![]() DiLeonardo and carry out Gambino crime family business even from behind bars. Gotti was in prison for a 1999 racketeering conviction before he was indicted, the prosecution has been trying to prove that he continued to communicate with Mr. Gotti committed some of those crimes within five years of his 2004 indictment.īecause Mr. Under the racketeering laws, the prosecution must show that Mr. ![]() Gotti, is charged with a broad pattern of racketeering, including the 1992 kidnapping of Curtis Sliwa, the radio host, extortion and loan-sharking. DiLeonardo has been telling his life story, his rambling tale is crucial for the prosecution. “Nobody has a right to use anybody’s children.” ![]() Gotti, who was in an upstate New York prison, had summoned Mr. “John who?” asked the prosecutor, Michael McGovern.īut after he woke up in the hospital, he said, his resolve to cooperate was renewed when he learned that Mr. Then he thought, he said, “I hope John appreciates what I’m going to do.” He started thinking about the samurai, he said, and “how they fall on their swords” in the name of honor. “On my way down,” he recounted, he started to think about “maybe dying like a good soldier,” like a Roman drawing a hot bath, drinking a glass of wine and slitting his wrists. He opened the door to take a last look at his sleeping son Anthony, who was 2 years old, “said goodbye to him and went to sleep.” A doctor prescribed Zoloft, used to treat depression and panic attacks, and Ambien, for insomnia.Īfter waking from a fitful sleep at 3 or 4 one morning at his home on Staten Island, he swallowed an overdose of his prescription pills. His life as an informant so sickened him, he said, that he became depressed, nauseated to the point of throwing up and unable to sleep. He confided in his son Michael, who was 16, and felt rejected when his son thought it was wrong to cooperate with the government. did not allow him to turn off, even when he visited his mother in the hospital, he said. He immediately began wearing a recording device, which the F.B.I. Gotti and against a long list of other organized crime defendants. Whatever the reason, that exile, in November 2002, after 14 years as a made member of the Gambino family, was a turning point.īeing cast out convinced him to confess to three murders and become a government witness against Mr. Gotti, who was the rival of his uncle Pete Gotti. He did not say why he was shelved, though he suggested it was because he was an ally of John A. I’m not even to be recognized if other wiseguys want to recognize me.” I’m the property of the Gambino family, but I have no say, no power. “I’m not a captain, and I’m not a soldier. “It means they broke me, they disenfranchised me,” he told a federal jury in Manhattan yesterday, as he testified for a second day in the racketeering trial of John A. She did not know what that meant, but Mr. DiLeonardo was “on the shelf,” his girlfriend told him. His income dried up because he could not run his extortion rackets from the federal prison where he was being held on mob-related charges.īut the most frightening moment for Michael DiLeonardo, a captain in the Gambino crime family, was when his girlfriend conveyed a message to him from Pete Gotti, the official leader of the family and the brother of the late boss John J. His marriage collapsed after his girlfriend gave birth to his son. ![]() To view original article click here New York Times By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Published: February 24, 2006 ![]()
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