The Good Rat: A True Story by Jimmy Breslin

Author:Jimmy Breslin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: Organized Crime, Non-Fiction, Murder, Social Science, Humour, True Crime, Science, Mafia - New York (State) - New York, General, Sociology, Mafia Trials, Serial Killers, Mafia, Organized crime - New York (State) - New York, Criminology, Biography, History
ISBN: 9780060856694
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Q: Can you tell the jury, sir, do you know of someone named John Otto Heidel?

A: He was an associate of the Lucchese family. He was part of a gang called the Bypass Gang. They did expensive burglaries. They did banks. They bypassed the alarms. They did warehouses, that type of stuff.

Q: Did there come a time, sir, that you went to the El Caribe and overheard or observed a conversation between Otto Heidel and another person named Tommy Karate?

A: Yes. Tommy is a made member of the Bonanno crime family.

Q: What was the sum and substance of the conversation between Otto Heidel and Tommy Karate?

A: I had went to the El Caribe that day to the beach club and to see my tenants who had the luncheon concession there, and we were talking, and Tommy Karate was standing with us, and Otto Heidel walked over, and he was playing racquetball in the facilities. And Tommy Karate says to him, You know something, Otto? I think you’re a stool pigeon. And Otto Heidel got very affronted by it. He said, Why are you talking like that, Tommy? And Tommy says, It just seems that every time we do something when you’re involved, somebody gets pinched or they know we’re coming in before we get there, and nothing ever goes right. I personally think you’re a stool pigeon.

Q: What else was Otto’s reaction besides denying it?

A: To me he looked like he was a little afraid. Tommy Karate was the type of guy that was very, very capable of killing him.

Q: Had you been involved in a watch deal or Bulova watch deal?

A: Yes.

Q: Can you tell the jury, was that related somehow to Otto Heidel?

A: What had happened just before that, Casso told me that this same gang had broken into Bulova’s warehouse in Queens and that if I wanted, he could get me the watches from that burglary to fence. And it was a fairly reasonable price, and I said okay, I would do it. And he said, Don’t worry about the money, I’ll vouch for the money, and we were delivered a truckload of Bulova watches, and Otto Heidel was one of the people who delivered it to Tommy in Staten Island. We had a house we used as a drop there, and Tommy said that there was three or four guys on the truck, and when Tommy came back and told me that, I said to Tommy, Let’s do ourselves a favor and load that stuff up and take it to a different spot. And the next day, law enforcement went to that first spot and were looking for the Bulova watches, but they weren’t there. People that were involved in the Bulova watches were arrested.

Q: After hearing that conversation between Mr. Karate and Mr. Heidel, did you inform Casso about it?

A: I told him exactly what happened, the exchanges between the two of them, and I said, You know, I know you’re close to this Otto Heidel, and he says, Yes, we’ve been friends and doing things together for years.

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