Lawyers for John Gotti Jr., Carmine Tramunti and Dominick Trinchera say mobsters are ‘f****** thrilled’ Rudy Guiliani is indicted on RICO charges – which he used to take down organized crime – as ‘karma is about to crush him’

Lawyers for mob members who once fought with Rudy Giuliani, who became famous for using RICO charges to take down mobsters, say their clients have the last laugh given the recent criminal charges against the former NYC mayor.

Former President Donald Trump, Giuliani and 17 others were indicted Monday night by a grand jury in Fulton County on 41 RICO-related counts for their alleged efforts to reverse Trump’s 2020 Georgia election loss.

As a federal prosecutor in Manhattan in the 1980s, Giuliani pioneered the use of RICO laws to dismantle the mob, successfully using the federal version to prosecute the heads of New York’s so-called “Five Families” in the marathon Mafia Commission Trial.

Murray Richman, a lawyer who has represented several mafiosos Giuliani took on, said his clients are “f**king excited” and “laughing” at what happened to Giuliani.

It goes beyond politics, Richman said, noting that half of his customers were “freaking love” Trump.

“They’re all almost united in their position to hate f**king Rudy,” he said The messenger.

“I don’t want to say the language, but they really ripped Rudy a new hole,” added Richman, who called the late Lucchese family boss Carmine “Mr. Gribbs’ Tramunti and Dominick “Big Trin” Trinchera, a capo of the Bonnano family killed in a power struggle in 1981.

Richman is not alone, as former John Gotti Jr. attorney Jeffrey Lichtman echoed the sentiments.

“All my clients who had the misfortune of being prosecuted by him are laughing now,” he said. ‘Like me.’

“I’m thrilled that Rudy will now experience what it feels like to be on the wrong side of a RICO prosecution – with a mandatory five-year prison sentence ahead of him,” added Lichtman.

The federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was created in 1970 as a tool to combat organized crime.

The law allowed prosecutors to target people in positions of authority within a criminal organization, not just lower-level people doing the dirty work.

But it was never intended that its use should be restricted solely to organized crime.

The U.S. Supreme Court noted in a 1989 opinion that the law was “broad enough to encompass a wide variety of criminal activities, take many different forms, and likely attract a wide variety of offenders.”

Within a few years of the federal law going into effect, many states began to pass their own RICO laws, including Georgia, which passed its version in 1980.

Not only is it an ironic result, but it is a fair result. He was a terribly dishonest accuser and the wheel of karma is about to crush him,” Lichtman noted.

Ron Kuby, who represented Gambino associate Stephen “Sigmund the Sea Monster” Sergio, also noted the irony.

“It’s just wonderful to watch the man who expanded the RICO prosecutions far beyond their original intent, and did so while grabbing the biggest headlines, to see him indicted by the law he was defending.”

Kuby said he had not yet heard from his clients, but said he has received some “excited and elated” responses from family members.

He added that it was “a sad day in America,” but couldn’t stop laughing.

In a Newsmax interview with Eric Bolling, the ex-New York mayor and former personal attorney of Donald Trump criticized Willis for her application of the Georgia version of the RICO law.

“This is not for election disputes. I mean, this is ridiculous what she’s doing,” Giuliani said Tuesday.

Giuliani was named alongside Trump as one of 18 co-defendants in an extensive case involving election interference in the aftermath of Georgia’s 2020 election.

Giuliani denounced Willis’ charge as a “ridiculous application of the statute of racketeering.”

Each of the 19 defendants is charged with violating Georgia’s RICO law, including in connection with Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.

‘There’s probably no one who knows better than me. There are probably also people who know. I was the first to use it in white collar cases,” he said.

“I don’t know if she realizes it either, because she seems like a rather incompetent, sloppy prosecutor. I mean, what she did yesterday with that charge is unforgivable. If she had worked for me, I would have fired her,” he added, referring to the fact that the indictment was posted online before the Grand Jury voted to bring the indictment.

Among other things, the indictment that appeared on the Internet ahead of the Grand Jury vote implied that Willis had already decided to press charges before hearing what the Grand Jury had to say, the former mayor said.

When Bolling asked Giuliani why Willis chose to use the RICO charge against the defendants, he said, “Because she’s a politician, not a lawyer.” Not an honest, honorable lawyer.’

Giuliani was charged with 13 charges — the same number as Trump — including violation of the RICO law, false statements and writings, conspiracy to commit first-degree forgery, and incitement to violate oath by a public official.

All of the defendants were charged in connection with alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia — a state that Joe Biden narrowly won and helped secure his victory over Trump.

The indictment aggregates all 18 defendants using Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law, which is based on the similar federal statute created in 1970 to address organized crime.