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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OK, you know, it's that's John was a street guy. I pretty much pretty I pretty much summed him up. If he loved you, he loved you. You weren't going to hurt somebody close to him without him hurting you. It's just the way it was.
Loved loyalty. He loved loyalty. Loved his family. Loved loyalty. Loved his friend. He loved the camaraderie. I think he loved the camaraderie of what he was a little bit more than he loved his family, possibly. I'm not sure.
I believe maybe he had some reservations about that later on in life, but I know that in the heat of it all, he should have been born 2,000 years earlier and he would be Hannibal. He should have been born... That's the kind of... Look... I want to spend the next several hours just talking about John Gotti, but you can't give me that kind of time. And I can go into it and I can make you understand.
When I'm done, if you didn't like him, I'll get you to like him. If you liked him, I'll make you love him. Because when he walked into a room, he lit it up. He was handsome and charming, very charismatic individual and super intelligent. We would go out. Here's what we did, and I kept the tradition for years.
We would go the first week of every month, and my father would take all the lawyers, all the high-powered lawyers in New York to dinner. And it would be the usual cast of characters. It would be my father, it would be Jackie D'Amico, Jackie the actor, myself, Bobby Boriello. We'd be there, and then it would be 10 lawyers.
And we'd be to, you know, you'd pick the restaurant, whether it was our place, we had a restaurant called Danoy on 74th and Newark, or it was another place in particular. But he'd pick a different place. You'd tell Jackie, Jackie D'Amico was in charge. Jackie knows, was in charge of that. Pick the place, and every first of the month, first week of the month, we'd take all the lawyers to dinner.
And the last week of the month, we'd take doctors to dinner. Tommy Gambino would come to dinner, and he had Schneider Pavilion, Long Island Jewish Hospital. Because we did a lot of fundraising through Tommy. Tommy raised an enormous amount of money. Tommy was a pillar of society. Great, great guy.
Raised enormous amounts of money for Long Island Jewish Hospital, especially the Schneider Pavilion, which is the cancer wing, children. And through my father, they raised millions. And Tommy himself raised millions. So we made it customary. At the end of the month, my father would have dinner with Tommy, some of the old-timers, and Tommy would bring a lot of the doctors back then to dinner.
And I would watch my father hold court with the lawyers, and his vernacular would be beautiful, wonderful, perfect talk. Trees became threes, okay? Same with doctors, same thing. And then all of a sudden, we'd be at dinner with all the fellas, and this would be John Gotti. One hand in the pants like this.
$3,000 on these fucking rat jets. $3,000 I just lost. He'd become Brooklyn all over again. He had a 140 IQ, and he had the ability to adapt to his environment. He had a 140 IQ. He had a 140 IQ, and we didn't test him. Bureau of Prisons tested him. He had a 140 IQ. And he had the ability to adapt to his environment. So if he was sitting with lawyers, he'd hold court appropriately.
If he was sitting with doctors, he would hold court appropriately. If he was sitting with... gangsters, hoodlums, street guys, he'd hold court appropriately. He wasn't going to start now, you know, all of a sudden being prim and proper and suddenly, you know, his, you know, T and his finger. He was a hoodlum. He was a hoodlum's hoodlum.
He was described on wiretap from hardcore guys would say, you see that guy, John Gotti? That is a hoodlum's hoodlum. I think it's the highest compliment you can get if you're a hoodlum, by a hoodlum.
His dad, Fred Trump, was an iconic figure in the construction industry. I mean, especially we come from in Queens. So Jamaica Estates, I believe that's where they're from. And Donald Trump and I were alumni because he graduated class of 64. I'm class of 82, New York Military Academy. We both graduated the same school. So we have that in common. We're both Queens guys.
His dad, Fred, was an iconic figure in Queens. He built a lot of buildings there. And Trump at that point was beginning to evolve into his own right. Donald Trump was now into the 80s, starting to evolve into his own right. He was taking the mantle from his dad and he was carrying it moving forward. And I believe he described one time in an interview that his brother was an alcoholic.
Donald Trump's brother was an alcoholic. So basically everything, the responsibilities of the family would be stowed onto his shoulders, Donald Trump's shoulders. And he had a great reputation in construction back then, uh, I know that he always spoke well of my dad in any conversation, any off-camera conversations he had with individuals.
I know my father spoke highly of him for his business prowess. I'm not sure if they had a relationship or not. I'm not sure. You know, you have other liars and punks that make things up, make stories up that, yeah, we knew Donald Trump, we paid Donald Trump. Listen, for the most part, it's probably all bullshit. Everybody can make any story they want to make up, but the reality is the reality.
I've seen and dealt with a lot of cooperators. The government had employed in my tenure, in my trials, Over 100 cooperators came against me, and they forgave 110 murders to bring these guys against me. And many of them were complete frauds and fakes. Sammy Gravano was who he said he was. He was part of John's administration. He found his way through the door because of Frankie DiCicco.
because Frankie was a somebody and Sammy was not a somebody. He found his way on Frankie's coattails. When Frankie got killed, Sammy became a somebody, John being that consummate diplomat, okay, and always looking loyal to Frankie DiCicco, was a tough guy, really good guy. That was one of his protégés, so he was brought along for the ride and became more than what he should have become.
But that being said, to my father's fault, Sammy did evolve to that point, But many of the stories he had told was one more bullshit than the next. He sort of took himself and put himself in John Gotti's light and put John Gotti almost in his light. And to me, what really makes me, and again, I'm a civilian, 26 years. I have no axe to grind. People say, well, you're angry. Why am I angry? I won.
I won. The United States government is the most powerful entity in the world. Will you agree?
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