Pic of the Day: “Ladies and gentlemen, I won’t take up too much more of your time. It’s been a long trial, and I don’t want you to be away from your families any longer than you have to. I realize I said a lot of things in this courtroom and I hope I didn’t offend nobody. But I just wanted to show you that I’m not a gangster. I’m just a gagster. I’m not gonna read from this. I promised you a long time ago I would speak from the heart. Now, I know the government tried piling up all this evidence in front of you. They showed you photos and you think it’s me and my friends meeting together, it’s probably some kind of criminal conspiracy. You see this picture? You recognize that one in the middle? That’s me. The rest of the guys are some of these men here as children. This was, of course, way long before the government ever knew who Jackie DiNorscio was, who was standing on a corner outside of an ice-cream parlor. And you know what we were doing that day? We were conspiring to buy ice cream. If they had a RICO law back then, they probably would have locked us up. Now, I know it’s tough to decide who to believe in this case. For 600 days, you guys have been sittin’ here. They came in with tape after tape, witness after witness. And they were trying to fill your mind with so much baloney that in the end you’d think, ‘Oh, God, there’s so much there. There has to be something to it.’ Ladies and gentlemen if you believe anything that any of those witnesses has said or if you feel that the prosecutor was right, then I beg you, please, don’t take it out on my friends here. If you have to blame someone, then find me guilty. You heard me right. Find me guilty, and let these men go home to their families. You see, I already lost mine. And I don’t want their kids to lose their fathers ’cause of Uncle Jackie. So, send me to jail. I’m not guilty, but I’m used to it.” (20th Anniversary)