Newsday: Junior Gotti Free After Jury Fails to Reach Verdict
New York office Managing Partner George Stamboulidis was quoted in the December 1, 2009, Newsday article, "Junior Gotti Free After Jury Fails to Reach Verdict."
According to the article, a federal jury in Manhattan was unable to reach a verdict on mob racketeering charges against John "Junior" Gotti, the one-time Gambino family leader, for the fourth time in five years. Prosecutors have not ruled out putting Gotti on trial one more time on racketeering and two drug-related murder charges, according to the article.
Another retrial would be unusual, but not unprecedented. Technically, this trial was a separate, though overlapping, case from the three that ended in hung juries in 2005 and 2006, because it added charges of drug dealing and murder to the earlier indictments, according to the article. "Given the fact you have new charges, including two murders, that are serious, one would think that would influence the government," said Stamboulidis, Baker Hostetler's New York office Managing Partner and a former federal mob prosecutor.