A defendant in a racketeering trial was described yesterday as a Mafia captain who had carried out a plot to kill three rivals in the Bonanno crime family.

Now Gotti was close to his home family, while still conducting business as Mafia captain from his private office.

He was supposed to lunch with Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit-based mob enforcer, and Anthony Provenzano, a Mafia captain and New Jersey Teamster boss.

A Mafia captain who pleaded guilty in 1992 to ordering a 1985 murder was released from federal prison six weeks after a federal judge threw out his 22-year prison sentence.

One call relayed a plea to reduce the sentence of Mario Gigante, a Mafia captain.

An admitted Mafia captain who survived an assassination attempt testified today that he became a prosecution witness only after receiving a message threatening the life of his wife.

The remains of two men believed to be Mafia captains have been found.

In one case, in 1990, prosecutors said the detectives, driving an unmarked police car, pulled over a Mafia captain on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn and shot him to death for a rival mob figure.

An admitted Mafia captain who escaped assassination and turned informer testified that he believes he was shot four months ago on orders of the top leaders of his crime family.

Yesterday, the inquiry ended with the indictments of a reputed high-ranking Mafia captain and six other men on charges that they had imposed a "mob tax" on almost every garment manufactured in Manhattan since 1982.