Ronald L. Kuby
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Ronald L. Kuby Kuby
Mr. Sliwa, whose kidnapping and shooting provided the government with its most publicized charges, Ronald L. Kuby, a lawyer who had testified as a defense witness. Mr. Kuby told the jury that in a 1998 conversation, Mr. Gotti told him he was sick of this life and wanted to be done with it. Mr. Sliwa said Mr. Kuby's testimony hurt me more than those three hollow-point bullets and that baseball bat, referring to not just the kidnapping in which Mr. Gotti was charged, but a previous attack on Mr. Sliwa with baseball bats that he and prosecutors attributed to Mr. Gotti's underlings.