door, but its kept shut most of the time, and so the prisoners unvarying horizon stretches as far as the four cinderblock walls. Only small noises intrude: the chatter of guards, the slamming of cell doors, the high-pitched moan of an inmate.
For over a year, stretching from 1990 to 1991, 10 South was the forbidding home of the triumvirate that still ruled the Gambino crime family as they awaited trialJohn Gotti, Frank Locascio, and Sammy Gravano. But in the first days of October 1991, a cunning plan began to take shape to covertly transfer Sammy the Bull, in the pre-dawn hours, from his inhospitable cell.
Today, nearly three eventful decades later, what makes this Great Escape more than just a faded episode from yesteryears gangland chronicles, but rather relevant and even instructive, is the identity of the man who ultimately had to sign off on the operation: then U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Robert Mueller. This is, of course, the same hard-driving crime fighter who, as special counsel, is presently leading the federal investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. For months, Mueller has been working his way up the Trump food chain, beginning with a guilty plea by campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and, more recently, a 12-count indictment against former campaign manager Paul Manafort. (Manafort has pleaded not guilty.) On Friday, after meetings to discuss a deal, the presidents former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, walked into a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., and pleaded guilty in an arrangement that reportedly includes his testimony against more campaign officials, possibly including Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the president himself.
It is, one person close the administration recently observed, a classic Gambino-style roll-up. To understand how Mueller might now proceed, to get a sense of the compromises hed be willing to make to bag the larger prosecutorial targets in his sights, its eye-opening to go back to the deal he cut with Sammy the Bull.
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It is not difficult to imagine the tortured debate within Muellers mind as he weighed the decision. He could allow Sammy, a man who had admittedly killed 19 men, to play for Uncle Sams team. Or he could go into the Gotti trial knowing that Teflon Donthe swaggering crime boss who had walked away from three prior trialscould once again get away with murder. Pulling him in one direction was a lifetime of rectitude: a lofty moral code passed on by his education at St. Pauls School, Princeton University, and the Marine Corps. And doubtlessly pulling him in another direction was a fair share of ambition. Hed be the man who brought down John Gotti, and the world would unquestionably be a better place for it.
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How scared should Trump be of Mueller? Ask John Gotti or Sammy the "Bull." (Original Post)
pnwmom
Dec 2017
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Sammy listened to the Gotti tapes, berating Sammy, etc. Sam decided revenge would
monmouth4
Dec 2017
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Very! I think the Trump bullshit stops at Mueller. n/t
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)2. Sammy listened to the Gotti tapes, berating Sammy, etc. Sam decided revenge would
serve him well, and it did..He said to the FBI after listening to the tapes, "Don't gloat guys" and then he began to talk. Good-bye John..
askyagerz
(776 posts)8. Wonder if he will use the same strategy here
Imagine all the infighting and name calling that might be in those emails. Just look what so and so said about you... I'm sure Mueller has just gotten crafter over the years.
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)10. You betcha. I think that is exactly what he will do...LOL. I cannot wait..nt
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,681 posts)3. What a great article that is! Very detailed analysis.
I inhaled it, and everyone should read it.
tRump is not a challenge for Mueller, and Mueller knows it. Does tRump?
kairos12
(12,869 posts)4. Mueller wasn't facing an adversary who could pardon everyone involved in the offense.
Big difference.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)5. There are legal experts who would disagree with you on that. But we'll see.
Also, the NY state attorney general could step in and prosecute, and Trump couldn't pardon NY crimes.
kairos12
(12,869 posts)6. Believe me. I hope I'm wrong you are right.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)7. A superior article here, mom, thanks for posting!
Sammy just got out in September of this year, looking none the worse for wear, eh?
Sam McGee
(347 posts)9. Got out in September . . .
. . . and he's still alive?!?!?!?