Sneak Peek: Ex-Mobster John Alite Speaks with Trevor McDonald
We now present a clip of John Alite talking to Sir Trevor McDonald for an ITV documentary about the Mafia titled "The Mafia with Trevor McDonald."
As we noted, the veteran broadcaster wants to show viewers the "reality" and not the "mythology" of the Mob in the show.
Trevor will look at the day-to-day lives of men within the secret crime organisation as well as undercover law enforcement figures, the Radio Times reported.
For the show, he visits New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Southern California. The show is set to air in the fall.
As for Alite, we noted in a recent story how an episode of "60 Minutes" focused on an interview with the former associate of John Gotti Junior about sports betting, a hot political issue in New Jersey. It also included some of the highlights of his career on the street, limiting its scope to the turncoat's doings in the New York area, where he worked under the Gottis.
But he also was quite active in the criminal underworld in Tampa, Fla., working under fellow New Yorker Ronald "Ronnie One Arm" Trucchio.
Among other things, Alite said becoming a bookie was one of his first rackets; he'd learned all about the sports-betting business from family members with whom he lived in the same house in Woodhaven, Queens.
"I was good at it and I became very good at it, and I became a professor of bookmaking," Alite told correspondent Jack Ford.
Among other things, Alite said becoming a bookie was one of his first rackets; he'd learned all about the sports-betting business from family members with whom he lived in the same house in Woodhaven, Queens.
"I was good at it and I became very good at it, and I became a professor of bookmaking," Alite told correspondent Jack Ford.
John Alite, the prosecution's star witness in the then-ongoing racketeering trial of Gotti Jr. in federal court in New York City, told authorities that, during a stay in South Jersey, he met with doomed Philadelphia associate Johnny "Gongs" Casasanto several times in 2002 as well as with various leaders of the Philadelphia mob, including those suspected of ordering Casasanto's murder in November 2003.