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| Goodfella lived large |
| By nypost.com |
| Published: 09/30/2009 |
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The star witness against John "Junior" Gotti told a jury yesterday how he himself lived the good life as a goodfella -- spinning a tale right out of Martin Scorsese's movie masterpiece about mobsters. "When I went to restaurants, I didn't wait. When I went to shows, I got the best seats," mob turncoat John Alite said during the first day of testimony in Manhattan federal court. "When we went to stores, we got suits custom-made. We got treated like celebrities." "Was it something you enjoyed?" asked prosecutor James Trezevant. "Loved it," Alite replied. His testimony could have been taken from the script of "GoodFellas," where Ray Liotta, playing Henry Hill, brags, "People looked at me differently and they knew I was somebody. I didn't have to wait in line at the bakery. . . . No matter how many people were waiting . . . I was taken care of first." Alite, 46, on the stand for the fourth replay of Gotti's racketeering trial, said he joined Junior's crew in 1984 and reported to him for 10 years. He said he would show up at the crew's headquarters in Queens "as if I was somebody going to work for Merrill Lynch every day." "When I got to know him [Junior], it was a big thing," he said. "People would treat us a lot differently." Alite said the crimes in which he was involved pulled in $50 million to $75 million for the Gambino family. He said he kept $10 million for himself and gave Junior $6 million or $7 million. He was supposed to give Junior $10 million, but ripped him off. Read More. |
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