Likes. On the other hand, Gotti Jr., a onetime defacto boss of the Gambino family, lambasted Alites bonafides. Today he understands that the hypochondria was his way of not dealing with the underlying causes of what was really bothering me like, Ive got cancer because I didnt want to concentrate on life in jail because Gotti is meeting with the government. Scene: Alite's house in South Jersey, 1991. (photo: Haddenfield, NJ), Maximum Truth-Seeking AI: Musk Says Hes Building TruthGPT In Tucker Carlson Interview, Musk Admits Twitter Purchase Wasnt Financially SmartAnd He Paid Twice What It's Worth, Man Charged With Shooting Black Kansas City Teen Who Went To Wrong House, Prosecutors Say, Hollywood Writers Vote To Authorize StrikeThreatening TV And Film Production, Disgraced Rep. George Santos Announces 2024 Reelection Campaign, Monday, April 17. 33 Following. "I wanted to do a show where people watch this and say, 'I wanna be Latino!' or 'Damn, too bad I'm not Latino . What Gentile is referring to is a 302 that lays out a meeting Junior had with the feds in 2005, just three years after the death of his father, and nearly two years before Alite caved and started flipping. 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.) John was a tough guy on the streets of Queens, he had a reputation. (For example:Papa Johns pizza, whose chairman resigned in 2019 after using a racial slur.) Farkenoathm8-E 1 yr. ago 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 . I didnt care what I have to do to get the job done to bring an indictment. Dave would have come under suspicion if his contacts with Alite would have come to light under different circumstances. It took courage on Dave's part not to report the friendship initially. September, 2020. Hes been been working with a therapist for 15 years to understand and control his temper. Hes not intelligent enough to be in the same room with me.. Normally, a law enforcement agent would inform a superior, and start working the relationship to gain a foothold into a crime family. What does Phil's EX-WIFE reveal about their time together? Alite met the lawyer, but three weeks later Gentile received calls from Alites family saying he was missing. Because that set the tone for all my subsequent Teamster investigations, since my reputation was now out on the street.. Alite also began cooperating against fellow mobsters, many of whom had started ratting on he and others while he was a fugitive. Um, Mike Livigni in Port O Call. 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. I would act out againstanyonewho wanted to see her in a derogatory manner, he recalls. One such individual, who belonged in the latter category, was John Alite. Studio 21's John Ricciutti Interviews John Alite: Hear about the cartels and how the head of the FBI in Mexico intermix, making for a tough case to overcome. Alite says he once beat up Genie Gotti, Juniors uncle, in prison. He was close to signing contracts, he says, but the pandemic has delayed everything. So I look at each day that I get through as another day; I dont look at next year. He helped me a lot mentally when I was falling apart, Caramandi said. 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. He began associating with "made" members and associates of the Philadelphia crime family, as well as the independent 10th & Oregon Crew. You may opt-out by. New York, USA linktr.ee/johnalite Joined December 2009. The men engaged in small talk while watching their kids play. And, trust me, my biggest problem when I went to therapy was not ruining my life to kill that piece of shit [Gotti Jr]. You could say were friends, Newell confirms to Forbes. But he actually speaks highly of me; were friends now. is Gambino family soldier Frank Radice. I can't verify all his stories . @johnalite. Anybody I knew in that world would have made an example of him from a telephone pole. 4,528 Followers. He calls himself a re-made man, and it seems like he is. Brooklyn, circa 1991. The family is livid about a Page Six story on a wedding Sliwa and John Gotti Jr. attended over the weekend. I know theyre murdered, but technically by their [law enforcement] standards, you know, they need a body. Georgie Grosso I pulled the trigger, shot him three times in the back of the head in a car. The retired agent believes it was preordained in the stars. He served as the key role model for Alite to make his painful years-long decision to go straight, rat out mobsters who were ratting on he and others, and deep-six his weaponry. John Alite is telling his truth, But it's his version of the truth. Then, in 2004, as federal racketeering charges were being handed out near his crew in Tampa, he fled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After almost a year of hopping across the globe, John's past would ultimately catch up with him in Brazil. "It's up the river for you John," read the frosting on the cake. Yeah, I shot a lotta guys. 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. This wasnt the first time Gentile helped a mobster to morph. Scene: Alite's house in South Jersey, 1991. Run by: @Kasparoza. [2] He was Gotti's best man at his wedding in 1990. com on February 18th I 'followed' over 1,000 people who were following John Alite from the JAF Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts but only to alert them of the website and if one of these people. In his former life, each Christmas season Alite would pass up a cut (or tribute in mob parlance) to his crime bosses, often through a Gambino captain named Ronnie One Arm Trucchio, who is serving life. Back in New York City, another ex-hit man who worked for Gotti, John Alite, blends tales of his "six murders, more than eight shootings, and dozens of baseball battings" with inspirational. 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 guess those guys today dont have any heart.. Whyyou? Man, this isexactlywhat we need, said Camdens mayor that night about Alites and Gentiles appearance. (More on that later, with input from a branding expert.). 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. thingsfallapart89 1 yr. ago I'm blanking was that before or after he organized the Apalachin Meeting with Genovese? One at Mike's Pub in front. Other competing criminals werereallyafraid of him.Even so, he had a warm side in his dealings. Asking Alite to recount his sins is to open Pandoras casketand The Calculator rattles off the victimsfrom memory like a speeding bullet: The ones you murdered, how many? 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". As Alite looks ahead, Gentile is well-placed to help him make safe business decisions. #Positivity 9,193 views 1 month ago PART I John. He taught me to think like a gentleman and not through the eyes of anger in the street that I hadto control my temperament and not react in the violent ways I acted. 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. Junior didnt testify in his 2009 trial, while Alite, donning prison garb and coming across as a beast, was on the stand for seven days, which is almost unheard of for any witness in a mob trial. When the definitive history of the American mafia gets written, it should include a chapter about Alite and Gentile [pronounced AY-lite and Gen-TEEL]. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. [5] In January 2012, he was released on a five-year supervised release; in October 2015, a letter was written to the U.S. Its like an alcoholic or drug addict. Not one human being on account of me ever went to prisonever, he says. He was associated with the Gambino family there and led a crew in the city which extorted rival valet businesses. (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.). Mob reporter Anastasia finds this amusing:If his proffer offer had gone forward,hed have been the Boss of theWITSEC Mafia., Thanks in large part to Alites testimony in 2008, a Gambino soldier named Charles Carneglia was convicted by a jury and is serving life. [21] Alite testified that Gotti was responsible for at least eight murders, among other crimes. [1] Later in life, Alite publicly denounced the life of organized crime and became a motivational speaker, podcaster and books author. One juror told the press that the jury was unanimous in finding Alite the least credible of the witnesses. It was now the hitmans turn to help the agent. And I told my therapist that. 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. I would relish the opportunity to debate him over what he alleges about this so-called cooperation. Business Offers diamondpublishing@yahoo.com. The Crow, betrayed by his own mob boss, testified in 11 trials, resulting in 52 convictions. Donald Trump photo posted by John Alite on open Facebook personality page on 9 November 2022, Palm Beach, FL, United States (John Alite/Facebook) Merlino spent more than a decade in federal. Does that sound like a rat to you?! Caramandi was ruthless in his day, but his violence paled next to Alite, who estimates that he either killed, shot, baseball-batted, piped, or stabbed upwards of100 fellow gangsters, some of whose names he never knew, and probably never will. I blackjacked Frankie Lap. I batted a guy that threw a pool ball at me at P.M. Pub. [8] "Junior" Gotti allegedly ordered Grosso's murder because he had told people he was selling drugs on behalf of Gotti and his father, Gambino boss John J. 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. Alite phoned Gentile collect from around the world, including from Brazil prisons on smuggled phones. Id love to see some forgiveness and humility play out in the media for once., Michaels suggests brands that need redemption and understand a fall from grace might benefit from a John Alite. (Facebook). After graduating high school, Johnny received a baseball scholarship to the University of Tampa, but he dropped out after just three years and completely immersed himself into the world of Mafia. Alite was born on September 30, 1962, in the Queens borough of New York City and grew up in Woodhaven, Queens. It was dismantled by the government. Even so, he broke the mob oath ofomerta[silence] by accusing various mobsters, politicians and a police detective of crimes, and telling the feds about a family plan to convert a garbage dump into a prison that would be sold to the city for $20 million. His relationship with Gotti Jr had soured years earlier, he says, so hed kept away from Gotti physically for the better part of a decade. David Gentile, retired FBI agent, Without a doubt, Dave saved my life. Alite says he was one of three partners with Gotti Sr. in a sports betting operation. 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. I started up the [proffer] by saying I didnt stab anybody. The document, however, has Gotti confessing to stabbing a man (who later died from knife wounds) after a melee in a bar. This courtroom sketch shows Jack Teixeira during his arraignment in Boston on Friday. [5], On April 26, 2011, Alite was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison. One I shot in Forest Park on Baby Carriage Lane. 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. Ive heard Alites stories hundreds of times,says Scala, the retired FBI Gambino expert. Gotti. But he dodged a life sentence by helping the. He invited the kids to call or visit him anytime they felt a need. I thought he was dead; he popped out. "It's up the river for you John," read the frosting on the cake. Alite also launched Alite Sports, a consulting outfit based in Colorado that pairs novice gamblers with experts. 0:49. Gentile recommended a lawyer he knew that might lay out options. And after tonight, when you go online and search his name, youre gonna hear far more than Im able to tell you tonight. Im with the FBI and I did a little background check and I know who you are, he said. Gentile, who had retired from the FBI in 2003, says he was then under no obligation to report the calls to the Bureau. Brought the war home to them up there. Weve had coffee. The series is hosted by American actor John . Mobster John Alite - who admits to killing six as an 'enforcer' for Gambino crime family - joins the war against fentanyl after daughter, 30, dies from taking Percocet laced with the deadly opioid [10][11][12], In the mid-1990s, Alite relocated to the Philadelphia area, where he owned homes in the suburbs of Cherry Hill and Voorhees Township. John Alite & Felix Levine are BACK together after a few years away from doing their highly popular show together. Beatings you doled out, John? John Alite, It took 10 months before the authorities caught up, but then, he served two years behind bars in Brazil before being extradited in 2006 to be put on trial. FB/IG: @JohnAliteFacts. While Alite is hardly the first retired mobster to do good deeds, what makes his storyparticularly compelling for inner-city youth is that he wasnt just a killer, he was a big earner for the mob. And, in 2015, he spent went back in for three months for breaking his probation rules. [But] I should be happy about John Alite, not angry. Gentile says that had he done so, his bosses would have pressured him to get Alite to inform, and hed have refused their orders. Moreover, he accuses the feds of falsifying some things he told then. 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. There are so many bad people in the world, why did it have to happen toyou, Dave? Alite spoke of a hard childhood in gang-heavy Woodhaven, Queens (he and pals called it Deathhaven) that included being molested by a priest. In retrospect, Im sorry to have scared him half to death, and I could have hurt him badly. The actual number is closer to 7000. The past is the past, you know what I mean? [FBI videos also show Alite in front of Gotti Sr.'s Manhattan social club with many Gambino mobsters.] 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. He says that they attacked them because of him. I owe my life to him. In 1991, a year after the interview, one of Daves young daughters died suddenly (a second daughter would also die tragically in 1999). I believed in something that dont exist. Ricky Stratton I shot in the head on the Jackie Robinson Parkway. Alite was arrested in Brazil after spending years on the run. You only know part of the story, Gianni Russo as the backup shooter. 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. Gotti on Alite:A deranged lunatica complete frauda demented sick bastardhes lied so many hundreds of times Hes made himself significant. NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: John Alite, a mobster who admittedly has killed six people as an "enforcer" for the Gambino crime family, has joined the war against fentanyl after losing his daughter to the deadly opioid.. Alite's daughter Chelsea, 30, tragically died on August 18 after unwittingly ingesting a Percocet that had been laced with fentanyl. At right: Family soldier Frank Radice. The potential for us meeting was remote, says Gentile. Live on UFC FightPass! But the health Icouldcontroleat right, exercise, see a doctor.. Alites former defense lawyer,Caroline Tesche Arkin (now a civil court judge), recalls philosophical conversations with him about how he could change his life. ), Gotti refers me to a websitethat focuses entirely on attacking Alites cred, which is run by a crime novelist who is co-producing a book/film venture with him titled WITSEC Mafia.The venture, which Gotti says three networks are now bidding on, promises to expose FBI wrongdoing in the witness protection program. Yes. 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]. Picture aMiracle on 34thStreet Christmas drama, only this one tagged Escape from 79thand Jamaica Avenue, Alites former crime hub. 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. Certain self-important colleagues could never understand the relationship I forged with Alite and the reasons for it, he says. Three at Flight 116. . [FBI videos also show Alite in front of Gotti Sr.'s Manhattan social club with many Gambino mobsters.] But hes more of a man than probably 90% of the people Ive interfaced with. ThatI couldnt control. Two skillsets, a hybrid gangster an exception to the rule,says Ted Otto, a current FBI agent who debriefed Alite for years starting in 2007 (and to an extent still does). Its was just something I felt compelled to do. Alite admitted. 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. 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. 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