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Englishtown, New Jersey, entered the pages of history in the 18th century when General George Washington briefly made it his headquarters following the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. The town got another dramatic, albeit much more recent, kick last month when the mayor appointed former Gambino associate John Alite to serve on the town council. By now, many of you have already heard about—or read  the big New York Post story  on—John Alite’s latest gig serving as a councilman for Englishtown, a small town of around 2,300 residents in New Jersey's Monmouth County. (Fun fact:  Vito Genovese purchased property  there in 1935 and had the grounds redesigned to resemble Naples, Italy. The gardens of the estate—which include a fake volcano—can still be perused today.) Alite’s move into politics doesn’t really surprise us—pretty much nothing does these days. This nation last November elected a twice-impeached convicted felon to the office of President of the United States. In fa...

" Johnny Alite went to jail. In jail he met people from Philadelphia and Atlantic City. He (wound) up hanging out with the New Jersey mob, then came to Florida. He stole all these businesses from every person. You think he would give me a penny? He didn't give me a quarter; not a penny, not one red cent. Not one red cent did I get. And I swear that on my other arm, that I should lose the use of it. Not one red cent ..."--from the 2006 opening statement of Gambino capo Ronnie One-Arm Trucchio on trial in Miami for racketeering and extortion.... In 2015, Gotti's Rules, written by George Anastasia, hit bookstores to tell the inside story of Gambino enforcer John Alite, who was once a close associate of John (Junior) Gotti, who he later testified against. Now, Mafia International lets John Alite tell his story in his own words. (It is not a comprehensive autobiography however.) Since Gotti's Rules , John Alite has been a steady presence on the blogosphere. Using soc...

UPDATE 2 Gang Land News this week offered new details and corroboration for a story we first wrote more than five years ago when former Gambino associate John Alite spoke to us prior to the release of George Anastasia's Gotti Rule s. John Alite and John Junior As reported  then, in 2005, Alite told us, the Gambino family hierarchy got word to him -- while he was fighting extradition to the US from a Brazilian prison -- that John (Junior) Gotti was talking to the Feds. "John Gotti's son is a rat! That should be the biggest news in the world!" he said. When Alite learned of the 302  he'd been in the process, he told us , of helping former Gambino capo Ronnie (One-Arm) Trucchio, who was on trial, when Alite got the word via an illegal cellphone  that John Junior had proffered and that a 302 had been floated. Alite said that the 302 (the existence of which had been reported previously, but this blog published the actual document ) had been given to the Gamb...

"I’d like find out what he says about John Alite. I just don't know what to think as there's so many contradictory opinions on him; it'd be nice hear his thoughts and input." This story focuses on Anthony Ruggiano Jr., John Alite, and John Junior....The next installment will address multiple comments.... Anthony Junior, back to us in middle, Junior, left, Skinny Dom, right. When John Alite played Little League, his coach was Albert Ruggiano, the younger brother of Anthony Junior, though the Ruggiano-Alite relationship went back another generation, Anthony Junior recently told us. Anthony Junior, 66, didn't pop up out of nowhere, actually. A longtime Gambino associate (he came close, so damn close to being made! ), he defected in 2006 and testified in several trials against mobsters including Gambino capo Dominick (Skinny Dom) Pizzonia and powerful Gambino boss Bartolomeo (Bobby Glasses) Vernace, and Gambino wiseguy Charles Carneglia. He also gave...

 “He deserved it. He had it coming. He was slamming our family all over the place. Especially John the boss, (who) didn’t deserve that.” -- Gambino capo Mikie Scars In October 2018, Curtis Sliwa, as leader of New York’s Reform Party, spent a Saturday on Long Island campaigning with his wife, an animal-rights activist then running for New York state attorney general. Sliwa and Junior Gotti. The couple were at the Oyster Bay Oyster Festival when John Junior Gotti, former Gambino acting boss and son of the former official boss, approached the Guardian Angels founder and, between puffs on a cigar, told him, “You know, I’m a supporter of animal rights.” “He wasn’t being a wiseguy. He was serious,” Sliwa later told the New York Post, which reported on how Gotti and Sliwa had spent a cordial five minutes chatting and then shaking hands. What a sight that must have been to onlookers. It wasn’t real. “I had to put (the bad blood) aside that day for the good of our Reform P...

EXPANDED Put on your seatbelts and enjoy the ride: we're about to see how these Capitol Hill politicos play their version of War of the Godfathers -- I've taken sides, but will say no more about that, other than my decision is not based on free will so much as, my BS detector has no off switch , and once I catch a whiff of da smell o’ bullshit, I can't manipulate the natural reaction...  John Junior, left, Curtis Sliwa. And if you think, ah, politicos don't kill each other, all we’ll say is: who's being naïve now, Kate...?   (But you are correct, they don't kill each other...they mostly rant in front of cameras.) And in other news this week: The bad blood seemed to be boiling over again between members of the Gotti family and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa… as per a recent Page Six item…. The family is livid about a Page Six story on a wedding Sliwa and John Gotti Jr. attended over the weekend. We wrote that Sliwa and Junior ...

How do you get inherent lawbreakers to follow laws.... John Gotti and Joe Butch outside the Ravenite social club . (Source NYPost) That was the question that  confronted Charles (Lucky) Luciano and others at the dawn of the American Mafia, the 1931 reorganization of organized crime, when the men running America's Mafia decided to once and for all optimize their "thing" for efficient plunder. Each member of the "board of directors" had one vote, and the majority determined the decrees that were issued forth. By putting in place such a construct, Luciano effectively did away with the entity that previously served as the mob's top governing body. The  capo di tutti i capi  or  capo dei capi,  the "boss of all bosses" or "boss of [the] bosses," was no longer, though if Luciano had wanted to hold that position, he likely would've met with little dissent. ( One almost can't help recalling a sliver of basic Am...