Their remarkable bond developed slowly and by chance 20 years ago (when Alite was still a hitman and Gentile still a G-Man). His brother Jimmy was then defending Junior Gotti and now Jimmy just did an interview with his brother John. John Edward Alite, or more commonly known as Johnny Alletto, was associated with the Gambino crime family. Alite has estimated that he shot between 30 and 40 people, beat about 100 people with a baseball bat, and murdered six people. In 2008, Alite pled guilty to involvement in the 1996 murder of Gebert. 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. is Gambino family soldier Frank Radice. "Junior" Gotti in 2008. The one in Brazil in jail. But this time he was in no position to kill anyone. Another photo taken years earlier, in 1984, shows Gotti Jr, Alite and Gambino associate/drug dealer John Gebert standing together on a beach pier. I believed in something that dont exist. One member of Alite's crew, Keith Pellegrino, was a drug supplier to the 10th & Oregon gang. From politics to music . 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. Junior Gottis enforcer, as well as business partner. 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. 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. I thought the other law enforcement guys were conning me, but he believed in me. Infighting in the Philadelphia Mafia between rival factions led by John Stanfa and Joey Merlino left the organization in disarray and allowed Alite to take control of the lucrative valet parking business on Delaware Avenue, as well as in South Jersey and Atlantic City, within a year of moving to the area. It was now the hitmans turn to help the agent. Hennigan's first boxing match was a successful one as he pulverized Morenstein with a right hand . Dave sometimes brought little Nicky over to watch Alite and pro boxers spar, so thatI could show a young boy that learning how to defend yourself is something that can be very, very good. Gentile once visited Alite in prison. Does that sound like a rat to you?! He put me on Death Row. Contributing Editor of Investigations, Forbes magazine. The guy I baseball-batted on Jamaica Avenue and 78thStreet was a vegetable. Next Id look to an inexpensive Mens Wearhouse-type chain. Alite is in bottom row, fifth from the right. Podcast on YouTube now ! They love each other, they kiss each otherbrother brother brotherturn your back and someone just picked your pocket. [27] He has four books that he co-wrote, Gotti's Rules (2015),[28] Darkest Hour (2018),[29] Prison Rules (2019),[30] and Mafia International (2021)[31]. The Gottis wanted nothing to do with the Burkes, but Alite ignored Junior when he told him to stay away from Frankie. 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. My life was a mess and now my lifes about a message, Alite said, after Gentile hugged him and handed over the mic. John Alite Facts's Tweets. You have a great deal of talents to make an honest living. He didnt know what to do. He says he came away at times feeling that Alite was embellishing. Due to his cooperation with prosecutors, he was released on a five-year supervised release in 2012. Probation Office claiming that Alite broke the terms of his supervised release in a New Jersey gun case which prompted an investigation that sent Alite back to prison for three months. The defense's strategy was to portray Mr. Alite as a vicious, brutal killer. 1:26. #11 - John Alite & Gene Borrello Talk to Hootie, Former Gambino Associate John Alite 59.8K subscribers Join Subscribe 1.9K Share Save 173K views 2 years ago The Johnny & Gene Show Full. Alite cried over the coffin, as he remembered Nicky playing hockey as a kid on that day two decades ago that he first met Dave. a legal online gambling venture in South America. Alite said he. Follow: @WitsecMafia. I guess those guys today dont have any heart.. In his past life, his body would literally shake before assaulting a fellow hood, and it was often impossible for him to stop unless fellow gangsters pulled him away (which was never easy. Probation Office into allegations that former Gambino associate John Alite violated the terms of his Supervised Release", "Ex-mobster who talked to feds now wants to talk for a living", "Prison Rules: John Alite: 9781692583262", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Alite&oldid=1150117478, Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government, Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 April 2023, at 11:49. A One-In-A-Million Friendship: The G-Man and the Mob Hitman. 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. #johnalite This is why the kid [Junior] didnt belong in the life. Gotti. : The night before Alite (far left) was going to the clink in 1991 for assault, Junior [+] (sitting beside him) threw a party in his honor. Ricky Stratton I shot in the head on the Jackie Robinson Parkway. His second wife is Claudia DiPippa, who is the sister of a Gambino associate. The event took place in September in Camden, New. But hes agoodman., What followed was an hour of bloodcurdling revelations, regrets and warnings. It took courage on Dave's part not to report the friendship initially. #Positivity 9,193 views 1 month ago PART I John. (Alite says he also called Gotti a Whitey BulgerI should be sitting there, you should be up hereyoure a rat. Bolger was one organized crimes most infamous informants.). ThatI couldnt control. (photo: Haddenfield, NJ), Not surprisingly, Gentiles views of Gotti Jr are unflattering. Two songs have been completed for a pending spoken-word album (Its Not Just Gotti and I Left My Family) that are actually quite compelling and can be heard here. Gotti says Alite was a member of his mob crew for barely two years (1989-91) before he chased him away from the family, in part because of a tip that he might have become an informant. Beatings you doled out, John? And Vicki once told theDaily Newsthat her father despised Alite and his disgusting and despicable ways. Juniors other sister, Angel, has nicknamed Alite A-rat on social media, while their mother Victoria has referred to Alite as an insect he would hump a cockroach.Sweet. Gentile says he never debriefed Alite, nor did he even suggest (until after John became a fugitive) that his pal become an informant. It was the same old song. Asked about their feud,former family underboss Sammy Gravano says, They have athing. Alite is in bottom row, fifth from the right. He spoke about shooting dozens of fellow hoods; abandoning his kids as a fugitive; the brutality of his 14 years of prison stintsand about getting betrayed in the mid-2000s by the Gambino mob, then crumbling under the reign of the infamous Gotti family. 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. In late 2006, he was flown in chains in an FBI jet to Florida, where he pled guilty to a long list of crimes ranging from murder, racketeering, kidnapping and drug trafficking, to armed invasions of homes and businesses. What does Phil's EX-WIFE reveal about their time together? But I have to allocute to them when I'm in those [FBI] rooms. Gotti Sr. may not have been intelligent, and his actions brought down the family, but at least he had the material to be a tough guy., Gotti:John Alite is half-a-girl to sit there and try to badmouth my father. He garnered many commendations through a 24-year FBI career, but made superiors cringe at times over his methodology for extracting information, as he calls it. BOTTOM: Junior leaving the courthouse, with Alite to his left (behind), and attorney Gerald Shargel to his right. I said I ain't gonna do it. Wear some Kevlar for it. [2], As federal racketeering indictments were handed down for his group's activities in the Tampa area, Alite fled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in January 2004, and lived and worked in the Copacabana neighborhood, according to the Brazilian Federal Police. John Alite is proven to be lying about not being in Florida "Tampa" on the night of his beat down . Why? Event sponsor: Men Empowering Nations, a faith-based local non-profit. Gentile also co-formed a private investigative company that in 2013 sought a contract to provide guards at a New York airport. Run by: @Kasparoza. (Dale Stephanos) The suspect arrested in the leaking of classified US documents online, 21 . He began associating with "made" members and associates of the Philadelphia crime family, as well as the independent 10th & Oregon Crew. We were successful with this particular jury, showing that we could not let a violent criminal like Mr. Alite get away with his crimes, while Mr. Gotti, who was not violent in our opinion, be convicted. 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. The local group that sponsored the event,Men Empowering Nations, is an awe-inspiring, faith-based nonprofit focused on mentoring. 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. When I told Gotti that Gravano recalls Alite as a good guy and stand-up enforcer for the Gambino family, Gotti snapped: Hes lyingand asserts that Gravano did not even knowofAlites existence during his mob years. Echoes Tampa federal prosecutor Jay Trezevant, who brought cases against Alite, Gotti Jr., and other Gambino gangsters:Ourinvestigation revealed that John was a holy terror on the street. For insight, it even had various interviews from everyone involved, including attorneys, special agents, and mob figures. Hedoeshave principles and a strong moral code, she says, adding. 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. [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. Later he featured in a Gamology react video on Hitman 3 where he provided commentary on the game and how it compared to his exploits as a former hitman.[33]. They didnt charge me with the murder. Ricky Red we tied up in a limousine and threw him out with a phone cord around his neck, he lived though. I thought he was dead; he popped out. You know, we watch movies, and we sit there and say, Yeah, okay, that's a movie and Oh, gosh, that's shocking. But then if you actually take a real human being who has done that and morehow thefuckdoes he wake up? 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