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In 2004, months before he was released from prison, Gotti was charged in an 11-count racketeering indictment which included an alleged plot to kidnap Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, as well as securities fraud, extortion and loansharking.[10] A radio talk show host for WABC, Sliwa had allegedly angered the family by denouncing the elder Gotti as "Public Enemy #1" on his show. During the trial, two former associates, Michael DiLeonardo and Joseph D'Angelo testified against Gotti. Through his attorney, Gotti admitted that he had been involved in the Gambino crime family in the 1990s, and had even been slated to lead the organization after his father was sent to jail in 1992, but claimed he had left criminal life behind after his conviction in 1999.[11][12] Three juries eventually deadlocked on the charges, the last in 2006, and federal prosecutors decided not to pursue a fourth trial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Gotti

On June 19, 1992 Sliwa was shot and nearly kidnapped by two gunmen after entering a taxi in Manhattan. A stolen taxi picked up Sliwa near his home in the East Village and a gunman hiding in the front passenger seat jumped up and fired several shots, hitting him in the groin and legs. The kidnapping was apparently foiled when Sliwa lept from the front window of the moving cab and escaped. Sliwa underwent surgery for internal injuries and leg wounds.[4]
Federal Prosecutors eventually charged John A. Gotti, the son of Gambino crime family leader John Gotti, with the attempted murder,[5] among a raft of other charges. Prosecutors claimed that Gotti was angered by remarks Sliwa had made about his father on his radio program. However, after three attempts to try him, the last on September 20, 2005, three separate juries were unable to agree to convict Gotti on all of the charges brought against him and the charges were dropped. Jurors later told reporters they did believe he had a role in Sliwa's shooting.[6] Prosecutors declined to re-try Gotti and dismissed the charges against him. Sliwa has said he would seek damages in Civil Court.[7] Michael Yannotti, a Gotti associate, was also charged with shooting Sliwa in the incident and was acquitted.[8] The TV series Law & Order loosely dramatized these events in the episode "Cry Wolf" (Nov. 17, 2004). Jose Zuniga played Sliwa's fictional counterpart, called "Kristoff". Sliwa has been a radio broadcaster for almost two decades. He has broadcast on WABC, on and off, since 1990. In 1994, the then city-owned and operated WNYC hired Sliwa, who had been released by WABC. Some, including Sliwa,[9] have suggested that he was forced on the station by newly-elected mayor Rudy Giuliani [whose daddy was a Mafia enforcer in Sing Sing prison for armed robbery].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Sliwa

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