Jury convicts NYC gangster in death penalty trial featuring testimony of former crime boss

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A tough-talking New York City mobster who's already serving a life sentence for attempted murder was convicted Monday in a death penalty case accusing him of ordering a gangland killing to cement his rise to power in the Bonanno organized crime family.

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