 Ultimately, the New York Court of Appeals declared New York's contempt statute unconstitutional.He would later be the major lawyer of the first John Gotti case, by which Gotti and his associates were all acquitted.Slotnick has also represented former Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi, as well as Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was accused by the United States Department of Justice of being a major boss of the Russian mafia.