Curtis Sliwa
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Curtis Sliwa Sliwa
The younger Gotti was charged with ordering the botched kidnapping and beating of Curtis Sliwa, the radio host and founder of the Guardian Angels; with loan-sharking; and with construction industry extortion, all as part of a broad pattern of racketeering dating to the 1980s. Mr. Sliwa, whose kidnapping and shooting provided the government with its most publicized charges, lashed out outside the courthouse after the verdict at the co-host of his radio show, Ronald L. Kuby. Mr. Kuby's testimony hurt him more, Mr. Sliwa said, referring to not just the kidnapping in which Mr. Gotti was charged, but a previous attack on Mr. Sliwa with baseball bats.