John Gotti Jr
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Listen, I got charged, Pat, I got charged with a murder. I got charged in Pinellas County, Florida. A federal judge sent me back home to New York to be tried because he didn't want nothing to do with the case. He knew I didn't belong there. He said, this man beat you four times and you're going to dump him on me? Oh, hell no. He could have dismissed it. He didn't. He sent it back to New York.
I got charged with a murder in Tampa. I'd never been to Tampa in my life. I couldn't find Tampa with a goddamn map. The first time I ever arrived in Tampa, Florida was in handcuffs. They had a massive press conference. I believe the U.S. attorney's name was O'Neal. 20 agents up there.
Never been to Tampa. Excuse me. In my life, never been to Tampa in my life. That was the first time in handcuffs and shackles with a helicopter over me, 20 guards around me bringing me into the prison. And I'm saying, basically, my lawyer... Famed Henry Gonzalez. Speaking of Rico, he's one of the first lawyers to spar with Robert Blakey, who created the Rico law.
Henry Gonzalez, the late, great Henry Gonzalez, dear friend of mine. I love the guy. I miss him. He came to see me. Friend of my dad's friend, the Neil de la Croce. And he says, how are you, John? I says, Henry. What am I doing here? He says, well, you're about the Federico case. I says, I've never been to Tampa in my life. He says, well, they say otherwise. And I was there.
But before we forget, Pat, and I know where you want to close with, I want to just read something. I got two things I want to read to you very quickly. Go for it. And you give me, again, I'm going to ask you for an opinion. And I admire honesty. I truly do. I truly do.
Oh, and I think, you see, with the Gravano, I would never meet with Gravano, with the government, because that was a tactic we were employing to fight a case. I was employing the tactic to fight a case. Everybody knew I was going in, okay? I was a civilian, so I was able to fight the case different than the next guy. But I want to read something to you.
These are the letters that I had sent, me personally, endorsed by my counsel, but I personally had typed them up, had them type them up, I don't know how to type, but I had written myself personally to the following individuals asking for an open hearing on misconduct against me, as well as this rat charge against me. Now, does this sound like somebody has something to hide? Here I am.
Attorney General to the US Attorney, okay. I had written Attorney General Michael Mukasey on 3-10-08, got no response back. I had written Attorney General Eric Holder on 7-13-09, no response back. I had written to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara twice, one in January 28-15 and the other in 2014, no response. And I had written to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on 4-17-2017, okay?
And I got a letter back saying, thank you, friend, for your letter, and we're going to consider this. Well, here we are seven years later. I still haven't heard back from anybody. So, is this a guy who gives you any impression that he's got something to hide? Now, remind you, also, letters asking for hearings. Then I asked my trial judge, Shira Shinlan, for a hearing on April 2006.
I asked for this in open court about this issue and the leaks to the press and everything else and what they were trying to create this aura around me. And basically, I asked for it. We asked for the hearing in April 2006, as well as in August again in 2006. And both times it was turned down. I asked for the hearing from my trial judge, Kevin Costello, on 11-11-09.
And again, in the summer of 2009. We asked Eli Honig, the prosecutor. We asked him for the file on the latest FBI agent there. Again, nobody's ever complied. Now, I've got a tremendous amount of respect for Eli Honig. He was an amazing prosecutor. And I've got to tell you, of all the prosecutors that I've faced in my life,
I think between state and federal, I know in federal, I faced 17 prosecutors or US attorneys. And I think we have a couple of the state, I think we go into about 22 or 23. Eli Hornick was a very professional prosecutor. He was good at what he did. I don't believe he ever even wanted the case. When we won the motion in Tampa, Florida, that case was dumped on his lap.
team in Tampa, Florida, came over to New York. So now I had to fight two different agencies. I had to fight the middle district of Tampa and I had a middle district of Florida, which is Tampa. I think it's the 11th circuit. And I had to fight the Southern district of New York, which was Eli Honig was the AUSA in that case. I had to fight both of them. Eli Honig had written a book. Okay.
And again, I'm trying to be expeditious here. He had written a book and in the book that he had written, He talks about the case agent on my case. And again, this may be a case of how you guys are going to edit this, but again, I'm just trying to get all this content in because it's essential to make my case, okay?
Just goes to show you about the 302, how it works out, how it's dictated, how in my particular case, 13 months later, a report was garnished, a report 13 months later, how ridiculous it is. There's dead people in a bar fight that could not have been there. The investigative detective was in the bar fight You're the greatest crime-fighting agency in the world, so you say, right, the FBI?
They did say that at one time, and I believe there are some bad apples, but I do believe the technology that they probably are the greatest crime-fighting agency in the world. You're telling me a select few decided to overlook some of these things or not even to bother to research this? Who's Riley? Who's Joe Curio? Dead man at a bar fight? Nobody chose to look at that?
Okay, I'll go along with that. But let me show you why I end up at that point. Here's Eli Honig, and again, a respected AUSA, and I have respect for him as an AUSA, because he fought the case, I believe, as fair as he possibly could with his hands tied to a point. He talks about the agent on my case, and when he talks about him, he says he was obsessed with a certain particular murder.
He was brilliant. He's brilliant. Encourageable, relentless, FBI special agent with the Queens-based Gambino squad. He had investigated and solved plenty of mob cases over his career, often deploying unorthodox techniques. Now pay attention to this one. He once typed up pages of phony transcripts.
of a wiretap that didn't exist, put them into a binder, and showed them to a Gambino soldier to try to convince him that we had him dead on wiretapping to try to make him into a rat, to flip him. Now, is that ethical? Put false documents out to try to flip somebody? To tell them they're going to get killed if they don't? Well, this is the... He's, with humor, he's openly talking about this.
I mean, I couldn't help by reading this. I read it over and over again, and I read it again, and I read it again, and I said to myself, did he say this? Because this ain't funny. This is misconduct. It's everything I've been saying that this particular agent did. It's misconduct. You're doctoring up documents. It's misconduct. That's not by the rule book. You're the FBI. You are holier than thou.
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