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Victoria Gotti Spills Mob Secrets in Tell-All Book

Author describes ritual that 'made' Junior

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 25, 2009 11:28 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Victoria Gotti insists she doesn’t condone crime. But in her new tell-all book, The Family of Mine, Mafia don John Gotti's daughter compares mobsters to Robin Hood and his merry men, claims they’re better than corrupt politicians, and says she sees no difference between paying into a protection racket and paying taxes to the police. She also insists her father didn’t commit all the murders ascribed to him, and paints him as a tough but adoring parent.

Once, when brother John “Junior” Gotti was attacked by a street gang, their father leapt to the rescue, beating up the assailants, making them beg for their lives, and then forcing Junior to fight each one, mano-a-mano. She describes the secretive blood ceremony that turned Junior into a made man, even breaking the code of cilence, or omerta, to name the participants. But Junior wanted out just 3 years later, she says, after a hit on his best friend.

This 1991 surveillance file photo provided by the US Attorney's Officeshows John Junior Gotti, left, and Charles Carneglia walking together in an unidentified location.
This 1991 surveillance file photo provided by the US Attorney's Officeshows John "Junior" Gotti, left, and Charles Carneglia walking together in an unidentified location.   (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of New York, File)
In this March 8, 2006 file photo, John Gotti Jr. enters Manhattan federal court in New York.
In this March 8, 2006 file photo, John Gotti Jr. enters Manhattan federal court in New York.   (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)
In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 file photo, Victoria Gotti exits Manhattan federal court after the third trial of her brother John Gotti Jr. ended in a mistrial, in New York.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 file photo, Victoria Gotti exits Manhattan federal court after the third trial of her brother John Gotti Jr. ended in a mistrial, in New York.   (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)
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thephat
Dec 2, 2009 3:14 AM CST
They don't have to, they have the option of putting you in a cage. They still may kick the shit out of you though.
wwwonderer
Sep 28, 2009 3:17 AM CDT
Well said Bambi and Observer. The flip side is when a cop is FLAGRANTLY detrimental to society and his duty, there is SOME recourse.
wwwonderer
Sep 28, 2009 3:14 AM CDT
IN this world of I-have-no-value-but-I-know-something-about-someone-that-does, it's about getting paid, as always. Except now the mundane are being treated like aristocrats. I'm looking@YOU, Jon and Kate. *sigh*

 
organized crime • mob • Mafia • book • La Cosa Nostra • John Gotti • book deal • Victoria Gotti

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