John Gotti Jr
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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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Be a stand-up guy and go to jail by yourself and belong to nobody. Go to a penitentiary or go to a disciplinary four or some of those joints and be on your own. Get my respect. Then be a man. I fought the United States government without the entity the government calls the Gambino crime family behind me or without belonging to the government. I fought them alone.
My wife, my children, and my dear brothers that loved me. With no money at the end, no money, I hocked diamond watches to fight the government, and I fought them, and I beat them, and I'm home, and I retired a lot of their cooperators, and a lot of men are coming home now because of me. Okay, because of me. And to answer your question, does that bother me? It certainly does. You have no right.
But it doesn't bother me nearly as much, because the people that matter, know who I am, is nearly as much as Gravano taking my father's valor. Like I said, that life to me, I'm 26 years removed. I'm not impressed anymore. I'm not impressed by them. You want to impress me, stand on your own two goddamn feet. John Gotti fought the government, but he had an army behind him.
He certainly had a loyal son in his corner. He had an army behind him. And he was a folk hero throughout. I fought the United States government with limited reserves, no army behind me. I went to prison by myself. I did my time. I didn't walk around and say, hey, you know, I'm John Gotti. I got the whole Gambino family behind. I did it my own time. I did my bid. I did my bid. Okay? I did my time.
So to answer your question, that angers me to have someone like a Gravano, that you went, took the punk way out, went to a punk prison, went to a punk unit in ADX Colorado. ADX Colorado is a serious place. It took over for Marion. Serious place, but he didn't do serious time. He went into a rat unit and did time with rats. That's what he did. Fellow rats.
He wasn't with any men there because he wouldn't have made the bid. They would have ate him up.
No, he said one million for me and 500,000 for Gravano.
I was about to go to trial. I had co-defendants. We were going to trial, going to war against the government. That was part of the tactic that I employed, to meet with them to establish a foundation with me going on the stand and testifying. Me. They accused me of being the shot caller. I was the head of the indictment. I was the head of the indictment. I was the father.
According to them, I was the father. This was the family, and I was the father of that family. I didn't send a sacrificial lamb to go along there. I didn't tell someone. I was going to go on that stand myself. And believe me, it would have been a war. I would have been sparring with the best. The U.S. attorneys would have been coming out with everything. And look, it would have gotten to a point.
Charlie, can you see X that question? You're going to be asked some sensitive questions about sensitive people. And I'm going to say, I don't have a rat deal here. I don't have one of those 5K1 letters. See, all these rats have what's called the most magic get-out-of-jail-free tickets. It's called a 5K1 letter. A 5K1 letter means you're a rat.
It means you help the government out, they go in front of the judge, and they get you released from prison. Me? I fought the United States government over and over and over again. I even was willing on the last case. I offered to take 20 years. So they stopped subpoenaing my sister. They subpoenaed my sister Victoria. They subpoenaed all my witnesses, including my brother Peter.
Harassed my family. I told my lawyer, go in and tell them I'll take 20 right now. Just let this go. We're done. You know what the FBI agent in charge of the case said?
Tell John that's not going to happen. We got him. That's what he said. You know what I did? When the verdict came down and finally the final letter came down after multiple Allen charges, you never heard of more than one Allen charge in any case. It's an explosion charge to get a verdict. This judge unethically did one unannounced and two announced.
which already, those are reversible issues right there alone. 23 days of deliberations, 23 days, those people went to war and got me released on December 1. 15 years ago last week, I was released, December 1, okay? I was released from solitary confinement, released home to my family. And when they came over and told me, and the judge says, you have no other choice, give me bail.
It was the fifth case in 37 months. What I did was, I got up, First, I had some emotions. I had some tears running down my face. Let's not forget that. It was very emotional. I was going home. Is this really over? Is this finally really over? The wars are over? As Bruce Cutler called them, the Gotti Wars. Are they finally over? Okay. Got my composure. Got up. The FBI agent was sitting over there.
I looked at him. I walked past him. I stopped. I walked back. I said, how's that 20 years look now, motherfucker? And I walked out. Couldn't help myself. Should have taken the 20. You had me. You had me. I threw the towel in. That was my way of being a punk. My way of being a punk was taking the 20 years and quitting. And I was taking 20 years. Not a rat deal.
Not one of those magic 5K1 get out of jail free cards like they all got. No, no, no. I was taking 20 years. Think about it. That case, I'm 60 years old. I'd be getting out in two more years. I'd be getting out. So right now, you and I wouldn't be talking. I'd be getting released in two years from now. Think about that for a second, okay? And I was willing to do that.
That's what I was willing to do to make this all end, to make this pain stop, to make my mother's pain stop, make my wife's pain stop, make my siblings' pain stop, make my father's grandkids once and for all. Let's end this madness. This is crazy. I mean, the Gottis are the most tried family in history, and I'm the most tried Gotti. There's no Gotti tried more than me. None. Look it up.
Please, while we're here, did we get that stat yet? Because 37 months, stop to start, five federal proceedings, never been done before, ever. Donald Trump, you voted for Donald, right? Okay, how many cases did he get? Some were civil, I think one civil, two criminal, then one state case on top of that, right? Four in total? It seems like he got a ton of them. I don't know what the number is.
Guess who got more than Donald Trump? Me. Guess who has a billion dollars? Him. Guess who now has absolution? Him. Guess who had to fight his way out? Me. 34 charges. I eclipsed those 34 charges. If you take my indictments and stack them all up, 34 charges. John, you may want to run it 2028. You got to go into 150, 200 charges for crime.
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