Editing Rudy Giuliani (section)

====Mafia Commission trial====
{{Further|Mafia Commission Trial}}
[[File:Rudolph Giuliani, D.A., NYC (06).jpg|thumb|Giuliani as U.S. Attorney in 1984, as photographed by [[Bernard Gotfryd]]]]
In the [[Mafia Commission Trial]], which ran from February 25, 1985, through November 19, 1986, Giuliani indicted eleven [[organized crime]] figures, including the heads of New York City's so-called "[[Five Families]]", under the [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act]] on charges including [[extortion]], labor racketeering, and [[Contract killing|murder for hire]]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine called this "case of cases" possibly "the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the [[Chicago Outfit|Chicago Mafia]] was swept away in 1943", and quoted Giuliani's stated intention: "Our approach is to wipe out the five families."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101860210-143096,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204023051/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101860210-143096,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2007 |title=The Passionate Prosecutor |access-date=November 15, 2006 |last=Stengel |first=Richard |date=June 24, 2001 |magazine=Time}}</ref> [[Gambino crime family]] boss [[Paul Castellano]] evaded conviction when he and his [[underboss]] [[Thomas Bilotti]] were murdered on the streets of [[midtown Manhattan]] on December&nbsp;16, 1985. However, three heads of the Five Families were sentenced to 100 years in prison on January 13, 1987.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lubasch |first=Arnold H. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/20/nyregion/us-jury-convicts-eight-as-members-of-mob-commission.html |title=U.S. Jury Convicts Eight as Members of Mob Commission |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 20, 1986 |access-date=August 2, 2015 |archive-date=September 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926142512/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/20/nyregion/us-jury-convicts-eight-as-members-of-mob-commission.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lubasch |first=Arnold H. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/nyregion/judge-sentences-8-mafia-leaders-to-prison-terms.html |title=Judge Sentences 8 Mafia Leaders to Prison Terms |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 14, 1987 |access-date=August 2, 2015 |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524210855/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/nyregion/judge-sentences-8-mafia-leaders-to-prison-terms.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Genovese crime family|Genovese]] and [[Colombo crime family|Colombo]] leaders, [[Anthony Salerno|Tony Salerno]] and [[Carmine Persico]], received additional sentences in separate trials, with 70-year and 39-year sentences to run consecutively. He was assisted by three Assistant United States Attorneys: [[Michael Chertoff]], the eventual second United States Secretary of Homeland Security and co-author of the [[Patriot Act]]; John Savarese, now a partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz; and Gil Childers, a later deputy chief of the criminal division for the Southern District of New York and now managing director in the legal department at Goldman Sachs.

According to an FBI memo revealed in 2007, leaders of the Five Families voted in late 1986 on whether to issue a contract for Giuliani's death.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Sullivan |title=Crime Bosses Considered Hit on Giuliani |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/crime-bosses-considered-hit-on-giuliani/ |website=The New York Times The Caucus blog |date=October 5, 2018 |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630121455/https://archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/crime-bosses-considered-hit-on-giuliani/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Heads of the [[Lucchese crime family|Lucchese]], [[Bonanno crime family|Bonanno]], and Genovese families rejected the idea, though Colombo and Gambino leaders, Carmine Persico and [[John Gotti]], encouraged assassination.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/inside-the-american-mob/galleries/mob-murder-faq/at/q-do-mafioso-ever-put-out-contracts-on-law-enforcement-officials-1748568 |title=Mob Murder FAQ: Do Mafioso ever put out contracts on law enforcement officials? |publisher=National Geographic Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529073059/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/inside-the-american-mob/galleries/mob-murder-faq/at/q-do-mafioso-ever-put-out-contracts-on-law-enforcement-officials-1748568 |access-date=August 25, 2013|archive-date=May 29, 2016 }}</ref> In 2014, it was revealed by former [[Sicilian Mafia]] member and informant [[Rosario Naimo]] that [[Salvatore Riina]], a notorious Sicilian Mafia leader, had ordered a murder contract on Giuliani during the mid-1980s. Riina allegedly was suspicious of Giuliani's efforts prosecuting the American Mafia and was worried that he might have spoken with Italian anti-Mafia prosecutors and politicians, including [[Giovanni Falcone]] and [[Paolo Borsellino]], who were both murdered in 1992 in separate car bombings.<ref>{{cite news|title=Giovanni Falcone, who has died aged 53, spent most of his life doggedly fighting the mafiosi responsible for murdering him.|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/5367721/Giovanni-Falcone.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529013600/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/5367721/Giovanni-Falcone.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 29, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=May 25, 1992 |access-date=May 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Paolo Borsellino |first1=Wolfgang |last1=Achtner |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-paolo-borsellino-1534572.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=July 20, 1992 |access-date=May 19, 2018 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612204827/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-paolo-borsellino-1534572.html |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Giuliani, the Sicilian Mafia offered $800,000 for his death during his first year as mayor of New York in 1994.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sicilian mafia 'plotted to kill' former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani |first=Nick |last=Squires |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10667504/Sicilian-mafia-plotted-to-kill-former-New-York-mayor-Rudy-Giuliani.html |date=February 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10667504/Sicilian-mafia-plotted-to-kill-former-New-York-mayor-Rudy-Giuliani.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=May 3, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rudy Giuliani says mafia put $800,000 bounty on his head – but ex-New York mayor admits Islamist terrorists scare him more than the mob |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rudy-giuliani-says-mafia-put-800-000-bounty-on-his-head-but-exnew-york-mayor-admits-islamist-terrorists-scare-him-more-than-the-mob-8969849.html |date=November 28, 2013 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |first=John |last=Hall |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127203549/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rudy-giuliani-says-mafia-put-800-000-bounty-on-his-head-but-exnew-york-mayor-admits-islamist-terrorists-scare-him-more-than-the-mob-8969849.html |url-status=live }}</ref>