Then-Lawyer Let Jr. Gotti Look at Rivals' Client Files, Witness Testifies
While representing John “Junior” Gotti during the 1990s, a New York lawyer let the allegedly retired mobster see the files of other clients who were from a rival crime family, a government witness testified this week.
But the lawyer says that isn’t true: Not only did he never share any client’s file with another client, but Gotti virtually never came to his Jericho office, attorney Richard Rehbock is quoted by the Associated Press in an article published in the New York Law Journal (scroll down).
“Gotti would go into the files. Richie Rehbock would let him look at ‘em all,” former Gotti lieutenant John Alite, who is now a cooperating witness, told a federal jury yesterday in Gotti’s murder and racketeering trial. “He was looking to see who was a rat, who wasn’t a rat.”
Rehbock told Newsday that Alite, a former client, is lying. “It never happened. I never, ever share with any client another client’s matters,” Rehbock is quoted saying. “Never in a million years. I wouldn’t do it.”
Updated to add Newsday quote.
