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Danny Jones Podcast

#23 - John Gotti's Hitman | John Alite

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4777 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

John Alite is an Albanian-American former associate of the Gambino Crime Family.  John is now a motivational speaker and has published books such as "Darkest Hour" & "Gotti's Rules", which explore the treacherous, double-dealing and corrupt world of the American Mafia in the 21st century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

all right cool so super last minute podcast today um thank you for doing this john so for people out there

0:14.3

who may not who are listening who may not know um tell me explain to me who you are and what your

0:20.6

background is well Well, I'm

0:22.4

Albanian first off and I'm involved with the Gambino family since I'm a kid, literally since I'm a

0:29.4

young kid. And I moved down here to Tampa back and forth from New York to Tampa, Florida

0:34.3

to set up some businesses, which I did. I set up a parking company. I set up

0:38.7

nightclubs, glass companies, and I based down here bookmaking, and we ran things back and forth

0:45.3

from Florida down to back to the East Coast. Okay. Now, what specifically, what specifically

0:52.7

did you do like in your height of being involved in all of this and being involved with the Gambino family?

0:59.6

And what are you specifically known for?

1:03.0

Well, I was known as an enforcer of the Gambino family.

1:06.1

Specifically, I worked later on in years for the Gotti family directly.

1:13.2

And was their enforcer, their killer,

1:18.6

the guy that you didn't want to see if they had a problem with us.

1:19.1

Okay.

1:24.6

So obviously, if you're admitting you were a killer and you're sitting here right now, not behind bars,

1:25.8

how did that happen?

1:31.4

I was in jail many years. Tampa,

1:35.9

actually my case was based out of Tampa, Florida, although I was a New Yorker and born and raised in New York. We expanded business down here to Florida, and the middle district of

1:41.3

Florida ended up sending an indictment RICO case against me. And I went on a lot

1:45.8

on the run, which they say on the lamb, to probably about 20 countries. And eventually I was

1:52.1

caught in Brazil by Interpol and imprisoned in Brazil for two and a half years fighting

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