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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But that was the lawyer, that was the structure that when Neil had got the case, Barry Slotnick came on board, my father was assigned Brucie, but they developed an amazing rapport, and I saw Bruce evolve almost into an alter ego of John Gotti's.
And he had the balls to stand up and actually perform, to go against the government, to say exactly what he felt, to take the indictment that was trash, that was so ill-prepared, to throw it into the garbage pan and say, this is ransom. And the jurors watched his theatrics. They were won over. They saw how John Gotti composed himself. They saw how he comported himself.
And I think a lot of them began to fall slightly in love with him or, you know, evolved to liking his character and how, you know, the humor. One of the co-defendants was a gentleman named Lenny DeMaria. Very funny, very witty guy. Like he would say little jokes in between, little quips in between.
And I think it was the combination, the chemistry of those individuals that were on trial that won that jury over. The chemistry of those, along with Bruce Cutler, And these personality of lawyers, the Santangelo brothers, Richie Raybuck, and so on, the personality of attorneys on that case, I believe that's what won the day.
Well, the trial was 87. The trial started in 86. The culmination, it ended in March of 87. When he beat it.
Bruce became a very sought after attorney at that point because he was nobody. He was an unknown attorney at that point. He was basically a second seat to Barry Slotnick, who was a very well-known attorney. But Bruce, he was like a newly anointed, one of those assistants that would come in that you'd throw him on a case with you. And a lot of times what the lawyers did, they were cute.
So what they would do is they would say they see they couldn't wait for a bunch of guys for a big indictment. You know, one of these groups get indicted, 12 guys, 13 guys. And if they knew, for example, like Barry Slotnick knew he had Neil de la Croce, he would come with two or three of his lawyers and say, hey, Neil, let's put this one with John Gotti. Let's put this one with this one.
So he'd get more money. They'd get more work for his firm, and they would have the case on lockdown. They'd have the case on lockdown. So, yeah, that was normally what would happen there.
I think he died by then. He died of AIDS by then.
Maybe 84, early 80s. He contracted AIDS, and he died young.
He wasn't practicing anymore. And I know for a fact that 86, 85, he was no longer practicing. He was very sick. He was deathly ill.
I did briefly in Manhattan one night at Harry's Bar in Helmsley Palace.
Uh, that was 83.
He used to often tell the story and the difference between... When he would try to lecture me, if I had a comfort level and I had a case... Because my first trial, I was 22 years old. It was 87, my first trial. And when my father was on trial, he beat in March. I beat my case in June. So we were basically on trial together, my father. He was in the Fed court. I was in the state system on trial.
So... I was comfortable with an attorney named Mike Coro. And he was the go-to guy from Queens by us. And he was almost like a family to us, very close to my father, my uncles, and everybody else. So I told my dad, with my case, I said, Dad, I want to go with Mike Coro. And he says, no, no, I got the lawyer for you. You're going to go with this attorney right here. I said, but I'm comfortable.
He says, look, listen to me, kid. He says, let me explain a story to you. And he told me that when he got indicted on the McBratney case, okay? And this is a case that there were multiple eyewitnesses. McBratney, I don't know if you're familiar with the case. McBratney was the leader of an Irish crew that were kidnapping Italian bookmakers and Italian money guys and holding for ransom.
And ultimately, they kidnapped a guy named Manny Gambino, a relative of Carl Gambino's, okay? and I believe a ransom was paid, if I understood the story correctly, and they killed them anyway. So at that point, there was a search-and-destroy mission, where each group put together three different individuals to hunt down this Irish crew and wipe them out and kill them all.
And my father was very successful, and the last one was the leader. His name was McBratney, James McBratney. He was the last one to be tracked down and killed. And on that case, There was a barmaid as a witness. There were patrons in the bar that were witnesses. Tough case to beat. He was a fugitive. He went on a lam. And he was tricked into coming in, my father, by a cooperator.
He saved his life. Meanwhile, years later, the guy was a co-defendant in my dad's 85 case, but he was exposed as a cooperator. Tricked to coming in. He was pinched at that meeting. And then he had to stand trial for the McBratney killing. So at that point, a move is made. Carl Gambino and Neil de la Croce move aside Mike Coro, and Roy Cohen steps in.
Now, my father's telling the story that Mike Coro's sitting there, and he's almost pleading with the judge to try to get a delay in the case. And I'm sitting there, my father's sitting there, and Mike's sitting there, and the judge is showing him no respect at all. He's showing him absolutely no respect at all. Like, no, no, no.
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