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"I told him that we knew. We found out exactly what he did (and) why he did it... " --Sammy The Bull on Louie Milito In one of the more (darkly) humorous installments in this otherwise grim series, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano testifies about disarming and setting up Liborio (Louie) Milito to be killed by telling him the falsehood that “we were going to kill Johnny Gammarano, that was basically our plan.” Gambino mobster Louie Milito was decidedly unlucky. Why tell Milito that? For one thing, he would believe it ---  because he knew that John Gotti hated Johnny Gammarano . As Gravano said, “John was always talking, bad-mouthing Johnny Gammarano , talking about him, and Louie believed it right away, that he was going to be killed .” What got Louie in trouble in the first place was spectacularly bad timing. He apparently had cozied up to Tommy Bilotti and Paul Castellano at the worst possible moment -- right before John Gotti killed the both of them. (Milito himself miss...

Lynda Milito, wife of deceased Gambino soldier Louis Milito, and author of Mafia Wife, took issue with a new reality show and its leading star. Karen Gravano, who appears on Mob Wives, the VH1 reality show, is "giving Staten Island a bad name." "She doesn't know what she's talking about. How can she? She was only 13 when her father did what he did and my husband disappeared." Milito, 64, was "furious" that Gravano, 38, daughter of turncoat Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, was writing a book about life in the mob. "I feel bad for Staten Island," said Milito, formerly of Todt Hill, who had moved to tony Boca Raton, Fla. "She is giving Staten Island a bad name. Because of her, there will be a stigma attached to Staten Island. Am I talking as a Mafia wife? Yes. The 'Mob Wives' like her should be ashamed because they are behaving like animals. Those people are resembling their own background. I am out...