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Ejection of 2 jurors sparks tirade from Gotti's mom

Quick ReadVictoria Gotti has courtroom outburst, yells "They're railroading you."

In this file photo, Victoria Gotti, center, mother

Photo credit: Newsday, 2006 /Moises Saman | In this file photo, Victoria Gotti, center, mother of John "Junior" Gotti, leaves federal court in Manhattan at the end of another day of jury deliberations in her son's 2006 racketeering trial. (Sept. 26, 2006)

Gotti family matriarch Victoria Gotti exploded in an obscenity-laced courtroom rant Wednesday afternoon as a judge knocked two warring jurors off the panel hearing her son's racketeering-murder trial in federal court in Manhattan.

The outburst came just after a former prosecutor stonewalled defense questions about a 2006 mob death threat against her son, John "Junior" Gotti, and the jury had...

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