Page "John Gotti" Paragraph 41

On the evening of January 23, 1989, John Gotti was arrested outside the Ravenite and charged with ordering the 1986 assault of union official John O ' Connor.

O ' Connor, a leader in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 608 who was later convicted of racketeering himself, was believed to have ordered an attack on a Gambino-associated restaurant that had snubbed the union and was subsequently shot and wounded by the Westies.

To link Gotti to the case, state prosecutors had a recording of Gotti discussing O ' Connor and announcing his intention to " Bust him up ," and the testimony of Westies gangster James McElroy.