Gotti's Rules by George Anastasia

Author:George Anastasia [Anastasia, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Retail, True Crime
ISBN: 9780062346872
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

There’s a great but often overlooked line in The Godfather when Michael first meets Apollonia while strolling the Sicilian countryside. His bodyguards, two hit men who have sawed-off shotguns slung over their shoulders as they walk beside him, realize the jeopardy Michael has unknowingly placed himself in by inquiring about the beautiful young girl, more Greek than Italian, whom he had encountered while out walking that day.

One of the bodyguards comes to realize that the bar owner to whom they have made the inquiry is, in fact, the father of the beautiful young woman in question. The bodyguard urges Michael to quickly finish his drink and leave the bar. Michael, of course, refuses, and ends up putting himself at the mercy of the bar owner, who soon becomes his father-in-law.

The incident is underscored in a piece of Sicilian wisdom uttered by one of the bodyguards when he first notices that Michael has been smitten. “In Sicily,” he says, “women are more dangerous than shotguns.”

While not as romantically expressed, the role of women in the world of John Alite and Junior Gotti was just as dangerous and potentially as deadly. Alite’s situation with Vicky Gotti was just one example. He also found himself in the middle of another marital rift when John Gotti Sr., a few years earlier, asked him to take care of a problem Gotti’s oldest daughter, Angel, was having with her then husband, Louis Albano. In reality, it was Gotti who had the problem, not his daughter. She just wanted a divorce.

Albano and Angel Gotti had a young son they named Frankie, after her brother who had died in the accident that cost John Favara his life. But Alite said Albano also had a girlfriend on the side, that he was an unfaithful husband.

Gotti Sr.’s initial reaction when he learned about this was to have Albano killed. He said as much to Alite. But his daughter interceded. She told her father the marriage was over. They were divorcing. And, according to Alite, she didn’t want Albano hurt.

There were, of course, other ways to inflict pain. Alite said he was first ordered to go to Albano’s father, who had cornered the illegal fireworks business in Queens and Brooklyn. Gotti Sr. had a piece of that action and was the reason that Albano had no competition. Alite was told to let Albano Sr. know that he was now out of the fireworks business. What’s more, he was told that a fifty-thousand-dollar loan, money that he owed to Gotti Sr., was now due in full.

Alite said he was also ordered to read Angel’s husband the riot act. While he wasn’t going to be hurt, Albano was told that he was on the shelf, no longer welcome in mob clubhouses, restaurants, or bars. He was also was told that he’d be wise to take his girlfriend and move to Florida. Alite said he delivered the messages, telling Albano that Gotti “never wanted to see him again.”

Albano had been guilty of something that was commonplace in this world, according to Alite.

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