By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now stay tuned for a federal prosecutorial nightmare. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that “court officials acknowledged Thursday that information revealed by the Tribune appears to show that a member of the federal jury that convicted Springfield power broker William Cellini concealed two felony convictions.” Generally, a convicted felon cannot…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Italo Campagna was serving as a juror in Miami an ongoing federal criminal trial when he slipped the defendant’s father a piece of paper outside the courthouse with a telephone number on it. Later that afternoon, Campagna, 55, met with the defendant’s brother, who had contacted him, and arranged to meet…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York tabloids are having a blast with a jury dispute in the federal trial of mobster John Gotti Jr. One juror wrote a note to the judge voicing concern about a fellow loud mouth juror. “There’s more infighting on the Gotti jury than at a gangland sitdown – and…
