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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The kids today are a lot smarter than we were because they're stimulated by computers and everything else and far more in interaction in that respect. But they don't have the personal skills that we have in personal interaction. But they're literate. They read so much. They can hit a button, true or not true, and they can find almost anything they want to find.
But you start to put the pieces of the puzzle together and you come to an understanding that everything's a little different here.
You're either in the newspapers or it's like word of mouth.
78 to 82 I was there.
I was in the day room. I was in the day room, and we had a TV. The TV was in the day room. So when we had some downtime, we were on drilling, whatever have you, or playing sports, you go to the day room, watch TV. And I'm watching, and it was like an undercover operation. They're talking about the garment center.
And I had a picture of my father with a gray sport jacket on, and he had a bandage on his hand. Because he was here in Florida and he knocked the biker out at a red light. So he had, I remember that when it happened, he had a chipped tooth in his hand, got infected. So you'll see that surveillance, you'll see him with a gray sport jacket on or a gray silk shirt.
And it said, this man, John Gotti, is a captain in the Gambino crime family. And the garment center is controlled by Tommy Gambino and all these players. And I'm looking and I'm looking. And I see I'm sitting in the back watching the TV. And all of a sudden, I'm like sweating a little bit. Like, I'm getting nervous. Like, you know, my sphincter's tightened up now. I'm sitting there.
I'm like, oh, shit. I'm getting very uncomfortable. And all of a sudden, the front row, and they're like talking to each other. And they all turn, and they're looking at me now. He's got the same name as you. I says, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure does. Yeah. The other guy says, another one of the cadets says, oh, I saw him here. God, he was here with you two weeks ago.
Yeah, yeah, that's my father. And almost everybody got quiet. You know, everybody got quiet and they're watching the TV. And I'm like, oh, God, please. I'm counting the seconds till this ends. This program's got to end now. I'm counting the seconds here. And that was really like now I became educated, okay, so to speak. Now you're educated, okay. That's the point when you become educated.
I mean, the father, he was a bootlegger.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Well, look, I mean, we've, at that point in our lives, I'm sure my father experienced a lot of losses in his life, meeting friends and whatnot. But we've never experienced something so close to home. So he didn't, he was away a good portion of Frankie Boy's life. Nevertheless, he was like the apple of his eye. He really was. He was a good kid.
He's a chubby kid with curly hair, you know, cherub face. He had this little cherub face. What bothered him the most, well, naturally he lost his son, but that particular day, Frankie was always, he was a tough kid. He was always fighting in school, always getting in trouble. So finally my father had enough. He used to call my mother Butch. It was a nickname for my mother.
He said, Butch, go get this kid and bring him home right now. She went and got my brother Frankie. And I was away at military school at the time. She brings him to the house. She tells my father, my mother would take beating for us if she had to. She was fiercely loyal to our kids. She says, Johnny, I'm telling you right now, don't put your hands on him. Keep your mouth shut. Go get him.
Walks in the house, and as soon as he comes in the house, he had it with Frankie, and he gives him an ass whipping. Gives him an ass whipping.
No, I'm in military school. I'm away. Got it. I heard afterwards, and this is where my father ate him up. It completely ate him up because he never put his hands on Frankie, but he had enough. That's it. He says, this kid needs... My father was raised in a house where his father used to beat him just to let him know he was there. But yet, he showed a lot of restraint and hit his own kids.
If my father gave me five beatings in my life, I probably deserved 15. He showed a lot of restraint in his own children. Never hit my sisters. Never would raise his hands. And Frankie Boy, he was younger than I was. He wasn't the fifth. My brother Peter's the fifth. But Frankie Boy was sort of treated almost like the baby there. And he gave him this beating. And that was it. He told me, it's it.
Up to your room. You're punished. That's it. He told my mother, he's not to leave this house. You understand me? He don't leave this goddamn house. That's it. And my father leaves. Well, Frankie sneaks out of the house and meets up with some friends, goes on a minibike, and gets hit by a car and gets killed. I didn't know that story, Jack. Yeah, that's what happened.
So he came off the Bell Parkway, and the sun was low, and a car nailed him, hit him, dragged him about several hundred feet. He was stuck under the car, actually. And, yeah, it was my mother got the call, and she raced barefoot three blocks down to what has happened, and she saw him in the street.
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