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“If it don’t have to do with our mother or father, stay away from me!” -- John Gotti to Pete Gotti, as per FBI bug. It was clear as crystal from the beginning that the Feds wanted Pete Gotti, 79, the late John Senior's older brother, to rot in jail until senility set in. And now that that has happened, we still doubt that the Fed's would agree to any kind of motion that includes the word "compassion" anywhere in it -- if its goal is springing an old wiseguy from prison.  There's no compassion for lifelong Mafiosi -- unless they flip. Not opinion. Or to borrow a recently coined phrase: The cruelty is the point. The Fed's clearly had it in for Pete Gotti back in 2005. He was 65 and minding his own business while serving a 9.5-year stretch for labor racketeering, extortion, and money laundering on a 2003 conviction. Then the Fed's up and saddle him with an additional 25 years for a seemingly made-for-TV revenge-murder conspiracy to kill Salvato...

John Gotti most certainly never would've done what his eldest brother is attempting to do. Peter Gotti with Ronnie One-Arm Trucchio. And it's certainly not something in brother Gene 's vocabulary. Gene, now a capo in the Gambino crime family, served 30 years in prison, and notably refused to seek early release to a halfway house when he had the opportunity. He was released last year, after serving out his full sentence. Peter Gotti seems to be following in the footsteps of another John Gotti, the one with Junior for a nickname. Former lead decision- maker on a Gambino family ruling panel (and a nephew to Peter), Junior Gotti publicly disavowed the Gambino family back in 2005. Four times between then and 2009, federal prosecutors tried--and failed--to convict him on racketeering charges Even though the filing says nothing about his current status in the Gambino family, by filing the compassionate release motion, Peter Gotti also is tacitly stepping down...

UPDATED Reputed sitting Gambino boss Peter Gotti's compassionate release filing (reproduced in its entirety below) poses several arguments for his release, including that he suffers from more than a dozen medical ailments, including cardiovascular disease and a likely cancerous growth in at least one lung; that he's rehabilitated as well as sorry; and that his continued incarceration is financially irresponsible. Peter Gotti and John Gotti As first reported by Gang Land News  last Thursday (July 4) in Forgottiboutit! Dapper Don's Brother Says He's Done With The Mob; Wants Out of Prison , James Craven, the attorney representing Gotti, filed the motion in Manhattan federal court on June 28. Gotti, 79, has been in custody since June 4, 2002, and is serving a 25-year term on a federal racketeering conviction. He is now at FMC Butner, North Carolina. His slated release date is May 5, 2032. " In hindsight Peter Gotti made a terrible mistake in goin...

Alleged Colombo crime family soldier Angelo Spata (pictured) was among the 100-plus mobsters arrested in the big 2011 bust known as  Mafia Takedown Day .  Angelo Spata does a Carlo Gambino grin for media. (I used Spata's photograph in a story once, without knowing much about him. This led to an interesting conversation with Michael DiLeonardo. If you're interested in the backstory, you can read it  here in the original version  of this story published in early summer 2016. ) Angelo Spata was an up and coming member of the Colombo crime family because, some might say, he married well. Through marriage, he became a somebody, specifically, a Persico... Blatant nepotism may be frowned upon in the workplace, but it's alive and well in Cosa Nostra, and arguably has never been more important to the remaining Mafia presence in the USA (for better or worse). When Angelo started out as a mob associate, he was with the Gambino crime family, along ...

Cosa Nostra News Exclusive First, the following  string of comments is from a previous story ; this is simply to set  this  story's backdrop. Comments are highlighted in yellow to signify their pending significance. ( The comments are no longer following, technically. To make the story easier to read I placed them on another page, but we'll get to that. ) Angelo Spata does a Carlo Gambino grin for media. The comments, edited for clarity and space, offer several revelations: 1.) Former Gambino crime family captain  Michael "Mikie Scars" DiLeonardo wasn't involved in that blog story or the related discussion until "several" commenters blasted him. (The quotes around several are because the various names used were actually one person; this person seemed to have a strong proclivity to defend Angelo "Little Angelo" Spata.) However, since the commenter said nothing substantial to indicate he possessed special knowledge, he may have bee...