John Gotti Jr
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615 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
John Gotti Jr’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, when did you ever see that in one case? Three different elements all got fired for misconduct in my first case. So I beat the first case. This is spilling into the second case. So my father believed that I had them. He said, John, you got them. This is it. You caught them in misconduct. You did everything you're supposed to do. I'm proud of you. Now finish it.
Take them to trial and break their holes and send them packing. And I didn't see it that way. I said, I'm going to be... And I knew I could beat the case. I knew I could beat that case. And I said to myself, I says, but to what end? If I win, I can't move on with my life. I have to remain who I am. And I become... In their words, their eyes, the Teflon Don. I become it.
I just beat them two, and I beat them in 87. So I'm on a roll. I beat them in 87. I beat them in 89. I just beat them a case now in 98. Now if I beat this fourth case in a row, I said, I'm the Teflon Don. I can't get out anymore. I'm trapped. And I didn't agree with my father. And I left that prison misrepresenting to him. I said, I'm going to fight. You're right, Dad. You're right. You're right.
That's right. That's right. And then when I went home and I saw my daughter, and I got a little emotional talking to my daughter. And she says, you know, she was at that time, she was about eight or nine years old. And I looked at her and I says, these kids are lost. I spoke to my oldest boy and I says, if I fall and get life, They're done.
They're done.
If I give them seven more years, my wife could hold it down for seven more years. She'll hold it down for me. My brother, my immediate family will hold it down for me. I'll get home, and I'll get things on track here. Not just for my family, because remember, my father put his whole family on my shoulders.
My mother, in essence, who's my mother, I adore her, but she's, in essence, she became my wife. I've got to hear her complaints. I've got to make sure everything's okay for my mother. My sisters became my daughters. Okay? My brother became my son. My father's grandkids became mine. I mean, just everything fell on. I had to deal with all these different problems.
So I thought we had it under control. I thought it was going to be a great thing. And I said, you know what? He's got this wrong. I'm going to take this plea. I had to fought for $2.5 million. You know what $2.5 million is? You want to put that number up, $2.5 million in 1999. What is that in today's US dollars today? $7 million. Okay?
I forfeited $2.5 million plus property, 50 acres upstate, 90 acres in Pennsylvania, a building. They destroyed my business. $5 million today. Okay, $5 million. It's like you're writing a check for $5 million today. I forfeited all of that. They destroyed my phone business. I had Penn Station on lockdown. They took my whole business, destroyed all my companies.
My brokerage company took everything apart. They dismantled it. I gave it all up, and I said, you know what? Fortunes are won and lost every day. I'll come home. I'll rebuild. I still got enough. I could be okay. I'll give him another seven, seven years and I'll be home and I'll rebuild. No problem at all. But I'll rebuild completely and totally as a civilian. That's what I thought.
And I was only several weeks from being released from prison. And John Gotti's prophetic words came to fruition. Because remember, we had both U.S. attorneys saying that it's no longer in the interest of us. With this plea, the resolution of the case, we're done with him basically in essence. They promised me. And then James Comey, Donald Trump's tormentor, indicted me. He indicted me.
James Comey. James Comey indicted me. James Comey's office indicted me right before I was about to be released. They charged me with the Curtis Lee with kidnapping and attempted murder. And now I was facing 110 years. So only weeks. Think about the psychological impact of this, okay? I'm weeks from being released. I gave away my stuff. My fan, all my, you know, I'm a guy with a few dollars.
So I had some nice things in prison that I've accumulated. So I gave it all away. I gave nice things away. My sweatsuits, things that I've accumulated over time. That's my life day. Prison becomes your life. I've given it all away. I'm about to go home. And I have a list of all the names of my dear brothers in there that don't have anything.
So when I get home, I'm going to start sending them money on their commissary. I'm ready to go home. But I was guarded. I would talk to my wife. My wife would tell me, when you come home, I said, don't speak like that. Don't speak like that in front of the kids. When I'm home, I'm home. When I walk in that door, that's when I know I'm home.
But until then, these lowlife, these bastards can come at any time, any moment. And sure enough, they did. Several weeks before my release, they came in. They indicted me in that case. And that started from the end of that case to the last case. In 37 months, I got indicted five times. Wow. And the last one, I was facing the death penalty.
I was housed in the death unit in Pinellas County for six months until I won the motion. I was moved over. I spent 17 months in solitary confinement.
For nothing. To torture me. They put me in there to break me. They tried to break me. OK, listen, the things they did, the tactic they employed against me is so unethical. But then again, knowing the adversary and knowing how the adversary presents itself, it certainly is ethical for them because they're hypocrites.
They'll tell you, look at the mob guy and look at how bad the mob guy is and so on and so forth. But I got to tell you. I've never seen treachery in any street guy or any mob element that I saw in the United States government. I've never seen that kind of treachery. I've never seen it. You see a guy showing up for trial every single day.
You see a guy hocking and selling his diamond watches off his wrist, selling homes and businesses, getting hard money loans on his home. My home had no mortgage when I went to prison. My building that I owned had no mortgage on that. Those are assets left to my wife and my kids.
By the second trial, I had a $1.3 million mortgage on my home, and the building was already sold off to pay for the third and fourth trials, okay? My assets were gone. I came home busted and broke after the fifth case. Fifteen years ago, last week, I came home broke, broke. I got myself right. How did you make money, John? What did you do? I wrote a book. I wrote a 600-page book on my own.
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