John Gotti and the Informant part 2

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas Wiretappers! In part 2, I interview Steve St. John, a former prison inmate who served time with retired New York Police Detective William Priest who was an informant for John Gotti. I recently reacquainted myself with Steve St. John after a mutual acquaintance told me he had gone straight and was asking questions about some of the officers and agents who worked on his case. I was the sergeant in charge of a surveillance team who helped the FBI build a case against Steve for trading Dilaudid for stolen property. After I met him, I was convinced he had made a significant life change and we have become friends. Steve was a great help in the making of my last movie Brothers against Brothers: The Civella Spero War. I wanted a stripper to offer a lap dance to an actor playing an undercover cop and he found me a lady to fill that role. I needed a vintage car and he had a friend who has more than 30 vintage cars.
Steve has some great stories about working in a prison bakery with the ex-police detective. He also was friends with the Gotti capo named Joe Butch Corrao who brought Gotti the inside police source. We learn that Joe Butch was not a man to fool with, even as he became advanced in age and many other prison stories.
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1:04.6	You are listening to Gangland Wire,
1:07.1	hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.
1:18.3	Welcome all you wiretappers out there, the second episode of my two-part series on William
1:24.8	Pist and the New York City detective who was ratting out his fellow officers
1:30.7	to John Gotti and Sammy the Bull Gravano.
1:35.6	I got with me my friend Steve St. John and Steve spent some time in the federal penitentiary
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