[to be continued], Over Zoom sessions and sitdownsat an Italian restaurant in South Jersey, where the men live, Alite and Gentile told their stories. John Alite, the star prosecution witness in John "Junior" Gotti's racketeering and murder trial, said Victoria was wearing dark glasses when she showed up at a Queens social club he owned. Gotti. I think all these guys exaggerate somewhat . I think he is an embarrassment to humanity and to society. I could have said, Please come up onto the deck, youre under arrest. Another suspect let his dog loose on Dave, prompting the agent to toss the man, who weighed perhaps 300 pounds, down a steep flight of stairs. Stemming from the racketeering charges in Florida, the authorities found Johnny to be involved in a lot of other crimes as well. Georgie Grosso I pulled the trigger, shot him three times in the back of the head in a car. Alite is in bottom row, fifth from the right. Gentile recommended a lawyer he knew that might lay out options. And some of his allegations have been outrageous that he has directed at John. My cousin Billy Kaso, actually we battedhim. Thus, to avoid a lengthy stay in prison, in 2008, he pleaded guilty to two murders, four murder conspiracies, at least eight shootings, two attempted shootings, armed home invasions, and armed robberies around New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Yeah, I shot a lotta guys. His brother Jimmy was then defending Junior Gotti and now Jimmy just did an interview with his brother John. John Alite & Felix Levine are BACK together after a few years away from doing their highly popular show together. One of his nicknames was The Calculator due to his financial acumen. September, 2020. His main focus was labor racketeering in Philadelphia, which was then flooded with corrupt unions extorting businesses, and he worked some of the citys biggest mafia cases. From what the five major mob families were doing to how the FBI worked to get them dismantled by having the top bosses arrested, it covered everything. Brooklyn, circa 1991. He was associated with the Gambino family there and led a crew in the city which extorted rival valet businesses. #johnalite New York, USA linktr.ee/johnalite Joined December 2009. For the songs, Alite was asked questions about his past, and then fired away without a script, says David Nash, whose London-based company (Fat Pigeon Music Publishing) is producing the album. He joined the Bureau in 1979 and quickly developed a reputation for not letting bureaucratic protocols get in his way as he hounded the bad guys mercilessly. Frankie Geekie I did, And the number of people you shot, who survived? Even FBI agents had respect. The men were once so close that Alite got married on Juniors birthday as a show of respect to him (with Junior his best man.) Not so with the 2009 Gotti case, which resulted in the fourth (of four) hung juries that finally allowed Junior to be free of the feds. By being an open book about the details of his violence, perhaps no skeletons can leap forward to bite him. I told him, You go back and tell your guys that next time you want to talk to this doctor, you come and see me. That ended that., Gentiles first big racketeering case was his 1982 takedown of Bernard Marcus, a much-feared boss of a Teamsters union who had extorted businesses all over Philly for nearly three decades. When John would get a headache, he had a brain tumor; he went from a stubbed toe to cancer, recalls Charlotte Braziel, a former FBI agent who was part of his debriefing team. . THAT WAS THEN: John "Junior" Gotti (left), with John Alite holding his baby son, Jimmy. (This was confirmed earlier this year by the Gambino familys house lawyer in a conversation with Gangland Newss Jerry Capeci, the dean of mob reporters.) And I told my therapist that. [2] Alite's first wife was Carol, and his second wife was Claudia DiPippa; he has four children. Time and again, we were able to corroborate and verify, through victims and other evidence, the information provided by John, who Trezevant says also helped them solve very old cold-case murders. John wonders if his personal redemption (and work with delinquent or at-risk kids) can lead to endorsement opportunities. And when a mobster was shaking down a doctor friend for $500,000,Dave sped through red lights to the scene. John Leguizamo offers up a simple inspiration for his latest series. Whyyou? Alite today is making ends meetby building houses to flip in Pennsylvania, co-owning an auto repair and sales shop, and until last year owning a pizzeria. (He got his nickname due to a deformed arm from a car accident.) He says he came away at times feeling that Alite was embellishing. He began associating with "made" members and associates of the Philadelphia crime family, as well as the independent 10th & Oregon Crew. [26], Alite later became a youth motivational speaker on avoiding crime. (It was declared a mistrial.) The event took place in September in Camden, New. Its was just something I felt compelled to do. Fear City: New York vs the Mafia is a new Netflix limited series documentary that examines the issue of organized crime in New York City. (In fact, Gotti did rat, in a sitdown with the FBI in 2005. It took courage on Dave's part not to report the friendship initially. John Alite, John Edward Alite, or more commonly known as Johnny Alletto, was associated with the Gambino crime family. I can't verify all his stories . (Ohhe sometimes used a blackjack, which is a short, weighted and concealable bludgeoning device.) John Alite Once a mobster for Gambino Family, now an advocate against living a life of crime. I batted a guy in the city for Vinny and the Philly mob with the okay from Gotti. And, we bet, like us, youre curious to know more about him. (Im sorry for ranting like this, he said at the end of a 3 -hour phone call. John Alite was a legend. We talk. BOTTOM: Junior leaving the courthouse, with Alite to his left (behind), and attorney Gerald Shargel to his right. In photo's far right: Peter "One Eyed Pete" Gotti, who became boss after Junior. Their remarkable bond developed slowly and by chance 20 years ago (when Alite was still a hitman and Gentile still a G-Man). That year, Alite pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, including two murders and a variety of other crimes, and in 2011, was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison. [19], Alite was also a government witness in the unsuccessful racketeering trial against John Gotti Jr.[20] Prosecutors indicted Gotti for racketeering and murder conspiracy charges, stemming from an alleged drug trafficking ring in Florida, and the murders of George Grosso in 1988, Louis DiBono in 1990 and Bruce John Gotterup in 1991. How to Watch Leguizamo Does America Today: Date: April 16, 2023 Time: 9:00 p.m. If you are a friend of ours [La Cosa Nostra] and you sit down with the feds, and you give them information where they have a 302, it's a death sentence. As they recall, it was in late 1999 or early 2000 and took place at a hockey rink not far from their respective New Jersey homes. The world that I was a part of would have slaughtered Johnny Alite. I blackjacked Frankie Lap. I batted a guy that threw a pool ball at me at P.M. Pub. But the agent could see that Alite was sliding into a state of mental turmoil and torment. The relationship that ensued was probably one in a million., Many years later, when members of Gentiles extended family were told about the friendship, they wondered why he would have put himself, his career, and potentiallythemin danger or jeopardy. The Gottis wanted nothing to do with the Burkes, but Alite ignored Junior when he told him to stay away from Frankie. He was sometimes combative and seemed to struggle just to be inhaling the same air as Gotti. That buddy of his was John Alite, a onetime murder-machine for the Gambino clanone of the famed "Five Families" of New York organized crime. 260 Following. I didnt keep a scorecard in my house and write down one more notch. The Groomsmen: Vicki Gotti's 1984 wedding to Carmine "The Bull" Agnello (alongside her), who [+] allegedly put out a contract on Alite a decade later. But hes more of a man than probably 90% of the people Ive interfaced with. Um, Mike Livigni in Port O Call. That buddy of his was John Alite, a onetime murder-machine for the Gambino clanone of the famed Five Families of New York organized crime. What does Phil's EX-WIFE reveal about their time together? Jack Teixeira was taken at about 1:30 p.m. and a . Business Offers diamondpublishing@yahoo.com. He calls himself a re-made man, and it seems like he is. At center [+] is Gambino family soldier Frank Radice. [13], Alite later led a crew in Tampa, Florida that extorted rival valet businesses, and reported to Gambino capo Ronald Trucchio. Gentile says he never debriefed Alite, nor did he even suggest (until after John became a fugitive) that his pal become an informant. Joseph Rejent | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. Newell adds that he was asked by a Gotti relative that same year to whack Alite, but the hit was called off. Richie Gottis son-in-law who we left on the side of the Belt Parkway, I batted him, I left him there for dead The Kuzanowski brothers, two of them I baseball-batted. The defense's strategy was to portray Mr. Alite as a vicious, brutal killer. I first met Dave in 1990, when he was a Philadelphia-based FBI agent specializing in labor racketeering cases. Its a relationship that a lot of people unfortunately would never begin to understand, orwantto understand, or dont have the capacity to understand, and I dont care about that at this point in my life., This is a BETA experience. Alite says he once beat up Genie Gotti, Juniors uncle, in prison. Alite met the lawyer, but three weeks later Gentile received calls from Alites family saying he was missing. He served two years in prison in Brazil and was eventually extradited to federal authorities in Tampa, for trial in 2006. Case in point: John Alite an Albanian, but once a member of Gambino boss John A. They knew that it was a fucking game. The ex-agent was raised in a small town in upstate New York, the son of immigrants from Naples who had limited means. [16] Later that year, Alite was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm in violation of a parole agreement and spent three years in prison. Born on September 30, 1962, in Queens, New York City, he grew up in Woodhaven, Queens, in the same neighborhood as John Gotti, the former boss of the Gambino family. He just had to lose those demons he was dealing with. Gotti has since done a few contortions to explain the proffer as a moment of weakness in his life and a mistake, but also insists he was just trying to game the FBI by pretending to be a rat. Aside from being a source of legitimate income, Alite used his valet parking businesses as a means of laundering money he was making from drug dealing, gambling and loansharking. But Gentile wasnt always a team player, plus his John Wayne demeanor had softened due to the deaths of his daughtersone of whom died in a car accident a month before her wedding (and just months before he met Alite.) BOTTOM: Junior leaving the courthouse, with Alite to his left (behind), and attorney Gerald Shargel to his right. For reasons unclear, the feds and Gotti didnt move forward with the cooperation. Gentile, who has spent long hours with him on the project, has some gaming experience to make sure it stays kosher:he once worked as an executive for a gaming group, responsible for background checks on vendors. The men attended Yankee games, a Tyson fight, and meals together. 0:49. They don't charge me; they don't have the bodies. NO ANGEL IN WHITE: Alite flanked by pals outside "Our Friends" a Gotti family social club in [+] Brooklyn, circa 1991. Back at his office, Gentile entered Alites name into an FBI database. (Facebook). There's only a handful of individuals that I would trust with my life, and with my honor as a person, and one of those is John Alite. Run by: @Kasparoza. A friendship blossomed. In 1994, 10th & Oregon Crew leader Louie Turra reportedly attempted to solicit Alite as a hitman to kill Joey Merlino in a dispute over a "street tax", an offer which Alite turned down as he felt the Turra gang were "cowboys". Scene: Alite's house in South Jersey, 1991. For insight, it even had various interviews from everyone involved, including attorneys, special agents, and mob figures. He also co-hosts a podcast called the Johnny & Gene Show, in which he interviews ex-mobsters. Hell, no. They werent big enough thinkers to understand., For another take on this, I reached out to a retired New York-based FBI agent who doesnt know Gentile:Wesley Wong, who joined the Bureau in 1976, three years before Gentile did. They don't charge me with the murder. But he dodged a life sentence by helping the. Manny I shot in Ridewood for, I think were good. Living there, it was no surprise that Johnny became friends with his son, John A. Gotti. They range from the FBIs Otto and prosecutor Trezevant,to a cold-case homicide detective and Gambino family specialist named Steve Kaplan who had tried (fruitlessly) to turn him against Gotti in the late 1980s. "Most fighters have an edge to them; it doesn't make them murderers." - John Alite As a thug, Alite got rich from the usual gangster stuff like extortion, loansharking, drug-trafficking and illegal sports gamblingwhile washing the profits through legitimate assets. But his biggest move is to try and launch an online gambling venture based in South America, for which he travelled to many countries to study gambling parlors and speak with online betting experts. His history speaks for itself. When asked if Alite was a family associate right up until 2006, when he returned from Brazil and started cooperating with the feds, Scala says Absolutely. The funeral was kept to a small number of relatives and friends, including Alite, who was like a sergeant-at-arms guarding the casket where my grandson was, says Dave, his voice breaking. These are just names I know, theres a million guys I dont know, that I batted because Gotti told me to bat. Government witness and racketeering convictions, "A dirty, rotten, double crossing (true) story of what happened to the Italian American mob", "From the archives: From a Brazilian prison, John Alite talks Gotti and fights extradition", "John Alite n Kosov: Do formoja ushtrin time, sikur ta dija q shqiptart jan kaq trima", "Rrfehet mafiozi shqiptar me origjin nga Gjirokastra: Si e rrzova perandorin e krimit t 'Cosa Nostra-s', "John A. Were not looking to kill each other. Newell laughs. As a hood, he had done dozens of robberies and surely could have lent a unique perspective. No John, youre not dying, but youre under stress all the time. It happens every day.. Junior sat secretly for whats known as a proffer, a negotiation in which a target shares information that cannot be used against him. South Florida was under siege and under water Thursday amid a storm that dumped 25 inches of rain over some coastal areas, flooding homes and highways and forcing the shutdown of a major . And I believe the jury disregarded the [cooperation] agreement made with this mass murderer., I also reached out to John Riley, a longtime court reporter who covered the trial forNewsday. His second wife is Claudia DiPippa, who is the sister of a Gambino associate. You only know part of the story, Gianni Russo as the backup shooter. I always toast my fatherthis is to the chief.And then I say, Oh, here's to Johnny Alite.I always toast him. I told them [FBI] about him. Their deeply-personal blood feud has gone virtual, having bled out into social media. (photo: Haddenfield, NJ), Not surprisingly, Gentiles views of Gotti Jr are unflattering. A career on Wall Street was also cut short: He passed his Series 7 brokerage exam, but a prior felony on the books kept getting him fired from jobs. Dave talked him down, but he didnt listen and batted the guy anyway. Anybody I knew in that world would have made an example of him from a telephone pole. Camden, NJ one of America's most violent cities. [3][4] Alite grew up in the same neighborhood as John Gotti's son, John A. Gotti, with whom he was boyhood friends. Now, a lot of people don't get killed. (Arillottahimself, in fact, since he became a cooperator a decade ago. But Junior liked Alite, he didnt want to kill him, said Scars. Alite phoned Gentile collect from around the world, including from Brazil prisons on smuggled phones. For six years, until he retired from the FBI, he trained police commanders and detectives with seminars on leadership, management, and ethics. ARRIVEDERCI! Beatings you doled out, John? I had an empire. Through most of his life, Alite was good at dodging the Daves of the world, but his rap sheet grew:Convictions for aggravated assault, an illegal gun, even smuggling a fellow inmates sperm to a fertility clinic (long story), and smuggling wine, cheese and pasta into a prison. [2] He was Gotti's best man at his wedding in 1990. You fag! Gotti exploded Youre a punk. The series is hosted by American actor John . Alite also began cooperating against fellow mobsters, many of whom had started ratting on he and others while he was a fugitive. But he refused to aid a fugitive, and kept telling Alite (heatedly at times) that he had to come in and face the music of what you did and change your life. But some find that hard to swallow, given that Alite was the star witness, and that the jurywhich deliberated for 11 days until deadlocked ended up pretty evenly split on the counts. 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