Alite: "Once Junior Went In, I Couldn't Flip Fast Enough"
EXCLUSIVE
We assume it's in the book, what John "Junior" Gotti revealed today.
You may have read the story, EXCLUSIVE: John (Junior) Gotti brags he lied to feds - NY Daily News: "When the mob scion sat down with federal prosecutors in 2005 to discuss crimes of fellow mobsters, he planned to give them bad information and useless leads, Gotti and his lawyer revealed in an interview with the Daily News. 'No one suffered but me,' he said of the decision."
We assume it's in the book, what John "Junior" Gotti revealed today.
You may have read the story, EXCLUSIVE: John (Junior) Gotti brags he lied to feds - NY Daily News: "When the mob scion sat down with federal prosecutors in 2005 to discuss crimes of fellow mobsters, he planned to give them bad information and useless leads, Gotti and his lawyer revealed in an interview with the Daily News. 'No one suffered but me,' he said of the decision."
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| John A. "Junior" Gotti |
John Alite certainly disagrees.
No doubt some "suckers" would not. (Suckers is what mob guys call citizens. Suckers.)
Do we really need anyone to tell us what John Gotti Senior would've done if one of his guys even made an appointment to see a prosecutor? We'll deploy a quote used elsewhere on this blog to make our point as clear as possible: "Guys died for a lot less" than what John Junior did.
And the fact the he's bragging that he lied to the feds is not the brightest of moves, either. One need only examine the case of... well, John Gotti Senior, who refused to duck. Famously.
First, he said he never talked to the feds; then he said that he did talk to the feds but he didn't say anything to hurt anyone except for himself, if you choose to believe him. There's actually a technical term used in the mob for guys who use Uncle Sam to take care of their enemies: RAT.
If you can quote the rules....
This blog is called "Cosa Nostra News." What do you expect to read on here?
This blog is called "Cosa Nostra News." What do you expect to read on here?
We spoke with Gotti's former pal, John Alite (that people are even debating whether those two were thicker than thieves, quite literally in this case, is laughable to anyone who knew either of them on the street).
Alite was at no loss for words in parsing Junior's latest needless effort to bring the wrath of the federal government down on his own head. (As Paulie Walnuts might have said: Junior, do yourself a favor, pal. Shut the fuck up.)
Alite was at no loss for words in parsing Junior's latest needless effort to bring the wrath of the federal government down on his own head. (As Paulie Walnuts might have said: Junior, do yourself a favor, pal. Shut the fuck up.)
"What would be the benefit of the Cennamo murder in his proffer session unless he wants to get the murder off his back?" Alite asked us, being as specific as possible, as usual, seizing one of the many details that Junior revealed today in that Daily News exclusive.
"He tried to clear himself of the Silva murder and put it on other suspects that were in the bar, so he's putting somebody that was in that bar -- it's an open murder investigation -- on the hook for a murder he did.
"He insults the world's intelligence by lying, continuously lying. He's like Joe Pesci, not Goodfellas' Joe Pesci, but Joe Pesci from the Lethal Weapon movies."
Within hours of the March 1983 slaying in the Silver Fox, witness John Cennamo was in Jamaica Hospital shouting at police that Gotti fatally stabbed Daniel Silva, retired Detective James McKinley testified. ...
An earlier witness in Gotti's racketeering trial testified that Junior's notorious father, John Gotti Sr., shut down the murder probe with a $10,000 bribe to an NYPD detective.
... Fourteen months after the killing, Cennamo, 22, was found dead - a white sweater wrapped around his neck - from a low-hanging tree, prosecution witness Joseph Stillitano said.
The retired cop said the death had the look of a homicide, since the victim was "hanging too low." Cennamo's knees were almost touching the ground behind the Linden Blvd., Queens, laundromat, he recalled.
Prosecutors claimed Gotti was responsible for the Cennamo death, saying he bragged about the killing.
Alite added: "He knows the rules of the mob. Once you walk into the room of a prosecutor's office, you're a cooperator. Once you make the appointment you're a cooperator."
Alite's comments were echoed by one of our sources, who knew of Alite but did not know him or Junior personally.
"They made it sound like Alite was the guy who just made the coffee," said our source, an inducted member of one of New York's Cosa Nostra crime families who never flipped (or proffered). "Everyone knows he was John Junior's right hand man."
As for the article, he added, "It's a joke. The fact that Junior admits he tried to get Danny Marino and Joe Watts jammed up with the feds says it all: He's actually admitting he's a rat, plain and simple."
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| John Alite |
Alite has nothing to hide -- in fact it's difficult to shut him up. And the funny thing is, with Alite, the facts never change. He's been telling us all this since the beginning, nearly word for word.
"I was a worker, meaning I shot tons of guys," Alite told us. "Gotti said I shot 50 guys. Probably. I never denied that. The difference between me and a lot of these guys is I walk around by myself. Always did. These guys are all full of shit.
"I don't want kids to waste their life believing in something that's garbage like I did."
Alite in fact believes Gotti did far more than proffer.
"He's been cooperating as a CI in my opinion on his own or through attorneys since, I believe, in '97 when I went into solitary confinement."
What does his having been thrown in the hole have to do with anything?
"No one can find out why I was in solitary," he said. "They put me on another tier. No one but a captain or up was even allowed there."
He was placed in solitary "because I was Gotti's guy. Gotti probably never had another guy shot or killed after i wasn't around."
The relationship started souring between the two in 1994, Alite said. "I was still working for him but not staying around him. I still believed in the life and I would do anything that was asked, even for a guy I couldn't stand because I believed in the life and our family.
"And he was my boss. There is enough proof among guys that were in the mob for them to understand that John Gotti Junior ratted."
This is a tough sell, but only in New York. In most of the rest of the Western World where there is an interest in the mob, the 302 story has generated headlines.
"There is no indictment over 302s," Alite clarified, correctly. "A 302 opens up an investigation against people.
"He opened up the door not for one or two people it's probably over a dozen people that he's implicating. That is just one 302.
"The question is how long has he been going on the sneak? Just because Carnesi [Charles Carnesi is John Junior's attorney] gave up one 302 because it involved his good friend and client Danny Marino doesn't mean there aren't more."
"He was my direct boss -- and once I knew he went in when he went in, I couldn't flip fast enough.
"He's dumb when it comes to street smarts, but he's not dumb when it comes to being a weasel."
As for Junior's claim that the 302 was phony and that he was simply "gaming" the feds, Alite says:
"John Junior wouldn't give a fuck where those 302s came from if they were fake.
"And if they are fake papers he should be happy because i helped him prove what he says now.
"So what is his argument? Why'd he get on 60 minutes and swear to the world that he didn't go to a prosecutor's office?
"These are all questions nobody is asking."
We ask John Junior here and now: Why?
"One of the biggest questions I have for him is what would your father have done if he knew you met with a prosecutor?
"What would your father have done? And I know what the answer is and I'm not speaking from the beyond.
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| John Gotti ordered the deaths of suspected turncoats.... |
"You know how I know? When Carmine Agnello [Junior's brother in law] went in to take the heat on a jury tampering case, his father went off and said he's a rat for going in and he didn't care what his reasons were."
Senior, in fact, routinely, ordered the extermination of anyone even suspected of ratting, including businessmen with Gambino ties. As we noted in a previous story, There's More to Junior's Sinatra Story, Of Course....: "Frederick Weiss [one example] was whacked on Gotti’s orders after the former Gambino boss suspected Weiss had become in informant. According to prosecutor Steve Kwok, an armed Watts ["The German," as mentioned previously] was waiting for Weiss to be lured to a Staten Island garage that had been lined with plastic to catch the blood and potential brain matter splatter. Weiss never showed up and was killed by a hit team led by the New Jersey crime family the next day. "
Alite has one final point:
"Let's get this straight: I didn't cooperate against John Gotti Junior.
"I testified against him but he was already a rat."
Alite added: "I know him better than anybody. He's a coward. I have seen him walk away from dozens of fights. He never raised his hands unless he knew the guy wasn't gonna swing back.
Alite added: "I know him better than anybody. He's a coward. I have seen him walk away from dozens of fights. He never raised his hands unless he knew the guy wasn't gonna swing back.
"He is a stone cold coward and a sociopath."
"I'll use the words he used for me: he's a punk and a dog and a miscreant.
"He just doesn't know how to get attention. He's gonna find himself in a jail cell with a lot of attention."