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On Wednesday, March 14, in Brooklyn Federal District Court, John J. Gotti, the grandson and namesake of the Gambino crime family boss , was sentenced to five years in prison. Gotti Howard Beach home. Last June, Gotti pleaded guilty to torching the car of someone who'd had the audacity to cut off aging Bonnano capo Vincent Asaro on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, Queens . Gotti also admitted that two weeks after the road-rage episode, he and two others — after presenting a note that said they had a bomb — robbed $6,000 from a Maspeth, Queens, bank. Gotti was arrested in August 2016 -- on the exact same day that the Fed's rounded up dozens of wiseguys in the East Coast LCN Enterprise case.  The only trial that resulted from that case so far was the recent Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino mistrial. Gotti's attorney, Charles Carnesi, who also defended his uncle, told the judge in his client's defense that just before the arson and bank robbery charges...

The main snitch in the Vinny Asaro-John Gotti federal racketeering case is a Bonanno crime family associate, 32, whose criminal career began when he was 19 years old. Today Gang Land News reported  that the turncoat, Gene Borrello, "is the key witness in three major mob roundups pulled by the feds last month..." Gene Borrello is the key turncoat. "These include the automobile arson case against mob capo Vincent Asaro and John J. Gotti, grandson of the late Dapper Don. Another is The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight racketeering indictment against Asaro's wiseguy nephew, Ronald (Ronnie G)  Giallanzo.  

Two reputed mobsters indicted last week with Vinny Asaro and John Gotti , grandson of the former Gambino crime family boss, allegedly robbed a Franklin Square jewelry store -- and attempted to rob two other jewelry stores in the same Long Island Nassau County town six years ago, the Feds revealed today. Your fearless blogger grew up in Elmont, a town adjacent to Franklin Square. SEE THE ASARO-GOTTI BONANNO CREW INDICTMENT The two alleged mob associates, Darren Elliot, 30, and Matthew (Mack) Hattley, 26, both of Queens, were arrested on robbery, attempted robbery and firearms offenses, among other charges and arraigned last week at Brooklyn federal court with seven other Bonanno crime family members and associates, including Gotti and Asaro.

SLIGHTLY REVISED :  John Gotti 's grandson and namesake thought he was en route to an eight-year prison sentence at a correctional facility in upstate New York called Fishkill. Instead, he was ferried to Brooklyn Federal court and brought before a judge alongside reputed  Bonanno mobster Vincent Asaro, 82, and five alleged Bonanno associates to face a new indictment on arson and bank burglary charges. Michael Guidici at the Maspeth Federal Savings and Loan. Allegedly  he wasn't there to make a deposit. If everything is what it seems, this is could be a difficult case for the defendants as the Feds have a turncoat intimately involved. In addition, John Gotti's girlfriend allegedly was involved in the bank job though her status in the Fed's case is unclear. Apparently she hasn't been charged in the indictment. Fed's have in the past braced wives and girlfriends allegedly involved in criminal activity to pressure defendants to cop pleas, if not flip....

Former Gambino crime family boss John Gotti's grandson copped to a plea deal in a drug-dealing case. He will serve eight years in prison. He faced a pretty strong case. He was recorded on a wiretap stating that he sold more than 4,200 pills a month for a $100,000 return. John Gotti's grandson arrested last August. Undercover cops allegedly made 11 buys from Gotti, purchasing $46,000 worth of Oxycodone. He faced up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted. At Queens Supreme Court today, Gotti, 23, pleaded guilty to three charges stemming from the Operation Beach Party investigation that focused on him and a Queens-based drug operation he reportedly headed up. Once he serves the sentence, he has five years of supervised release; he also will forfeit $259,996, under terms of the agreement. The sentencing was slated for March 2.

John Gotti's namesake and grandson is considering a plea deal, his attorney said, after the 23-year-old appeared in court this past Wednesday. ( See video at end of story with NYPD Police Chief. ) "We’re just ironing out some details," lawyer Gerard Marrone told The New York Post.  Gotti grandson and girlfriend; we blurred her face. ( Source ) John Gotti "plans to remain behind bars as a “good faith” gesture," the Post reported as well. In a previous hearing the judge had ordered bail of $2 million.

The late John Gotti’s grandson (and namesake) was granted bail of $2 million in a late-December hearing. At the same time, Gotti, whose father is Peter Gotti, brother of former Gambino acting boss John "Junior" Gotti, was hit with additional conspiracy counts. (No details about these new counts were readily available.) John Gotti, the grandson. Queens Supreme Court Justice Charles LoPresto decided that the grandson of the former legendary Gambino crime family boss should be allowed out on bail, though he's not going anywhere until a "bail sufficiency" ✶  hearing is held.

In a previous story, we incorrectly noted that Victoria Gotti's ex-husband,  Carmine Agnello, was is in jail pending a racketeering case . That's not the case, as a Gotti spokesperson icily remarked in a Facebook message. Agnello is out on a $100,000 personal bond, which a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge set. Agnello also was to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet. Agnello is charged with running a $3 million scrap metal scam out of his Cleveland auto body and salvage yard. One report raised the question of whether Agnello was following a common practice in the scrap recycling business. In the story, Cleveland 19 noted that it had submitted to Cuyahoga County video of what may be evidence of another scrap yard doing something similar to what Agnello is accused of doing.