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'Junior' Gotti ordered hit on dealer, says mobster
Photo credit: Handout | Arrest and booking photo for John Gotti, provided by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. (Aug. 26, 2008)
Victoria Gotti and the Gotti family
John Gotti's Funeral
Mob turncoat John Alite testified Wednesday that he shot a Queens cocaine dealer in the head in 1988 on orders from John "Junior" Gotti because the man was bragging about his Gotti family connections, and he was told to make no effort to hide the body because the Gottis wanted to "send a message."
Alite, appearing at Gotti's murder-racketeering trial in federal court in Manhattan, said Gotti...
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