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As Curtis Sliwa has done countless times on his radio program, he told a jury that how he had been ambushed in a cab rigged so the doors and windows would not open, then shot at least twice by hit men he believes were connected with John A. Gotti, who is the heir to the Gambino crime family. Referring to what he called hoaxes, Charles Carnesi, the lawyer for dealing the case Mr. Gotti, asked that that's something that you did quite often, interacting with the media?And then Mr. Sliwa replied yes to him. He said that to try to generate at the beginning for the group positive publicity, because we weren't getting any. Mr. Sliwa was testifying in Federal District Court in Manhattan at Mr. Gotti's retrial on broad racketeering charges that include the 1992 kidnapping of Mr. Sliwa. Curtis Sliwa told a jury how he had been ambushed in a cab and then shot at least twice by hitmen he believes were connected with John A. Gotti, the heir to the Gambino crime family. Mr. Sliwa was testifying in Federal District Court in Manhattan at Mr. Gotti's retrial on broad racketeering charges that include the 1992 kidnapping of Mr. Sliwa. Prosecutors have accused Mr. Gotti of ordering the kidnapping in 1992 to take revenge on Mr. Sliwa, who had criticized the Gotti family on his radio show.