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Mob Experts on The Sopranos, Week 5

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Posted Monday, April 5, 2004, at 3:44 PM ET

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Last year, each new episode of The Sopranos was analyzed by a group of shrinks; this year, each week two mob experts will discuss the lives and squabbles of America's favorite gangsters. Today our experts are joined by Gerald Shargel, an attorney who has represented many high-profile clients, including John Gotti.

I happen to be a hunt-and-peck typist, Smartass, and if you'll look, the "b" is right below the "g," and since you gave me that 2:15 ET deadline, I didn't read it over ...

Rubble

Posted Monday, April 5, 2004, at 3:44 PM ET
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Jerry Capeci is author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia and Jerry Capeci's Gang Land: Fifteen Years of Covering the Mafia. His weekly column about organized crime, "Gang Land," appears in the New York Sun and at www.ganglandnews.com. Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. Gerald Shargel has represented many high-profile clients, including John Gotti. He is a practitioner in residence at Brooklyn Law School, where he also teaches.
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