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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...

A Howard Beach-based newspaper publisher has been sentenced to five months in prison for attempting to threaten a sex crime victim's father on behalf of a Bonanno crime family aassociate. Robert Pisani, alleged associate of the Bonanno crime family. (They used to hide their face just for being wiseguys.) Patricia Adams, who operates the weekly Forum Newsgroup, threatened to use her position as publisher to have a hatchet piece written and published in a Queens newspaper about a woman who had accused a mobbed-up deli owner of a sex crime. Adams was sentenced on Oct. 11. She also must pay a fine of $200, though the full restitution amount has not yet been determined. Adams had pleaded guilty on June 25 to misprision of a felony, acknowledging her efforts to conceal the felonious crime of interfering in the sex assault case against Robert Pisani, an associate in acting capo Ronald Giallanzo's Bonanno crime family crew . Pisani was among a group of 10 reputed Bonanno ...

A Brooklyn federal court judge yesterday (August 15) sentenced acting Bonanno capo Ronald Giallanzo to 14 years behind bars for running a loansharking operation that she said terrorized a Queens neighborhood for nearly 20 years. A cting Bonanno capo Ronald Giallanzo Giallanzo, whose uncle is Bonanno mobster Vincent Asaro, and nine other Bonanno members and associates were arrested last year on a broad swath of criminal charges, including racketeering, kidnapping, robbery, and attempted murder in Brooklyn federal court. Ronnie G pleaded guilty in March to running the loansharking ring and was ordered to forfeit his $1.25 million mansion on 86th Street in Howard Beach, which he "built with his ill-gotten gains." On top of that, he still owes $268,000 in restitution to five loansharking victims. Prosecutors said the 48-year-old acting capo ran gambling and extortion rackets in Howard Beach since 1998. As per the indictment, Giallanzo and an associate o...

UPDATED, PHOTOS ADDED John Alite's new book, Darkest Hour, is part of a planned trilogy written with  author S.C. Pike that details John Alite's early years. John Alite signs his new book. John Alite signaled from the beginning, nearly six years ago in May 2012, that he was taking a different approach following prison after testifying against ex-Gambino acting boss John (Junior) Gotti. (Alite also testified against Charles Carneglia, whose brother is getting out soon with Gene Gotti , in June 2019 and September 2019, respectively.)  Alite never intended to disappear and pop-up in Tucson, Arizona, under an assumed name. While John Alite failed in his attempt to help put Junior away, the Feds thought highly enough of him to spring him early, granting him a five-year supervised release stint that enabled John to spend Easter Sunday in Howard Beach, where he ate a holiday dinner ensconced with his family. “I’m shocked,” a former Howard Beach neighbor to...

“My father went through twenty damn years of aggravation, my mother’s a nervous wreck, my brothers and sisters are all wrecks. Where is all this honor and this baloney? You can’t believe in this damn oath when you’ve got a family to think of. What about them? My mother’s been alone for seventeen years. So which is the more honorable stand? My father’s position is: This is how I’ve lived all my life, and I don’t want anybody to ever say that I was a rat or a snitch, so I’m gonna die this way. O.K. I guess I can relate to that. But I’m in a different position. I’m thirtysomething years old. I’ve got six children, I’ve got a young wife. And I’ll be damned if I’m gonna put them through what my family had to go through. Especially for something I no longer believe in." --Michael Franzese John (Sonny) Franzese was convicted of masterminding bank robberies back in the 1960s. Many have long believed Franzese was framed. A classic bit of self-justifying bullshit among some law enfo...

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.

For Bucky Cosa Nostra News Exclusive The most infamous gangland hit of the 20th century was the December 1985 execution of Gambino boss Paul Castellano, who was shot six times, and his driver/underboss Thomas Bilotti, shot four times, outside Sparks Steak House in midtown Manhattan. Paul Castellano, formerly Gambino boss, died December 1985. Castellano was the precursor to John Gotti, the man who Gotti had to kill to rise to the top. The story of why Paul Castellano was killed has been the topic of books, films, magazine articles, newspaper stories and television documentaries, the details of the hit have been recounted again and again Owing to heavy mainstream interest in his high-profile successor, Castellano has been given short shrift; he's been mocked, derided and trivialized, cast as a deliberate foil to John Gotti, the polished, well-groomed "gangster from central casting." Castellano wasn't a tough guy; he thought he was a Fortune 500 CEO. He deliber...