He needed a supportive authority figure in his life, because he couldnt trust himself. Alite was born on September 30, 1962, in the Queens borough of New York City and grew up in Woodhaven, Queens. Alite spoke of a hard childhood in gang-heavy Woodhaven, Queens (he and pals called it Deathhaven) that included being molested by a priest. Their war, which is now sucking in Gentile, as well as Gravano, will be summarized later. The show sells online goodies such as John Alite coffee mugs, face masks and tote bags. I mean, it's insane. Id go after a subject with a vengeance, and if that means I have to take down your family, your dog, or anybody else in my way, sobeit. Looking back, I think, my goodness, I never would have wanted to be treated like that. He landed a baseball scholarship to the University of Tampa, but an injury ended that career dream. 100%.. Nonetheless, he tells Forbes, if he was an Italian, he would have definitely gotmade, maybe even in a high position.Put another way:To us he was an Albanian mafioso, with total respect., (The Bull is lying, erupts Junior, who calls Alite a nobody who was chased from the Gambino family after merely two years of family service. Carol also testified in Junior's trial in 2009, during which time she claimed that her ex-husband was behind $30,000 on child support payments. My biggest frustration is I got hit with a RICO [racketeering] case without being caught with one piece of evidencenot a videotape, audiotape, drug, dead body, gun or even a bullet. He says Gentile was Johns contact point since the 90s.Responds Dave:That is absolutely and categorically false. 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". Alite says he once beat up Genie Gotti, Juniors uncle, in prison. In 2015, veteran mob reporter George Anastasia wrote a book called Gottis Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti and the Demise of the American Mafia. When Gotti caught wind of the project, he rushed to self-publish his own memoir, Shadow of My Father, in which he mercilessly attacked 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. And I told my therapist that. [1] Later in life, Alite publicly denounced the life of organized crime and became a motivational speaker, podcaster and books author. John Alite was also the shooter used on both the Tupac and Biggie hits, which allowed him to become the most powerful Gambino boss since Carlo Gambino. By then, he was starting to soften up. Manny I shot in Ridewood for, I think were good. It was the same old song. The one in Brazil in jail. We talk. 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. Jimmy Calandra was also former friends with Alite. Junior says his father didnt know Alite. Gentile says he never debriefed Alite, nor did he even suggest (until after John became a fugitive) that his pal become an informant. Since his very first incarceration was at the age of 17, he aims to guide the younger generation in a way that would enable them to avoid crimes altogether. 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. In Dave's case, his actions were a win for the FBI, for Alite, and ultimately, Dave.. Besides ratting out his boyhood pal Gotti, mob turncoat John Alite fingered retired cop Phil Baroni, 56 for being in a getaway car and helping dispose of the body of coke pusher George Grosso, a . But thats untrue,maintains Phil Scala, a retired longtime head of the FBIs Gambino squad. Alite says that while still in prison in Brazil he assisted fellow mobsters to fight cases. In 2008, Alite pled guilty to involvement in the 1996 murder of Gebert. I think he is an embarrassment to humanity and to society. [2] He was Gotti's best man at his wedding in 1990. 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. Its was just something I felt compelled to do. "Junior" Gotti in 2008. Georgie Grosso I pulled the trigger, shot him three times in the back of the head in a car. But hes agoodman., What followed was an hour of bloodcurdling revelations, regrets and warnings. [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. I never said I could. Gentile, who had retired from the FBI in 2003, says he was then under no obligation to report the calls to the Bureau. You always were a dog. The judge admonished them. 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. During his career, Wong handled many organized crime cases, including in undercover roles. I happened to be standing there, says Gentile. The Alite-Gentile chance meeting? For reasons unclear, the feds and Gotti didnt move forward with the cooperation. The series is hosted by American actor John . Brooklyn, circa 1991. 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. (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.) But I have to allocute to them when I'm in those [FBI] rooms. Live on UFC FightPass! Alite is in bottom row, fifth from the right. The event took place in September in Camden, New. 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. One at Mike's Pub in front. (Im sorry for ranting like this, he said at the end of a 3 -hour phone call. Yeah, I shot a lotta guys. When you keep something bottled for a long enough period of time, like a volcano it spews.). In photo's far right: Peter "One Eyed Pete" Gotti, who became boss after Junior. He dies a month later. Today, Alite is developing a venture inlegalonline gambling in South America, with Gentile serving as an advisor conducting the due diligence to make sure Alites partners are cleanand wont take advantage ofhimthe way he used to take advantage of others. John Alite Facts . Their feud is so explosive and ongoing, each triggering the other, that one law enforcement official speculates thatif todays mafia was still strongthe bosses of the Five Families would have taken corrective action long ago to end it. Alites been diagnosed with PTSD, he says, and has nightmares where hes still taking people apart. I would relish the opportunity to debate him over what he alleges about this so-called cooperation. Stabbing and baseballbatting I got a ton of guys, I mean nonstop. But Junior liked Alite, he didnt want to kill him, said Scars. One of his nicknames was The Calculator due to his financial acumen. John Alite is proven to be lying about not being in Florida "Tampa" on the night of his beat down . 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. 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. Alite has kept a low profile since he was released from prison last spring after completing a 100-month sentence for his part in Gotterup's murder. Live Playlists Community Channels About 0:00 / 0:00 John Alite Talks About His Professional BASEBALL Career/// "Mo' $$$$$ in MY Pocket! Alite says he was one of three partners with Gotti Sr. in a sports betting operation. [32] On March 25, 2020, he started his own podcast, called Mafia Truths with John Alite Archived 2021-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. He served two years in prison in Brazil and was eventually extradited to federal authorities in Tampa, for trial in 2006. You only know part of the story, Gianni Russo as the backup shooter. The next time he feels it necessary to celebrate his freedom because of John Alite, tell him I said he will never be able to truly claim the law of innocence.. John Edward Alite was born on September 30 th, 1962 in Queens, New York City to second generation Albanian immigrants with roots in Gjirokaster. 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 . Media. He lived. Moreover, he accuses the feds of falsifying some things he told then. Im the most tried man [mobster] in history, he erupts. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Event sponsor: Men Empowering Nations, a faith-based local non-profit. After promising to keep the location secret, I was invited by him to spend a day in a hotel room with a former hitman named Nicky The Crow Caramandi for aTimemagazine interview. Gotti should have been convicted, but he was very, very lucky. To be sure, his face will never adorn a box of Wheaties, but Forbeskicked the question over to a branding expert,ValerieMichaels, who has specialized in working with athletessuch as pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek and Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White. Alite, who admits to dozens of home and business invasions in three states, might be a natural.). He put me on Death Row. Likes. One member of Alite's crew, Keith Pellegrino, was a drug supplier to the 10th & Oregon gang. They don't charge me with the murder. He happened to be standing there. But if it was truly just an innocent friendship, he argues, any agent would (or should) have memorialized it on paper. If such paperwork existed, by law it would have had to be turned over to Gottis lawyers during his 2009 trial. He single-handedly hunted down that New England crew. 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. John Edward Alite, or more commonly known as Johnny Alletto, was associated with the Gambino crime family. This courtroom sketch shows Jack Teixeira during his arraignment in Boston on Friday. 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. Some of the items have Yes I Did, written on them, which he says is part of his mission to come clean on all of his crimes, and in all of their horrifying details, which he blasts Gotti and many other former mobsters fornot doing. But he dodged a life sentence by helping the. Now, a lot of people don't get killed. (Arillottahimself, in fact, since he became a cooperator a decade ago. Normally, a law enforcement agent would inform a superior, and start working the relationship to gain a foothold into a crime family. 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. Their deeply-personal blood feud has gone virtual, having bled out into social media. @johnalite. Don't go on talk circuits and make me and my father your victim.Twenty-two years Im out of that life. Endure the pain, hed say. Two at the Bulkhead, one inside one outside. Gotti. [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. These are just names I know, theres a million guys I dont know, that I batted because Gotti told me to bat. [9] Alite was also involved in the murder of Bruce John Gotterup, who was shot to death on a Rockaway boardwalk by John Burke on November 20, 1991, as retribution for stealing drug and gambling proceeds from Gambino family associates and for being involved in an altercation with the nephew of a Gambino soldier. [22], Alite's testimony was largely undermined during cross examination. The event took place in September in Camden, New Jersey, which, despite its small size (pop: 115,000),ranks among the ten most dangerous cities in America. I would act out againstanyonewho wanted to see her in a derogatory manner, he recalls. In photo's far right: Peter "One Eyed Pete" Gotti, who became boss after Junior. Run by: @Kasparoza. Gotti does concede that, because of the proffer, his father, even on his dying deathbed, he would have disowned me.Maybe even worse: You cant be half pregnant, insists Anthony Arillotta, a former boss (and hitman) of a Massachusetts wing of the Genovese mob, the largest of the five families. That was a part of my career I dont take a great deal of pride in., For his first arrest he yanked his suspect over the side of a shrimp boat and onto the dock like a hooked fish. "I wanted to do a show where people watch this and say, 'I wanna be Latino!' or 'Damn, too bad I'm not Latino . [24][25] Interviewed after the trial, the jurors said that they did not find Alite to be credible. So to them it's unbelievable, that theres no way this guy could have did this much.Oh, the kid Stevie Newell [quoted below], I also shot, who testified for Gotti. September, 2020. 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. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. 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. 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. The family is livid about a Page Six story on a wedding Sliwa and John Gotti Jr. attended over the weekend. I'm trying to think who else is dead. At the time, Alite owned a 15-acre estate that boasted three houses, a lake, pool, two baseball batting cages (of course), security sensors underneath a five-block driveway, and a regulation-size boxing ring. My God, he recalls saying to himself,we have averyinteresting individual here.. Gotti. I completely agree with Davethat he would have been tasked to work Alite if he had notified his superiors of the relationship, says Wong. He was a bad person many years ago, said Gentile, putting it mildly. Only in America when theres 500 platforms that a guy like this can flourishTo honor my father, I would never sit across the table from him. Or, more importantly, how the fuck does he sleep at night., Not well. Some jurors believed him, some did not, says John Meringolo, one of Gottis two trial lawyers. One juror told the press that the jury was unanimous in finding Alite the least credible of the witnesses. 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. Three at Flight 116. ), Why does Alite care today? The message: I tell them, after you hurt or kill somebody, look in the mirror and just shoot yourself in the head, because that's what youre doing.. The past is the past, you know what I mean? Due to his cooperation with prosecutors, he was released on a five-year supervised release in 2012. But that wasthen. Hes been been working with a therapist for 15 years to understand and control his temper. In July 2020, he appeared in the Fear City: New York vs The Mafia Netflix docuseries. But two for sure. I didnt care what I have to do to get the job done to bring an indictment. It happens every day.. The feds were hovering around Alites businesses in New York, New Jersey and Florida, while a growing number of gang members were flipping like pancakes. Ive dreamed of every which way to tear his body apart. A week later, they ran into each other again at the rink. 128. rickyv419 1 yr. ago. When me and Dave became friends he begged me to change my life.. ARRIVEDERCI! [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. 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. So I can keep going with story after story. I forgot about him. Scene: Alite's house in South Jersey, 1991. I had a John Wayne mentality. ButRileyfelt he pinned too many of his crimes on Gottis orders, and he was troubled by some conflicting accounts by Alite of how many acts of violence he was involved in. How so? In September 2021, Alite was the subject of an episode of National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad. But hes more of a man than probably 90% of the people Ive interfaced with. Really it was a shame that John [Sr.] evenmadethis kid., In his own defense, Junior says:[My father] made me a powerful guy at a very young age, and I dont think I was ready. Joseph Rejent | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. 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). Living there, it was no surprise that Johnny became friends with his son, John A. Gotti. One at the Swim Club that beat up Gottis cousin, Johnny Ruggiero. And I was right, because he absolutely has. 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. TIME FOR BUSINESS: Gentile (left) is assisting Alite by handling the vetting and due diligence for [+] a legal online gambling venture in South America. Alites former defense lawyer,Caroline Tesche Arkin (now a civil court judge), recalls philosophical conversations with him about how he could change his life. Gentile also co-formed a private investigative company that in 2013 sought a contract to provide guards at a New York airport. 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. 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. Plus or minus one, they stay true.Prosecutor Trezevant, who spent hundreds of hours debriefing Alite, says investigators in New York and Florida reverse-engineered Alites claims to confirm them. In 2008, Alite pled guilty to involvement in the 1996 murder of Gebert. Alite has claimed he had an affair with her, which shes vehemently denied. He began associating with "made" members and associates of the Philadelphia crime family, as well as the independent 10th & Oregon Crew. He says that they attacked them because of him. Mobsters and mob experts can dissect the 302 and judge for themselves; the five-page 302 is readable here. I cant give an exact number for sure,Alite shot back. They don't charge me; they don't have the bodies. Dave would have come under suspicion if his contacts with Alite would have come to light under different circumstances. The Oddest Couple podcast features two individuals from polar opposite walks of life, who have lived completely different lives, who yet understand each other extremely well. I wasdone., Back in the U.S. he was seething to find that his businesses had been taken over by former partners. Their remarkable bond developed slowly and by chance 20 years ago (when Alite was still a hitman and Gentile still a G-Man). 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. He was sometimes combative and seemed to struggle just to be inhaling the same air as Gotti. Finally, Alite may be the only former mafia hitman to launch a music career. The problem is none of these guys [fellow ex-mobsters] ever do what I do. Never wanted to or asked them for a dime.One of the biggest impacts in his formative years was a sister, severely brain-damaged at birth, being regularly taunted and picked on. Russias War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine, Eagles Jalen Hurts Lands Record-Breaking $255 Million NFL Deal, DeSantis Ramps Up Disney Feud With New Measures Against Theme Park. 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. (Socially-distanced, of course, although there might need to be a bulletproof glass divider at the table.) Its best summed up with bullet points (pun intended): At the heart of their conflict is this:Alite says Gotti wont admit and accept thathe became a rat while Alite was still holed up in a Brazilian prison fighting extradition and remaining loyal to the clan. He was close to signing contracts, he says, but the pandemic has delayed everything. This is why the kid [Junior] didnt belong in the life. Alite phoned Gentile collect from around the world, including from Brazil prisons on smuggled phones. ET: Sheesh. His fleeing and then having the bones of his business picked apart by his former friends, its the life, says FBI agent Otto. He was in the witness protection program with a $1 million bounty on his head ($2 million in todays money), which explained why Gentile sat near us with a loaded gun. . As Alite looks ahead, Gentile is well-placed to help him make safe business decisions. [15], In 1995, Charles Carneglia and Alite were involved in a major conspiracy to murder John A. Did Alite overreach in the trial? 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. ), He still shakes when gripped by extreme anger, but now Im able to change my thought pattern, he says. Back at his office, Gentile entered Alites name into an FBI database. Event sponsor: Men Empowering Nations, a faith-based local non-profit. What does Phil's EX-WIFE reveal about their time together? Picture aMiracle on 34thStreet Christmas drama, only this one tagged Escape from 79thand Jamaica Avenue, Alites former crime hub. Moreover, she adds, American culture loves a comeback, and with people suffering from the pandemic, this whole marketing tool of the aspirational lifestylewealthy celebrities lecturing people from their mansions andsuperficial influencersisnt resonating anymore. Im with the FBI and I did a little background check and I know who you are, he said. From politics to music . Saw him in court and gave him a big smile and said, I told you Id see you again.Why behave this way? Follow: @WitsecMafia. We stabbed Joe OKane. He's given me the confidence to do things that I'm afraid of. 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. I believed in something that dont exist. I always believed I could take care of myself and those close to me, he explains. 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. Dave opened up to Alite about his family tragedies, while Alite opened up about how his prison stints were destroying his relationships with his kids. You got something to say to me? said Alite, after walking off the witness stand during a break. By being an open book about the details of his violence, perhaps no skeletons can leap forward to bite him. David Gentile, retired FBI agent, Without a doubt, Dave saved my life. So I look at each day that I get through as another day; I dont look at next year. Post-FBI, he rooted out wrongdoing as the inspector general for a port authority that was mired in corruption; the chief compliance officer for a national turnpike commission; and head of labor operations for Philadelphias mobbed-up convention center. As a teen, Alite worked in a local deli (a known mob hangout), where he was recruited to run envelopes for a sports betting operation. His second wife is Claudia DiPippa, who is the sister of a Gambino associate. This time they chatted for about an hour, exchanging names and starting to form a bond. [3][4] Alite grew up in the same neighborhood as John Gotti's son, John A. Gotti, with whom he was boyhood friends. 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. a legal online gambling venture in South America. Thats what made me exceed in my business, he once conceded in court. But Gotti will never do it. John Alite's sons were recently attacked in a HOWARD BEACH restaurant by some Gambino young guys. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. 260 Following. Alite also hopes to brand himself to companies that might see value in employing a reformed hitman as a pitchman to sell products. Ex-Gambino mobster John Alite (center) tweeted in April that he was outside Citi Field for the Mets' home opener, and he included a photo of himself clad in a bright orange hoodie. Two at Mandelas bakery. 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. For six years, until he retired from the FBI, he trained police commanders and detectives with seminars on leadership, management, and ethics. 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. I can't verify all his stories . Take-No-Prisoners G-Man: FBI agent Gentile in 1993. [17][1], In January 2008, Alite pleaded guilty to racketeering charges that included two murders, four murder conspiracies, at least eight shootings, and two attempted shootings as well as armed home invasions and armed robberies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, stemming from his alleged involvement in a Gambino crew in Tampa, Florida. He has three books that he has co-written: Gottis Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia. And, he is the sole author of Prison Rules. As for his public appearances, apart from giving televised interviews time and again, he has his own sit-down interview show by the name of The Johnny and Gene Show. Alite recalls that his own aggression started at age three, when his father taught (and forced) he and his older brother, Jimmy, to boxand wouldnt allow them to cry when they bled. 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