John Gotti Jr
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There's hardcore guys that don't know any better. They don't know any better. They say, this is what we know. Okay? My political view is I'm a true blue independent. That's what I am. I was a Bill Clinton Democrat, and I can jump right over. I can like Donald Trump. I'm a true blue independent that stays in the middle, and I evaluate a situation, not the politics. I evaluate the situation.
There's hardcore guys that don't know any better. They don't know any better. They say, this is what we know. Okay? My political view is I'm a true blue independent. That's what I am. I was a Bill Clinton Democrat, and I can jump right over. I can like Donald Trump. I'm a true blue independent that stays in the middle, and I evaluate a situation, not the politics. I evaluate the situation.
I evaluate the person, and I can make a choice where I believe it's out my best interest, my children's best interest, where we should be. I can make that evaluation, okay? Not where maybe like my father being a hardcore guy says, it's cut and dry. This is who we are.
I evaluate the person, and I can make a choice where I believe it's out my best interest, my children's best interest, where we should be. I can make that evaluation, okay? Not where maybe like my father being a hardcore guy says, it's cut and dry. This is who we are.
Or his statement that he had made to me when I visited him, that last visit we ever had together was when a man chooses a path and he walks down that path, to be a man, you have to see that walk to the end. You have to stay on that path all the way to the end. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. Circumstances change. Everything changes.
Or his statement that he had made to me when I visited him, that last visit we ever had together was when a man chooses a path and he walks down that path, to be a man, you have to see that walk to the end. You have to stay on that path all the way to the end. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. Circumstances change. Everything changes.
So me being a true blue independent, my perspectives go, I could evaluate. And I'm telling you from the outside looking in, okay, now I'm on the outside now looking in, what kind of a man my father was. I know his flaws and I know his qualities. His qualities outweigh the flaws and his qualities regardless of being a hoodlum, they're through the roof.
So me being a true blue independent, my perspectives go, I could evaluate. And I'm telling you from the outside looking in, okay, now I'm on the outside now looking in, what kind of a man my father was. I know his flaws and I know his qualities. His qualities outweigh the flaws and his qualities regardless of being a hoodlum, they're through the roof.
February 5th, 1999. I was granted a visit, which wasn't supposed to be a visit. It was supposed to be a phone call because I refused to take a plea on a case. And I took the plea on the case. Well, I wanted to see my father. and I wanted to be declared a civilian. I wanted to be put on a shelf for the rest of my life. And I sent him a message up earlier, and he evaluated that message.
February 5th, 1999. I was granted a visit, which wasn't supposed to be a visit. It was supposed to be a phone call because I refused to take a plea on a case. And I took the plea on the case. Well, I wanted to see my father. and I wanted to be declared a civilian. I wanted to be put on a shelf for the rest of my life. And I sent him a message up earlier, and he evaluated that message.
And when I walked into that visit, he came right at me. I gave him a hug first. Well, it's really interesting to tell you because you'll enjoy this story because, again, it goes into the persona of John Gotti, okay? Not me. I wouldn't have done it this way, but he did. I'm there, and a marshal escorts me, okay, to visit my father now.
And when I walked into that visit, he came right at me. I gave him a hug first. Well, it's really interesting to tell you because you'll enjoy this story because, again, it goes into the persona of John Gotti, okay? Not me. I wouldn't have done it this way, but he did. I'm there, and a marshal escorts me, okay, to visit my father now.
And at first, the prosecution, Southern District and White Plains, they refused to have me and my father in the same room. Prosecutor gets up and says that we communicate in a code that the CIA would have a hard time cracking. They can't be in the same room. She's telling Barrington Parker, Judge Barrington Parker this, and he says nonsense.
And at first, the prosecution, Southern District and White Plains, they refused to have me and my father in the same room. Prosecutor gets up and says that we communicate in a code that the CIA would have a hard time cracking. They can't be in the same room. She's telling Barrington Parker, Judge Barrington Parker this, and he says nonsense.
Under the same provisions that he's seen him in Marion, Illinois, he could see his father. Now, the problem was USP Springfield wasn't qualified to create those provisions, to create that booth, the glass, everything else. So they had to put us in a conference room, and we had to sit across the table, a wide table, and there was a tripod set up, videotape, the whole thing. Okay, the whole thing.
Under the same provisions that he's seen him in Marion, Illinois, he could see his father. Now, the problem was USP Springfield wasn't qualified to create those provisions, to create that booth, the glass, everything else. So they had to put us in a conference room, and we had to sit across the table, a wide table, and there was a tripod set up, videotape, the whole thing. Okay, the whole thing.
And I get there, and the marshal walks me in and excuses himself. And lieutenant and captain of the prison come in and greet me, and I shake their hand. How are you? Your father's being brought down right now, and he's dying of cancer. This is February 5th, 99, as I'd said. He had the surgeries. His jaw's missing. Half his tongue is missing. Half his pec is gone.
And I get there, and the marshal walks me in and excuses himself. And lieutenant and captain of the prison come in and greet me, and I shake their hand. How are you? Your father's being brought down right now, and he's dying of cancer. This is February 5th, 99, as I'd said. He had the surgeries. His jaw's missing. Half his tongue is missing. Half his pec is gone.
He's down to maybe 160 pounds, 165 pounds. He comes down. He's belly chained and all shackled. And I hear the chains moving in the hall. He's coming down. He's doing the stutter step dance because he only can walk with the ankle chains on. And there's about eight or nine guards around him. They're bringing him. They're transporting him.
He's down to maybe 160 pounds, 165 pounds. He comes down. He's belly chained and all shackled. And I hear the chains moving in the hall. He's coming down. He's doing the stutter step dance because he only can walk with the ankle chains on. And there's about eight or nine guards around him. They're bringing him. They're transporting him.