A1 An Offer Fewer Can Refuse The mob turncoat, once a rare and shocking figure, has become almost commonplace.

He appears to have believed, for example, that much of the evidence was coming from mob turncoats who had admitted to perjury and from owners of a Manhattan topless bar, Scores, who were themselves implicated in fraud.

He called the man whose body was found "another unfortunate victim" of mob turncoats who have provided information to prosecutors, adding that the find has no impact on the case.

Organized crime experts and mob turncoats said Mr. Gigante was apparently willing to humiliate himself publicly to dodge the long prison sentences being meted out to other Mafia leaders.

Yes, despite the testimony to the contrary by the key mob turncoat in the Junior Gotti trial, Michael DiLeonardo, who told of his own mistress and also Junior's.

However, in 1998, prosecutors tore up the deal after accusing Casso of lying about other mob turncoats and bribing guards, among other things.

Marcello reportedly became a "made" member in the Chicago mob in 1983-a step that, a mob turncoat testified in 2007, required an individual to be 100 percent Italian and also to have participated in at least one killing.

After becoming a mob turncoat, Martorano agreed to have his friend Bradley interview him on 60 Minutes, but Bradley died before this could occur.

The accusation that Mr. Gotti had ordered the Sliwa shooting, the defense lawyer said, was cooked up in 2002 by Michael DiLeonardo, a mob turncoat facing life without parole.

In the Mafia's insular world of secrecy and twisted tradition, a boss is chosen for life and is ousted only by death or abdication, according to mob turncoats.