{"id":736,"date":"2006-02-23T08:33:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/insert_the_distinctive_law_order_donk_donk_here.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T08:33:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T16:33:59","slug":"insert_the_dist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/insert_the_dist.html","title":{"rendered":"Insert The Distinctive Law & Order “Donk Donk” Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have people in from out of town, feel free to send them down to the federal courthouse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Miami real-estate agent Claude Attia wanted to do something meaningful during his few days in New York.<\/p>\n

So he wandered into the Manhattan federal courthouse — and smack into John “Junior” Gotti’s sensational trial on its most explosive day of testimony.<\/p>\n

“I told them downstairs I wanted to see something interesting. They sent me up here,” the 45-year-old Frenchman said.<\/p>\n

His jaw dropped when he saw platinum-blond Victoria Gotti, who showed up for court wearing a waist-length sable fur coat, skintight blue jeans and her signature oversized Louis Vuitton bag. She hunched silently in the second row with her fire-engine-red-haired sister, Angel, and family matriarch Victoria Sr.<\/p>\n

“These people want to be like Al Capone!” he said, shocked.<\/p>\n

Attia wasn’t the only wayward tourist who made his way into the gallery — and he certainly wasn’t the only one stunned by the display.<\/p>\n

“It’s like watching ‘The Godfather’ all over again,” said star-struck Ian McNeilly, 54, a lawyer visiting from Sydney, Australia. “In Australia, we have more white-collar crime than hit men.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the show is not just for tourists:<\/p>\n

Manny Diaz, a court-case buff, traveled all the way from The Bronx to catch a glimpse of the action.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always admired John Sr.,” said the 47-year-old recovering drug addict, who attends trials to keep himself clean. “I’ve always liked the Gottis, too. But I don’t like Victoria’s show. I think it’s propaganda.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have people in from out of town, feel free to send them down to the federal courthouse: Miami real-estate agent Claude Attia wanted to do something meaningful during his few days in New York. So he wandered into the Manhattan federal courthouse — and smack into John “Junior” Gotti’s sensational trial on its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}