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Accused mobster wants to be own attorney

Joseph Corozzo is reputed to be the Gambino crime family's consigliere -- or adviser in Italian. These days Corozzo wants to keep his own counsel.

The 66-year-old Ozone Park man said yesterday that since he can't have son Joseph as his lawyer in a racketeering case, that he wants to be his own attorney.

"I would like to represent myself," Corozzo told federal Judge Jack Weinstein in...

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