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	Curtis Sliwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curtis Sliwa (born March 26, 1954 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, New York) founded the Guardian Angels in 1979, a volunteer anti-crime organization with which he has remained closely identified.
		Sliwa later became a populist conservative radio talk show host, although his political views are less noticeable than his "gift of gab" rapid-fire speaking style.
		Sliwa and Kuby also co-hosted a television version of "Curtis and Kuby" on MSNBC in the afternoons for a time in 2002-2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curtis_Sliwa (557 words)

	News Talk Radio 77 WABC-AM
		Curtis Sliwa, who founded the Guardian Angels and leans to the right is paired with Ron Kuby, the radical left wing attorney for 5 hours of right vs. left commentary on that days news and current events.
		Curtis and Kuby were nominated in 2003 and 2004 by Radio and Records magazine as top talk show hosts of the year for their work on WABC, finally winning the honor in 2004.
		Curtis and Kuby were also nominated in 2003 by the NAB for a Marconi as local talk show hosts of the year.
	www.wabcradio.com /showdj.asp?DJID=1726 (598 words)

	Willow Creek Association — CURTIS SLIWA INTERVIEW
		Curtis: But by living in my grandparents house, my grandfather would have one side of the basement in which he would have all the items that he would haggle with the junk man. And on the other side of the basement, I would have all these, what he thought, were useless items.
		Curtis: Just come down and see what we do, even if we’re just talking to one another, they see the synergy, they see the energy, they see that everyone is us and we.
		Curtis: Well, first pointing out how serious this volunteer service is in the fact that 6 Guardian Angels have been shot and killed in the line of duty in the past 25 years.
	www.willowcreek.com /sliwa (8286 words)

	Newsweek :: NEWSWEEK: Radio Talk Show Host Curtis Sliwa Says He Can't Wait to Testify in Upcoming Trial of John Gotti ...
		Sliwa is scheduled to testify later this week or early next in the Manhattan federal court racketeering trial of John Jr.
		Sliwa said he was shot three times by a masked gunman as payback for repeatedly attacking the elder Gotti as a drug dealer on his popular local radio show, and for the past 13 years has demanded his day in court.
		Sliwa formed the Guardian Angels in 1979, and for the next decade, became a national spokesman for the victims of violent crime.
	sev.prnewswire.com /magazines/20050807/NYSU00807082005-1.html (423 words)

	Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is a National Treasure - Atlantic Highlands Herald - New Jersey
		Curtis, a Brooklyn native, has been leading the charge on Homeland Security in America long before it became official after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on 9/11.
		Curtis and his Angels have become a storybook fable: McDonald’s night manager in a crime-ridden area of the Bronx, who, sickened and saddened by his city’s deterioration, took matters into his own hands.
		Curtis is the co-host of the most popular morning radio talk show in New York City, the WABC “Curtis and Kuby Show.” The 770 AM broadcast reaches the four-state greater metropolitan region of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
	www.ahherald.com /bishop/2003/gb030522_sliwa.htm (775 words)

	USATODAY.com - Radio host and Gotti to meet in courtroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sliwa, who's rarely at a loss for words, was expected to testify Monday in Gotti's federal racketeering trial.
		Sliwa, who co-hosts a morning radio show with liberal lawyer Ron Kuby, only increased his vitriol toward Gotti and the Gambino family after the shooting.
		Sliwa, quite dramatically, then went into hiding over fears that he would be targeted for retaliation by the Gambino family.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-08-21-gotti-sliwa_x.htm (587 words)

	Junior Gotti Seeks Gag Order Against Sliwa
		Sliwa has been on a non-stop, on-air tear against the Gotti clan ever since federal prosecutors filed attempted murder charges against Junior this summer.
		In court papers, Gotti asserts that he is not seeking to suppress Sliwa’s right to free speech, but to force Sliwa to adhere to laws that prohibit him, a “prominent” prosecution witness, from using his “wildly popular radio show” to poison potential jurors in a daily “smear campaign” against him.
		Sliwa took a shot at his co-host, reputed civil liberties lawyer Ronald Kuby, former New York Civil Liberties Union executive director Norman Siegel, as well as the NYCLU’s umbrella organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, for their lack of support.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column406.htm (1157 words)

	wcbstv.com - Sliwa Face-To-Face With Gotti In Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prosecutors allege Sliwa was targeted after angering the Gambino organized crime family with his on-air tirades against late mob boss John Gotti, who had been sentenced to life in prison for a racketeering conviction.
		Sliwa also admitted that he made headlines by falsely claiming that police, annoyed by the Guardian Angels, had kidnapped and threatened him.
		Curtis Sliwa told jurors that after hailing the cab, a masked gunman hiding in the front passenger seat "popped up like a jack-in-the-box," swore at him and began shooting.
	wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_234053927.html (504 words)

	Courtroom fireworks as Sliwa finally gets to stare - Speakeasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The younger Sliwa, 51, who's usually running his mouth in morning drive time as co-host of the "Curtis and Kuby in the Morning" show on 77 WABC, is gagged from discussing the case outside court.
		Sliwa briefly went into hiding after the younger Gotti was indicted last year, fearing mobsters hellbent on vengeance.
		When Sliwa was shot in the taxi on June 19, 1992, the imploding bullets left so many scars he couldn't be sure how many hit him - though he believes two slugs entered his stomach and another went through both legs.
	www.speakeasy.invisionzone.com /index.php?showtopic=299 (888 words)

	Junior Don Behind Curtis Sliwa Shooting
		Sources say the feds have evidence that Junior ordered crew members “to teach (Sliwa) a lesson” for his repeated portrayals of the late Dapper Don as a low life gangster who deserved to be jailed for life for his April 1992 racketeering and murder conviction.
		Sliwa was shot and critically wounded by two gangsters who picked him up in a stolen taxi cab outside his East Village apartment as he left for his early morning talk show at about 5 A.M. on June 19, 1992 — four days before Gotti was sentenced to life.
		Six months after the Sliwa attack, Junior was on a three capo panel running the Gambino family for his dad that authorized the Christmas Eve execution of a daring husband and wife team that had robbed several Gambino and Bonanno family social clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan, sources said.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column336.htm (1242 words)

	Students and Leaders: Curtis Sliwa
		Curtis is known as one of the most effective and respected grass roots leaders of the past quarter century.
		Curtis Sliwa has always been about helping his fellow man. He has always remained true to his beliefs, living them in every endeavor.
		Curtis has been recognized by Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Clinton, applauded repeatedly by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and honored by business, entertainment and civic leaders across the Nation.
	www.studentsandleaders.org /newyork/speakers/curtis_sliwa.asp (255 words)

	Prosecutor: John Gotti Jr. no longer charged with conspiracy to murder - Courttv.com - Trials
		Prosecutors had earlier included the charges relating to Sliwa in an indictment that accused Gotti of leading the Gambino organized crime family after his father was put behind bars.
		But a centerpiece of the indictment was the charges relating to the attack on Sliwa, who was shot on June 19, 1992, as he hailed a cab in Manhattan.
		Sliwa said he suspects the government was not pursuing the charge because it was not certain the evidence would result in a conviction.
	www.courttv.com /trials/news/0705/27_gottijr_ap.html (515 words)

	Curtis Sliwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Born to a close-knit family in Brooklyn, Curtis absorbed values steeped in the importance of societal responsibility.
		Curtis speaks often now to groups about the power of one, the importance of volunteer service, and rolemodelling.
		With Curtis at the helm, The Guardian Angels has evolved into a renowned organization focused on their groundbreaking work in developing curriculums to address the critical issues that threaten safe and effective education.
	www.guardianangels.org /about_curtis.html (202 words)

	jimpoz.com - The Art Bell Book Signing
		Curtis "The Rock" Sliwa was standing on the sidewalk directly in front of the front doors of Barnes and Noble and a few steps from the curb.
		Curtis was also handing out flyers and seemed to be having a good time, trading lighthearted barbs back and forth both with those still waiting in line as well as with the throng surrounding him.
		Curtis can be heard five hours a day on WABC, and also on Saturdays, and sometime fills in on the morning show or appears as a guest on the evening sports show.
	www.jimpoz.com /writings/20000113.asp (1715 words)

	Cu Digest Archives
		Sliwa promised Hatcher and his wife, Kitaj, that they would be fully reimbursed for all living expenses as well as costs and expenses incurred in connection with their work on CyberAngels.
		The misrepresentations of THE GUARDIAN ANGELS and Sliwa were made with malice, fraud and oppression and were undertaken with the intent to injure Hatcher and Kitaj and therefore justify awarding exemplary and punitive damages to Hatcher and Kitaj.
		Sliwa agreed to repay Kitaj the principal sum of $2,300, plus interest accumulated on her credit card, at a rate of $120 per month on the eighth day of each month starting June 8, 1997 until the principal and accumulated interest were paid in full.
	venus.soci.niu.edu /~cudigest/CUDS11/cud1106.html (6898 words)

	Streetplay.com: 1999 Stickball Classic - Bronx
		It's a good show, but Curtis, who takes great pride in his role of "Stickball Commissioner," is also an astute observer of the game.
		Throughout the Bronx championship, in which the Latinos emerged victorious with a tie breaking run in the bottom of the 7th, Sliwa commented that we were seeing stickball at its finest.
		During the height of the debate, Sliwa commented that "this was the way NY stickball should be played." We asked him to elaborate on this point.
	www.streetplay.com /stickball/classic/sliwa.htm (428 words)

	The Guardian Angels: what's the downside? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Curtis Sliwa, one of the founders of the Guardian Angels was in town last week to attempt to have his group patrol the streets of Toronto.
		Sliwa’s visit came after some Torontonians wrote to him and asked for help after the horrendous shootings that took place on Yonge Street in the midst of a crowd of Boxing Day shoppers.
		The reason that Miller won’t even meet with Curtis Sliwa shows that both Miller and Blair are closed to any solutions to violent crime that don’t conform to their narrow ideological views.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/toronto011806.htm (784 words)

	Curtis Sliwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Founder and President of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa is one of the most respected grass roots activists in the nation.
		Sliwa currently hosts the #1 morning radio show in NYC on WABC, "The Curtis and Kuby Show".
		Sliwa has been recognized by Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Clinton, as well as former NY Mayor Giuliani, for his dedication to his fellow man. Being non-Jewish, Mr.
	israeloncampuscoalition.org /speakers/csliwa.htm (97 words)

	News Talk Radio 77 WABC-AM
		Curtis spearheads countless public service programs, including food and clothing distribution for the needy and anti-drug speakers bureaus.
		Sliwa has also authored several books on self-defense and safety, making his vision of community service and fighting crime a reality.
		Known all over the world as the founder and leader of the Guardian Angels, a non-profit, all volunteer crime fighting organization with 40 chapters throughout the United States and 7 countries overseas, Curtis Sliwa's scope is vast and intensive.
	www.wabcradio.com /showdj.asp?DJID=1727 (253 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Crime
		Curtis Sliwa, who formed the Guardian Angels in 1979 while working as a night manager of a McDonald's restaurant in the Bronx, doesn't see it that way, of course.
		Sliwa claims some of the credit for the huge drop in the number of murders in the city since the early-1980s.
		Curtis Clarke, director of the criminal justice program at Athabasca University, says the important point here is that police are accountable to the community for their actions.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/crime/guardian-angels.html (1094 words)

	Current.org \| WNYC hires Sliwa, 1994
		Morgan says Sliwa fits his plan for a "radio verite" local talk show called New York Beat, and denied that the city-owned station is being pressured by new Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to hire Sliwa, an outspoken Giuliani campaign supporter and recently fired talk host on commercial WABC.
		Sliwa could bring listeners from WABC, which averages 10 times the audience of WNYC-AM, or he could simply chase away the public station's fans.
		"Sliwa is a courageous and provocative New York personality, a hard-working, street-wise reporter, who talks to people in all walks of life, in all corners of the city," Morgan said in a release last week.
	www.current.org /rad/rad403ny.html (1432 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 339
		Thus, in the Summer of 1992, when Sliwa was found on the streets of lower Manhattan with bullet holes in his body, many in the Media as well as law enforcement believed this was just another, somewhat desperate, ‘publicity stunt’ on Sliwa’s part to gain attention to his organization and radio talk show.
		However, as the years passed, Sliwa slowly emerged as a popular talk show host, once teamed with his political opposite, the radical left-wing criminal lawyer Ron Kuby.
		Sliwa was left ‘out of the loop’ in the process, prompting his angry diatribes against the very law enforcement agency that was conducting the investigation.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_339.html (1028 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Feds to gag Sliwa? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sliwa's testimony has formed the dramatic centerpiece of the mob scion's two trials over the past year, but both cases have ended in hung juries.
		Sliwa told of being shot twice as he lunged for an open passenger-side window of a taxi whose rear doors had been rigged shut.
		But Sliwa also has been forced to admit under cross-examination a history of publicity stunts he pulled in the early days of the Guardian Angels.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/447540p-376795c.html (531 words)

	Sliwa running scared now that Gotti is free - Tucker - MSNBC.com
		Sliwa is the founder of the Guardian Angels, a civilian crime-fighting group, and claims John Gotti, Jr.
		SLIWA: Well, Tucker, I can't blame all the jury because on four of the major counts, eleven of them found him guilty.
		SLIWA: You mean Victoria Gottilocks and the three little Dons, the glorification of the Gotti family takes place on the AandE reality show and, in fact, it became a bone of contention in the bail hearing because she put up that 14-room mansion in Old Westbury in Long Island as part of the collateral.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9530781 (835 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Curtis Sliwa watched the man he claims ordered a hit on him walk away from court for the second time yesterday - and said it hurt more than the ambush that almost killed him.
		For Sliwa, the indictment was a "vindication" of a 12-year struggle for justice in an attack that left him with wounds to both legs.
		Curtis was late, as he was coming from a previous rally in Fieldsboro (?sp?) NJ, the mayor of which gained notoriety for banning public displays of flags or yellow ribbons on public property.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=curtissliwa (2546 words)

	Appreciation Thread for Curtis Sliwa - Sean Hannity Discussion
		i have listened to curtis since he joined wabc, i was listening the early morning when he was shot.
		curtis is very entertaining and i hope he has many more years on the new york air waves.
		It's not disputed that Curtis nearly died and, so far, no one has gone to jail for the crime.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=59527 (704 words)

	Closing Arguments In Gotti Jr. Trial, Defense Says Don't Convict Him Because Of Sins Of The Godfather - CBS News
		The 42-year-old Gotti is accused of ordering up two attacks on Guardian Angels founder-turned-radio host Curtis Sliwa in 1992, allegedly as payback for insulting comments made on the air about Gotti's father.
		In the second attack, a botched kidnapping, Sliwa was shot and almost killed, authorities said.
		Sliwa meanwhile is fuming over Monday's testimony at the trial, in which his radio talk show co-host, attorney Ron Kuby, said Junior Gotti asked him in 1998 to pass a note to the government that he was ready to quit the Mafia and wanted to cut a deal.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/09/national/main1384888.shtml (855 words)

	Third mistrial in Gotti Jr. racketeering case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gotti was also accused of ordering two 1992 attacks on Guardian Angels leader and radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa, including one where he was shot twice before escaping out the window of a taxi rigged to keep him trapped inside.
		Sliwa sat in the courtroom, looking disappointed, as the mistrial was declared.
		Sliwa has been in Canada often in the recent months, as the Guardian Angels have attempted to set up chapters in several cities.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/09/27/gotti-sliwa.html (1607 words)

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