Five men facing trial on charges they were involved in the Gambino organized crime family are asking a federal judge to transfer their trial from Tampa to New York. ...more

January 19, 2009

The attorney for Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes said the ex-Tampa Bay Rays player expects to meet next week's deadline to pay more than $40,000 in court-ordered child support and alimony to his estranged wife. ...more

January 16, 2009

Mob scion John A. "Junior" Gotti should stay behind bars while awaiting trial on charges he was involved in three gangland murders and cocaine trafficking, a judge ruled Thursday. ...more

January 15, 2009

A judge today denied a motion from a Tampa man to dismiss an indictment accusing him of being part of a Gambino crime family conspiracy. ...more

January 7, 2009

A federal magistrate is recommending that a Tampa man charged with being part of a Gambino crime family conspiracy be tried along with other defendants accused in the conspiracy. James V. Cadicamo was arrested in August along with four other men charged with participating in a vast racketeering conspiracy under the umbrella of the Gambino crime family. At the same time, John A. "Junior" Gotti was named in a separate, similar indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Tampa. ...more

January 6, 2009

Attorneys for John A. "Junior" Gotti argued today that prosecutors — who were unable to secure convictions in three New York City racketeering trials — have unfairly moved the organized crime case to Tampa and asked that it be returned to New York. Prosecutors said the Florida indictment charges Gotti with felonies committed here, including laundering money from illegal drug sales, and that Tampa is a fitting location for his trial, scheduled tentatively for April. ...more

November 20, 2008

A federal judge will hear arguments this morning over whether the trial of John A. "Junior" Gotti should be moved to New York. ...more

November 20, 2008

John A. "Junior" Gotti's attorneys asked that the case against him be moved to New York, arguing, in part, that Gotti has never set foot in Tampa. ...more

November 7, 2008

A judge has set an April trial date for John A. "Junior" Gotti. ...more

November 3, 2008

A man the government says directed a Gambino crew that muscled into Tampa is emerging as a key figure in the case against a Tampa man accused of being part of the notorious organized crime family. ...more

October 21, 2008