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   David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 13:09:25 JST David McMullin

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   The other murder charge was for Tommy Spinelli, an aging mobster who disappeared shortly after testifying to a grand jury in 1989. The rest of the charges I don’t remember clearly now, but they mostly had to do with corrupt control of the private sanitation business by one of the defendants.
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     David McMullin (mcmullin@musicians.today)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 13:09:26 JST David McMullin

     This was a RICO racketeering case with 6 co-defendants and various charges spread among them. The headline ones were three murders, including the infamous, very public 1985 killing of the former Gambino boss Paul Castellano and Tommy Billotti, as they rolled up in their car to Sparks steakhouse on E46th St. This was the hit that made Gotti the new boss.
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