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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He says, John, on cue, the doors burst open, and Roy Cohen, this little diminutive man, walks in, and he's not even paying attention. It's like he's aloof. His glasses are down, he's reading something, he's just walking by, and people are trying to say hello, and he's not even acknowledging them. He's just walking right past them. He's walking right by, okay?
And he gets to the front, and he says, how are you, Your Honor? He says, Roy Cohen here for John Gotti. My father's looking. He don't know Roy Cohn. He's looking at him. Mike Cohn was my lawyer. And he's saying, well, Mike. So no, no, no, no. So Mike's whispering to Roy. And Roy tells him, sit down. And he sits down. You've got to be kidding me. Sit down.
And he says, Your Honor, we're asking for an extension here. And he says, John. The whole vibe in the courtroom changed. Everything completely changed. Like that. The judge gave the extension. Next thing you know, he negotiated the plea. Seven years, multiple witnesses. He was accused of murder. Seven years. I had to do three years on this. I do that standing on my head in the box, he said.
Three years he did, and Roy orchestrated that plea. Wow. Talk about power.
No, my father met him for the first time.
Yeah, I've never met him. I met him later on in life.
Up until that point.
No idea.
He knows he did a lot of work. A lot of work for Carl. A lot of work for Neil. But he knew of him, never met him.
It goes back to McCarthyism. He was powerful back then. Senator McCarthy, when he he saw something, he saw a quality in this young Roy Cohen. And again, I've never watched anything on Roy Cohen, but it's an observation that you make when you're reading books and things of that nature. Haven't only met him one time and bits and pieces of tidbits of stories that my father had told me.
that there was a persona there. He was sort of identified as the prince of the Velvet Mafia. And you know what the Velvet Mafia was? Velvet Mafia was the underground of New York, the gay community, that these guys had a lot of powerful, influential people were there, and Roy knew everything. Roy knew all the bodies were buried. He knew who was who and what was what, okay?
He knew what high-ranking individuals, what judges, what... Everybody played a different role. The Velvet Mafia. That's what we used to call them back in the day.
I've never even seen this before.
Today, you and I, society, we accept everything. We accept if you're a good person, you're a good person, whatever your choices are. Then they did not. Then in the 50s, 60s, 70s, they discriminated against people. It could not happen. So it was like almost a sin to be gay back then because society was harsh on that. Religion was harsh on that.
Well, Roy was that, and he was the guy who knew all the secrets and all the answers. And understanding also, this is even before that point of the Velvet Mafia in the 60s into the 70s. Remember, he was a powerful attorney in his own right. won a string of cases. McCarthy saw him and wanted this kid. He wanted this young guy, this brash young gentleman. He wanted him next to him.
Guide him on the law. And then they began to go through the blacklisting of Hollywood and the communism trials and all that other stuff. And that was the McCarthyism, the era of McCarthyism. That was the beginning of it. His power with the Senate. It only grew, and then it evolved into what you see, the Velvet Mafia. Wow.
Roy?
I've never heard that, no.
Yeah, because you think about having... And by the way... I would think the government, if anybody, when you say somebody would want to kill him, I would probably say, if you see what's going on today now, like with the Speed Diddy trial and Jeffrey Epstein, when he hung himself, okay?
Yeah, well, I was in that unit. It's pretty tough that all the cameras failed. But anyway, that being said, when you see today, when people have that kind of information... When they possess that wealth of information on other powerful individuals, sometimes you outlive your useful purpose and you become expendable.
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