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Mob Watch: John Gotti Jr.'s Best Friend John Alite Rats Him Out for Two Decades of Crime

Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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Junior Gotti, second from left, and John Alite, second from right, in the days before they were glaring at each other in a Manhattan court room
​They used to be the best of friends. Junior Gotti was the best man at John Alite's wedding. Alite was in the wedding party when Junior's reality TV star sister Victoria got married. Together, they murdered and robbed their way across New York as members of the Gambino Family, which was run by Junior's father John. But these days, Alite can be found in a Manhattan court room, ratting out Junior for multiple slayings committed over two decades... 

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Victoria Gotti and sons on their B-grade reality show: Carlo Gambino is choking in his grave over what's become of his crime family
​Alite's been testifying all week in Gotti's fourth trial on murder charges. And he's been painting the Dapper Don's son as nothing short of a sociopath.

First, he testified to the 1983 stabbing of Daniel Silva at the Silver Fox nightclub. Gotti, 19 at the time, apparently got into a beef with Silva over some minor slight when fighting erupted. During the brawl, Gotta stabbed Silva, then fled.

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John Alite, the kind of Mafioso who got his nails done
​But according to Alite, Junior didn't want to leave any witnesses around who could finger him for the murder. John Cennamo was one of those witnesses. A year after the stabbing, Cennamo was found hanging from a tree behind a laundry. At the time, police ruled it a suicide. Cennamo's family and friends told detectives that he'd been depressed over the loss of his girlfriend and his job.

But Gotti, who later proved as ruinous as his father in leading the Gambino Family, New York's largest Mafia clan, couldn't shut up about it. Alite says he was in the hospital a year later after getting his ass kicked in a brawl of his own. Gotti came to visit and mockingly confessed to the Cennamo slaying, saying the victim "got help to be killed."

As Alite tells it, Gotti walked around the hospital room pretending to be the Grinch, then showed how the noose was tied around Cennamo's neck and he was ordered to jump. Alite claims everyone in the room laughed.

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Junior Gotti claims he's quit the Gambinos
​And if that's not enough, Alite also says Gotti was involved in a drive-by shooting of some Jamaican pot dealers and extorted money from Queens dealers in exchange for protection. Junior was the driver when John Gotti ordered the killing of Gambino associate Willy Boy Johnson, who was informing on the Dapper Don. Alite further testified that Junior and his brother-in-law, Carmine Agnello, killed another man and disposed of the body in a car crusher in a Agnello's Queens scrapyard.

Finally, Alite's also soiled the name of Gotti's sister, Victoria, a writer and star of Growing Up Gotti, a B-grade reality show featuring her and her three sons. Alite says that when Victoria was still married to Agnello -- who's now in prison -- her husband beat her one night so she came to Alite for comfort. He's implied that the two had an affair, though he's been elusive with details.

Who knows if any of this is true. Alite's a confessed murderer himself, and judging by the cold stares in the court room, he and Gotti are no longer considering vacationing together. So you could take it as the truth, or you could take it as a parting gift from one sociopath to another.

Tags: Mafia, New York

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