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Irv Gotti Investigated By Feds In Drug Dealer Murder
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Monday, 18 April 2005
 Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo and his brother Chris face more legal drama as they are currently federally investigated in relation to the beating death of a Manhattan drug dealer, according to the New York Post.
The government is investigation the 1993 beating of a man named Anthony Sylvester, who was beaten with a two-by-four “embedded with nails.”
According to a police report, Anthony Sylvester, 33, was beaten with a two-by-four “embedded with nails.” The Gotti brothers allegedly dumped Sylvester in a vacant lot on East 124th Street and 5th Avenue in Harlem and left him for dead.
"It looks like they tortured him, hitting him on the head and probably demanding with each blow to know where their money or product was," an investigative source said.
Investigators go on to say Sylvester miraculously survived the assault, remaining in a coma for eight months, only to spend the next ten years under 24-hour hospital care until he died from his wounds on October 29, 2003.
NYPD investigators recently provided new witnesses and evidence for the case to the feds; who are considering going before a grand jury to get a murder charge against the Lorenzos.
Gerald Shargel, one of Chris' lawyers, called the accusation "malicious, false, and reckless." Shargel claims that the Gottis never knew Sylvester and that they "were just hardworking kids just trying to make it as construction workers" back in 1993.
According to sources, court records and relatives, Sylvester had been arrested at least a dozen times for violations such as larceny, possession of stolen property and criminal trespass, from 1991 to 1993.
In early October 1993, Sylvester served 30 days at Rikers Island for a drug possession charge. He was released October 19 and was in the area of 104th Street near 5th Avenue the next day when a car pulled up.
The feds are trying to prove the Gottis were in that car, emerging to drag Sylvester into the lot where he was fatally beaten.
Cops allege Sylvester owed money to or had stolen narcotics from another drug dealer.
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