Latest / money loyalty legacy / John Alite on the Paul Castellano Hit, John Gotti & Sammy Gravano (Part 4)
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- 0:00Honestly, I'd quest wipe myself in the head and shoulder with
- 0:02most of these guys because I have St. education, I have
- 0:06school education, I know how to make money.
- 0:09I'm not a dummy because most of them are dumb.
- 0:12So if you're intelligent enough to maneuver them all, which I
- 0:16was, and as an Albanian and I ran the way I did, I'm not
- 0:20stupid. Obviously, right?
- 0:22Because I would have been killed a long time ago.
- 0:23I made tons of money, so I wasn't.
- 0:26So I didn't need them. I really didn't.
- 0:47What up guys, Thank you for tuning in.
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- 1:20What did you think about him taking out Paul Castellano?
- 1:23Were you around? And you were around.
- 1:24Of the Yeah. And then you get the, you know,
- 1:26people say, oh, you didn't know. Of course I knew about it.
- 1:28Yeah. Because it is one of the reasons
- 1:31too, because he wanted me to be around with guys and weapons.
- 1:35We're not allowed to bring guns to the club at that time.
- 1:38He said make sure I'm around and make sure I got guns around and
- 1:40make sure you guys are ready because he didn't know what was
- 1:43going to jump off with the other families.
- 1:45So and you know, prior to that happening on December 16th, 1985
- 1:50is he was going to Neil de la Croce trying to get approvals to
- 1:53kill Paul and Neil was on his deathbed.
- 1:55He wouldn't give it. Finally John said, let's kill
- 1:58him. Neil's going to die anyway
- 2:00because John had a lot of respect for Neil.
- 2:02And then finally he said, OK, let's do it.
- 2:04I never believed he had to. I believe it was just a smart
- 2:07move on John's point to become boss because Paul had two major
- 2:13cases going at the time. He wasn't killing anybody.
- 2:16He had the Commission case and he had the Roy Demayo case,
- 2:19construction things. He had the ability and he
- 2:21already killed at that time. He had Demayo, he already killed
- 2:25Roy, which was his killing machine, and he had too much
- 2:28heat on him. He was out on bails.
- 2:30He just wasn't. He wasn't in a position to kill
- 2:32anybody and he wasn't going to do it after all that pressure.
- 2:35So I think the worst he would have did to John and him was
- 2:38just shelve him and I think John understood that and he used it
- 2:42in his benefit and took him out. Really quick about that.
- 2:46We heard a couple different stories from talking to a couple
- 2:48of different people about John's alibi, John not being there for
- 2:54the Paul Castellano homicide. Then I heard that he was there
- 2:58and I heard that he was a driver and I heard he wasn't a driver.
- 3:01Do you happen to know? John wasn't John didn't didn't
- 3:05drive much. He didn't like driving.
- 3:07First off, he wasn't a great driver.
- 3:08He didn't like driving. And you know, I know Sammy's
- 3:12version, which a lot of things Sammy said for the people that
- 3:15don't know his gas pipe lost his deal when he was cooperating
- 3:19because he didn't agree with a lot of things Sammy said.
- 3:22And I happened to believe a lot of things that gas pipe said
- 3:25were more accurate because I know Sammy lied a lot.
- 3:28He lied about things that involved me.
- 3:30The Louis de Bono murder, Sammy knew nothing about it.
- 3:33He acted like he did. He didn't because the hit team
- 3:35changed. He had no no idea about that.
- 3:38That's one lie. The other one is he talked about
- 3:40Frankie Locascio, the concierge that Frankie liked.
- 3:43Frankie hated him and Frankie, you know, I was trying to help
- 3:46Frankie with his lawyer of getting out on appeal against
- 3:50what things Sammy said about him.
- 3:52So Sammy's bought us a lot of things.
- 3:54He has a reputation aligned, but at the time he was the informant
- 3:58and the source and I don't know who collaborated at whatever he
- 4:02said or didn't, and I just know he lied a lot.
- 4:05I went to Sparks. If you go there at 5:00, it's
- 4:09all Albanians that run Sparks. By the way, I did ATV show out
- 4:12there with Georgia Anastasia. If you go there and there's a
- 4:15body, if you go there now, it's Christmas time, right?
- 4:18Today's December 16th, actually the day Paul gets hit.
- 4:21Go there at 5:00 around when Paul's meeting for the dinner
- 4:25meeting and you see the trucks are there, delivery there, it's
- 4:28packed and a body in the street. How do they get Sammy say they
- 4:32drove past the body. I don't believe it.
- 4:34I think it's a complete why there's too many people in the
- 4:37street. There's police there.
- 4:38How you getting by there? Who's going to take a chance to
- 4:41get by there? And if you go on the block prior
- 4:43to that is 3rd Ave. and then if you coming down, you're no man's
- 4:48land if you're coming down to to the box.
- 4:53So I I never bought that story and he's just known to be a
- 4:57liar. His nickname wasn't the bullet
- 4:59was Sammy daughter such the truth.
- 5:01You know, really. And he was supposed to get hit
- 5:03by the Colombo family. They chased him because they
- 5:06called him a rat. And Louis Malito, his best
- 5:09friend, saved his life. And then later on he set up his
- 5:11best friend to get killed. So, you know, I, I don't really
- 5:14buy anything. I, I don't know for sure where
- 5:17John was, to be honest. I just know what John told us,
- 5:20told me to be around and have guns around and guys around.
- 5:24So that part, I know my, my position, the part Sammy.
- 5:29But Sammy sang that, and I'll clarify that Sammy saying he set
- 5:33up the whole murder. He hardly knew John.
- 5:36He only knew him a couple years. Do you think John's going to
- 5:38trust the guy he hardly knows who has a reputation of being a
- 5:41snake to set up the murder, the biggest murder in his life that
- 5:44he up, he's going to get life or he's going to get killed.
- 5:47John, no way he's going to. He's going to trust his own
- 5:50guys. That his own guys means his
- 5:52brother Jeannie, Johnny Kinnig, Tony Roach, guys that he had
- 5:57around every day, day and night with us his, you know, not some
- 6:01stranger so that dad doesn't hold mud in the 1st place.
- 6:05That that's his first lie. And Sammy wasn't an underboss at
- 6:09the time. He was just a made guy and he
- 6:11was in no man's land themselves. Sammy.
- 6:13So John know he can maneuver him and he can use them because he
- 6:16can't run back to that crew no more because he's dead without
- 6:19all them. So John maneuvered Sammy.
- 6:22So Sammy's story, like on with John and John's discussing
- 6:25everything with me, is a lie. Frankie.
- 6:28Frankie the Chico was close with John, and Sammy knew Frankie,
- 6:33yes. So maybe John had conversations
- 6:35with Frankie and Frankie might have told Sammy some things.
- 6:38And Frankie's too sharp of a guy wasn't going to tell Sammy
- 6:40everything either. So I don't buy his stories.
- 6:45How did John get away with that? I mean, isn't that unheard of to
- 6:49kill a boss of a family and just take over like that?
- 6:51I mean, I know that. The well you need the
- 6:53commission's approval and what John did was he took Joey Scopo,
- 6:56who was took one faction of the Columbo family and you came the
- 6:59active boss. So John maneuvered him who grew
- 7:03up with them. Joey respected John Williams,
- 7:06that's your baby was best friends with his brother
- 7:08Jeannie. So now you got the Gambino
- 7:10family says yes. You got a faction of Columbo
- 7:13family says yes, and he's close with Joe Messina and he brings
- 7:16them back into Commission because they were thrown out
- 7:18because of that drug deal. And he brings Joe and says I'll
- 7:21bring you back in if you say yes.
- 7:23So now there's his three families.
- 7:25Now Lukasey and Genovese family say that ain't flying with us.
- 7:29We're not recognizing Joey Scopo.
- 7:31It's called my purse ago that says no, it's gas pipe and
- 7:40Vicomuso that says no. And then you got the chin that
- 7:43says no. So you have the three families
- 7:44on that side that say no. So now you're saying you're
- 7:48you're and then Joey Scopa obviously gets hit during he's
- 7:52the last guy to get hit during the war, which I talk about.
- 7:55I like Joey a lot and they hit Joey's.
- 7:57The last hit during the Colombo was and that's because of what
- 8:01went on because of, you know, trying to take over the Colombo
- 8:03family, which John kind of backed that, you know, and then
- 8:08you got Sammy that, you know, again, you have Joey Scopo.
- 8:12When I get hit, Sammy did nothing about it.
- 8:15So when he tries to sell this thing, he only shot one guy in
- 8:17his life, Sammy, not 19. So if he's check into check into
- 8:21the paperwork, he only killed one guy in his life.
- 8:24But he never hits nobody that hits his best friend Frankie
- 8:27Chico. He never hits one.
- 8:28Nobody that hits Eddie Leno, nobody hit Bobby Borella, nobody
- 8:32that hit Joey Scopo, nobody that hit Little Anthony, nobody that
- 8:35hit Greg Ryder, Mark Son and somebody else gets killed to it.
- 8:39Get off the top of my head. Never hit nobody back.
- 8:42We lost seven guys. So where's your killing?
- 8:46Where's this killer that he talks about?
- 8:48So that's why he said that. You know, guys that don't know
- 8:50about the mob, they can buy until they don't know what he
- 8:52better and nobody's who's going to tell them where they're going
- 8:56to get their information. That's true.
- 9:00Who were the actual killers of Paul Castellano?
- 9:03Like who actually shot him? Vinny Arturo So was one of the
- 9:06guys that was was there that said suppose he is, you know,
- 9:10again, I'm, I'm getting it from information.
- 9:13The guys I know. So he said his gun jammed.
- 9:17They were contemplating killing him.
- 9:18I don't know if his gun jammed or not.
- 9:20They thought he was lying. Then they said he wasn't.
- 9:23So I'm not sure he was there. Tony Roach was there.
- 9:26Janie Gotti was there, Johnny Konig, who is the the supposed
- 9:31killer of both guys. He killed bloody and then he
- 9:34went on the other side. He killed Paul, which I believe
- 9:37because Johnny had, you know, I'm a big fan of Johnny's that
- 9:41was very loyal to him. I wasn't loyal to his brother.
- 9:45I thought his brother was a junkie, just everything weak.
- 9:48He gave us up and in different situations and internally, not
- 9:53to the law, but internally, things that were happening.
- 9:57Crackhead, you know, heroin addict, everything he wasn't, he
- 10:00didn't belong in his life. And Johnny was a completely
- 10:03different guy. And Johnny knows what his
- 10:05brother was and his Johnny's wife knew who his brother was
- 10:09and they should have just kept them away from his life and they
- 10:12didn't. But Johnny was a nice guy, a
- 10:15funny guy, a tough guy, money maker.
- 10:18He had all the qualities. He hated sitting in the club
- 10:20playing cards. That wasn't his thing.
- 10:22So like Harley Davidson's fast boats.
- 10:24And he was good and you know, closely had a Good Wife, good
- 10:27family, kids. So you know, Johnny had it all
- 10:31together. I was shocked that he took and
- 10:33he listened to senior and he did the he took all that time and
- 10:37not to play because he could have did it in nine years.
- 10:39He wasn't the type of guy to do that.
- 10:41He was the type of guy to think on his own.
- 10:44So I was very surprised that he that he did that.
- 10:47Yeah. What did you consider yourself
- 10:49when you were in that life? Like as far as were you like a
- 10:51gangster or were you, do you consider yourself a gangster or
- 10:55a street guy or what? How did you yourself?
- 10:58Honestly, I think I classified myself a lot of head and
- 11:02shoulder with most of these guys because I have St. education, I
- 11:06have school education, I know how to make money.
- 11:09I'm not a dummy because most of them are dumb.
- 11:12So if you're intelligent enough to maneuver them all, which I
- 11:16was, and as an Albanian and I ran the way I did, I'm not
- 11:20stupid, obviously, right? Because I would have been killed
- 11:23a long time ago. I made tons of money, so I
- 11:25wasn't. So I didn't need them.
- 11:28I really didn't. My biggest mistake is getting
- 11:30involved with them because I did the shooting, I did the work, I
- 11:33brought in the money, I opened up the businesses, what I need
- 11:35them for. So it was one of the dumbest
- 11:38things I ever did actually as a kid.
- 11:40But you're a kid, you don't know any better.
- 11:42That's why I'm always telling kids, get the away from that
- 11:44nonsense. Yeah.
- 11:46Can I just ask, what were your thoughts of Vincent the Chin
- 11:49Gigante when you saw? Did you ever see him walking
- 11:51around in the bathrobes or anything?
- 11:53Like, you know, I know his daughter's one daughter.
- 11:55I don't know if you know, she's out and then she's a nice woman.
- 11:58I know Sonny Black's, you know, daughter.
- 12:00I know that the Chico's, I know all of the Gambino.
- 12:03I know them all since I'm a kid, you know.
- 12:05So I look at them and I'm like, I lived a life that none of them
- 12:11did. I enjoyed my life.
- 12:13I went from country to country. I opened clubs.
- 12:16I had big money. I did think they're almost like
- 12:19in jail. Outside of jail, they don't do
- 12:21anything. So when you look at, you know,
- 12:23is the chin smart? Yeah, he's a smart guy.
- 12:25He lasted a long time in the life.
- 12:27But what kind of life did he live?
- 12:30You know, you didn't have a real family life because of you were
- 12:33on the street day night. You had cases day and night.
- 12:35You didn't travel, you didn't do anything.
- 12:38So how is this a good life? So when someone could tell me
- 12:41what's so good about this life? You're fighting to to survive,
- 12:44not to go to jail for the rest of your life, which you end up
- 12:46doing. You didn't have a, a good family
- 12:49life because no one can in this life, none of us because you
- 12:53can't do both. You're married to the street.
- 12:55And the other thing is you're not traveling.
- 12:57So why are you enjoying your life?
- 13:00You know, John had enjoyed his life because he liked it
- 13:04limelight a lot. So he enjoyed it to a certain
- 13:06extent, but he didn't travel. Yeah.
- 13:08You know, he didn't go to Paris, he didn't go to Italy.
- 13:11He didn't go to Greece. He didn't go to Argentina,
- 13:13Uruguay, Paraguay. I can tell you, every city in
- 13:15all these places besides just going there, the Cayman Islands,
- 13:18the Ivory Coast, I've been everywhere.
- 13:20Right. So when you look at these guys,
- 13:22they did, right. So what's the enjoyment?
- 13:26Yeah. You know, So what?
- 13:27You can buy a Lamborghini. Who gives a What are you going
- 13:29to do with Lamborghini if you're in prison the rest of your life?
- 13:31Yeah, that's true. And when you were going to do
- 13:33like an act of violence, can you say like, like what kind of
- 13:36music were you listening to? Like, say you go, I gotta go
- 13:38beat this guy. What are you putting in the I?
- 13:41Listen to two types. I used to listen to the ghetto
- 13:43boys. I don't know.
- 13:46I used to listen to them and then believe it.
- 13:48And I listen a lot of opera. Really.
- 13:50Yeah, I like soft music. Like you were you, I'm going to
- 13:53go beat the out of this guy. I'm going to play some.
- 13:55And I used to put on smoothing music that was.
- 13:58Shit level. Yeah.
- 13:58Yeah. Damn.
- 14:00Yeah. Can you say what's your favorite
- 14:03part of that life? Your former life was just
- 14:05obviously it's the past, but when you were, what was the
- 14:07height when you were at it? Like, what was your favorite
- 14:10part about it? It's it's it's, it's a distant
- 14:13memory, but at the time when you were living it.
- 14:15It's got to be the excitement, the way you move around.
- 14:18Just, you know, like right now we're just sitting here.
- 14:20Now it's come. Come on, let's go to California.
- 14:22You know, I would stay the Lee Matage.
- 14:24It's a it's a townhouse. Back then it cost me 2500 a
- 14:29night. Pavarotti was my next door.
- 14:30And I didn't even know who he was.
- 14:31It was a dumb kid, you know, when I was, I asked him to come
- 14:34over to my party and I was throwing, you know, I bought,
- 14:37you know, a couple of cases of champagne.
- 14:39Cristal, I'm throwing money around like crazy.
- 14:41And the bell guy tells me, you know, they all know who you are.
- 14:44I'm still stupid not to understand.
- 14:46They all know I'm a drug dealer, you know, because you're naive.
- 14:49And then I, Pavarotti, I go. You want to come over because he
- 14:51came out, I go. Am I making too much?
- 14:53Always. He only spoke a very little
- 14:54English and he's laughed and he goes no.
- 14:57And then the bell guy goes, you know who that is?
- 14:59And I go no. And he tells me.
- 15:00Then I knock back on the door. I said, sorry, I don't know
- 15:03where you are. He left.
- 15:04He was very nice guy. But you know, I went there, I
- 15:07went to California. I flew there with three girls.
- 15:09They threw a party and, you know, cost me 2500 a night.
- 15:12And I I thought it was a big deal that they gave me a
- 15:14limousine complimentary from 9:00 to 5:00 or 6.
- 15:16Whatever. You know you're a dumb kid.
- 15:19Yeah, yeah. So when you when you look back
- 15:21on that and your memories, you're just like, that was
- 15:23awesome. Yeah, I think about all this
- 15:26because, you know, I walk in, you know, I walk into places and
- 15:29it was a big deal that I'm coming in.
- 15:32I'm a kid. And, you know, you understand
- 15:36what you are. When you start seeing grown
- 15:38adults, men treating you like, you know, and you're like, wow,
- 15:44successful guys treating you, and then you feel like you're
- 15:46successful. You lie to yourself, you know,
- 15:48like, wow, I made it. It's like Tony Montana, right?
- 15:51You know, I made it, but you really didn't make it.
- 15:54You're just stupid. You think you made it, but you
- 15:56didn't make it. Respectively, you know, you
- 15:58still bomb lowlife in a different way.
- 16:01You know? That's the truth of it.
- 16:03You can dress any way you want, speak the way you open.
- 16:05It's not real success. Fair enough.
- 16:08Was there a favorite gangster movie that you watch where you
- 16:11were like it gave you like chills almost because it was so
- 16:15real or something that you just liked?
- 16:17I don't watch, believe it or not, I don't even watch my own
- 16:19podcast. However they do.
- 16:20But you know what movie I like that all the gangster movies.
- 16:24I love State of Grace with Sean Penn.
- 16:27I thought it was great at Harris.
- 16:30And you know why I like it? Because these guys were greedy
- 16:32guys like I was. I grew up in the street, you
- 16:35know, they're Irish, just regular tough guys, you know,
- 16:39wild, you know, even though they're like bums, but they're
- 16:42wild. Then I can relate because that's
- 16:43how I grew up. Right, right.
- 16:45Do you feel like they're they shouldn't be making movie about
- 16:48you one day soon? The truth is they don't, they
- 16:51don't talk about because I'm Albanian, but I, I, I ranked and
- 16:56I did what I wanted in the street for a lot of years in a,
- 17:00in an Italian mafia being Albanian.
- 17:03So when guys can say anything they want, I tell everybody
- 17:06you'll never last in Albania for 24 hours if you're not Albanian.
- 17:10So how did I last like this so? Sounds like a pretty good movie
- 17:14script to me. Yeah, right.
- 17:16Yeah. I mean, you know, it's and I and
- 17:19I didn't do what most of them did, you know, because most of
- 17:21these guys are broke. Some what people think they
- 17:23never and they never travelled. They didn't do anything.
- 17:26And they, you know, I, I just had a wild, crazy life from the
- 17:30penitentiaries and other countries that on the run and
- 17:33the Interpol chasing me every Wednesday.
- 17:35When they caught me, they caught me with the, you know, they
- 17:37caught me with the Army and Stipers and you know, they came
- 17:40with everything, helicopters and you know, so it was just the
- 17:43whole way through has been crazy.
- 17:45You talk about loving life, you know you love life.
- 17:49You love living life. Do you feel like you've done
- 17:51everything that you could possibly want to do in this
- 17:54life? No.
- 17:56What, what, what, what more is there for for John?
- 17:59Well, yeah, I want to make sure my kids are successful in a good
- 18:02way. And the other is to do something
- 18:05positive, which I've been trying to do with kids.
- 18:07And then I would say this life was I, I accomplish what I want
- 18:11because this stuff is my life. I can't erase it.
- 18:15It's things that happen. It's in me.
- 18:18I mean, you know, people ask me, I said my DNA is still my DNA.
- 18:22If somebody walked in this house, yeah, I'm the same guy,
- 18:24wouldn't hesitate killing him. But that's not who I want to be.
- 18:28And what I want to be is the guy that's saving the kid that
- 18:32thinks his life is only in the street like I thought it was.
- 18:35That's the satisfaction, really. And people could say what they
- 18:38want, but there's nothing more satisfying than saving
- 18:41somebody's life from ruining it and then watch him have kids and
- 18:44family. And there's a lot of people that
- 18:45write me and tell me thank you for helping me.
- 18:47And I'm not like those guys that don't answer.
- 18:49I answer a lot of guys. I talk to as many as I can.
- 18:52And, you know, people like, why do you waste your time so much
- 18:55on this? Not a waste of time if I could
- 18:56save somebody's life. Because I know how many times I
- 18:59sat in cells and I cried my eyes out, right?
- 19:03And I'm not ashamed to say it because somebody said, oh, you
- 19:05cried at them. Yeah, I cried.
- 19:07What am IA robot? We're all human beings.
- 19:09And I and I told the God that too.
- 19:10You can make fun of me because the God made fun of me one time.
- 19:13And I said to him, but if you open this door, I said, I
- 19:15guarantee I kill you, you fat. You know this.
- 19:19Year probably changed quickly, yeah, so.
- 19:21You know, he talked like an idiot.
- 19:22I threw piss on him actually, you know, because I got him to
- 19:25open up the crack of the door. I kept apologizing to him so he
- 19:28would open and he put his face out, throw piss on him.
- 19:30I go now, come in. You know, so you know that's not
- 19:34going to get out of you. You know, that's never going to
- 19:36change you either because you got that mentality not to give
- 19:39in, but you just got to channel it in a positive way.
- 19:42But you got pricks like them. You know, I stick up, I try to
- 19:45stick up for the police now, right?
- 19:47And I, you know, most of them are good guys, but then you got
- 19:49a couple. I'm idiots.
- 19:51I was in jail. So, you know, almost 20 years.
- 19:53And I love this country even after everything.
- 19:55But I, I'm honest, I lived a life.
- 19:58I got what I deserve. Then now I got a different life.
- 20:01So we talked about the money, we talked about the lack of loyalty
- 20:04in that life. Now, what is your legacy?
- 20:08What do you ultimately want your legacy to be?
- 20:11Obviously, talk about helping the kids.
- 20:12You want to, you know, make sure your family's straight, but
- 20:15what? You know, 100 years from now,
- 20:18what do you want your legacy be? How do you want to have impacted
- 20:22society ultimately? Then I was able to turn it
- 20:26around to be a positive influence, somebody that's going
- 20:31to Donald Trump to mall Lago, somebody that's in advocating
- 20:34for the freedom of this country, advocating for the wigs that are
- 20:39in China being abused. I said so we don't make no
- 20:42difference. This is about controlling.
- 20:44You want to have a voice because most people are weak.
- 20:46Even in jail, they're weak. They tell them to clean dogs on
- 20:49the floor. These are the same guys that
- 20:50won't get a job. They clean dogs on the floor.
- 20:52I mean, it's just amazing how you can maneuver people to do.
- 20:55I rather be that guy. Maybe I'll go in a solitary
- 20:58confinement for years, cry my eyes out, but you ain't going to
- 21:01break me to keep doing what you're saying because this is
- 21:04our country. If and people ask me why am I so
- 21:06aggressive? And I've said it over and over
- 21:09again, because if I don't fight, I leave the fight for my kids
- 21:12and my grandkids. So we need to speak as much as
- 21:14it and you don't want to do it. It's a pain in the and it's a
- 21:17lot of Flack and. Fair enough, you look.
- 21:20So ultimately, you're looking out for a better future for
- 21:23everyone. When, when, when big government
- 21:27and Ronald Reagan said it years ago invades in your life, you
- 21:31don't have freedom. When you're looking for small
- 21:33government with Donald Trump wants small regulations, you
- 21:37have your freedom. You have your freedom to live
- 21:39your life, your family's life. Yeah.
- 21:42Are you going to get in the office one day or what?
- 21:44Man I wish I could have gone with this in some level.
- 21:47I mean who? Starts coming out like.
- 21:49Who's not, who's not going to vote for you?
- 21:51You just get, yeah, I mean, truthfully, I mean, you truly
- 21:55believe in what you say. I could.
- 21:58We could tell by looking at you saying down with you.
- 22:00You know what I mean? You know you're real off camera
- 22:02too. For people watching, he's this
- 22:05guy on or off camera. This is the first time we've sat
- 22:07down and met him in person. He's a real John is real, a real
- 22:10dude, you know what I mean? He opened his homework to us
- 22:13without ever, ever meeting us, you know what I mean?
- 22:15So he he really does speak from the heart and say what he means.
- 22:19I just so you know, these guys are just good at dividing people
- 22:22and manipulating people. Try to make somebody hate
- 22:25somebody because of their color, because they're gay, because
- 22:27they're straight, because they're, you know, LGBTQ,
- 22:30whatever. That's every individual, right?
- 22:32What are you trying to make people hate each other for?
- 22:34And it's such a Machiavelli gangster move that I see it.
- 22:39I see what it is. So that's why I'm always so
- 22:41outspoken and I tell tell the kids and every kid that knows me
- 22:44from the inner city, don't buy into this.
- 22:47You think they care about you and.
- 22:48I got to reiterate for people watching, John comes from that
- 22:53world, right? You grew up on Jamaica Ave.
- 22:56around people of all different ethnicities, you know, puff area
- 23:01you you're you're from the hood, etcetera.
- 23:04You're from the hood, from the streets, right?
- 23:06So you've you've seen all levels of life, you've seen the hood,
- 23:11you know, made millions of dollars and travelled all over
- 23:13the world. You know what I mean?
- 23:15You've seen every aspect of society.
- 23:17You know everything. Like I said, you've came full
- 23:20circle. And now, when did you have the
- 23:22revelation to the that's going on nowadays?
- 23:26Here's an example. You want to pay these bills that
- 23:28if you get an F for AD, it's OK because you don't want them
- 23:31intelligent. These are all these are, you
- 23:34know, these are mob tactic moves against the inner city and then
- 23:38you want to act like you care about them.
- 23:40Then you want to throw them out and take their parks and you
- 23:42won't build them anything, but you got billions to sell in
- 23:45other countries before them. So single mothers, people that
- 23:50why don't you give them more money for education?
- 23:53Teach people confidence as a young age.
- 23:54But I've said it 100 times, let's take every race, every
- 23:58religion and put 5 and 6 year olds in a schoolyard, put a
- 24:01hundred of them in there and I guarantee you they don't hate
- 24:03each other. You're trying to teach them.
- 24:05Yeah. And then, you know, you speak
- 24:08about helping vets and stuff like that as well and you're.
- 24:11You're Yeah, they're on my sites.
- 24:12I'm big, I'm pro law enforcement.
- 24:15I talk about them all the time. And people that don't understand
- 24:18what I'm saying, I tell them every day, if you're in a rich
- 24:20neighborhood, you don't need no cops.
- 24:23You're safe over there. How about that Lady who's not a
- 24:25gangster? How about her children just want
- 24:27an education that live in our neighborhoods when there's roofs
- 24:30and people, you know, there's wolves in the sheep, I says, and
- 24:33not everybody's a streak. I have gangs that can't survive
- 24:36it. So yeah, they need law
- 24:37enforcement to protect them. I told the kid in school was a
- 24:40gang banger when I was talking. I go stand up.
- 24:43Do you like cops? He says, no, no, I don't like
- 24:44cops. I said I didn't like him either
- 24:46when I grew up. But I guarantee you, if I ask
- 24:48this girl question, you're going to change your opinion.
- 24:51And I told the girl to get up, and I asked her.
- 24:53I says, if you've seen his mother walking down the street
- 24:55and you see two guys drag her in the alley and they're going to
- 24:58you call the cops. She said yes.
- 25:00And then I asked him, do you want her to call the cops?
- 25:03And he goes, oh, that ain't even a fair question.
- 25:05Oh, yeah, it is because it happens every day.
- 25:07Everybody doesn't know who your mother is just 'cause I was out
- 25:10being a gangster didn't mean I wanted my mother and my sisters
- 25:13or anybody else to live that life.
- 25:15So, you know, we got to be concerned about our children and
- 25:17then those same guys that are killers and gangsters and Robin,
- 25:20just like I was. We're no angels, but we have
- 25:23kids too. We don't want to see nothing
- 25:24happen to our kids. So there's got to be some sort
- 25:27of law enforcement. Yeah, because a lot of people
- 25:30are going to be like, well, this guy was this huge gangster
- 25:33yarder John Gotti. Like how did he transform into
- 25:36being pro law enforcement when he spent his life, you know?
- 25:40But I got beat down badly. Twice badly many times, but
- 25:44twice badly. And I say it all the time, I got
- 25:46what I deserved. Not that I was wrong actually
- 25:49either time. I really wasn't.
- 25:50Cop was. But I'm no Angel.
- 25:52So they're going to treat me because they know who I am.
- 25:55So that's part of the game. I'm in the game.
- 25:57That's what happens when you're in the game.
- 25:58I'm not in the game. I'm not getting beat up anymore.
- 26:01So it has a lot to do with my history and my attitude.
- 26:06That's why I say comply and then complain.
- 26:08So if that day, if you think you're being abused, you don't
- 26:11comply. So you don't end up getting hurt
- 26:13or going to jail or getting somebody getting killed and the
- 26:15next day complain, go put a report in, complain.
- 26:18But my objective is to look out for these, for these kids so
- 26:22they get and understand there's no win situation.
- 26:25I tried it. You don't win.
- 26:27And how how do you prevent them from stepping into that the
- 26:31underworld in that, you know, that street light?
- 26:34How do you how do you convince them to not go that route?
- 26:37Because ultimately you got to realize a lot of people are
- 26:39still going to hear your stories or watch Goodfellas or watch,
- 26:42you know, any kind of movie boys in the hood society.
- 26:45They're going to watch these crime movies and still think
- 26:47that that it's cool. Because that kid in the hood,
- 26:50let's take anywhere Detroit and they grow up in the slums and
- 26:54they have one mother and one father, maybe no mother, no
- 26:57father at five and six years old.
- 27:00They should be teaching them confidence.
- 27:02They should be taught to teach these kids that confidence and
- 27:06to teach them to like themselves, to teach them to say
- 27:09that that not this, oh, I'm black, the white kids better
- 27:12than me. Oh, I'm at Spanish, he's better
- 27:14than me. Oh, he's Muslim.
- 27:16So that Catholics better than me, the Muslims better than the
- 27:18cut. This divide is what they're
- 27:20teaching. They're not teaching them.
- 27:22Listen, I wasn't good in school either.
- 27:24You don't have to be take you only got to be good in one thing
- 27:27in this world to get rich. So maybe you're good at your
- 27:30handy guy and you can be a Carpenter.
- 27:34Maybe you're a tech guy. You're good at computers.
- 27:37It only takes one thing to teach a kid to get very successful.
- 27:41You could drive a truck and open up truck.
- 27:43I didn't have the confidence because nobody told me that.
- 27:45But if you start teaching classes in first grade, 2nd
- 27:48grade, 3rd grade and build up as they get, all the classes should
- 27:52be implemented about confidence and make them know no matter
- 27:56what happened in that household has nothing to do with them.
- 27:58You should love yourself because I didn't give a about myself.
- 28:01I didn't give a about my life. That's why I put it on the line
- 28:04all the time. Whatever went on in my
- 28:06childhood, that's what I did. And that's what a lot of these
- 28:08kids are doing. They're not gotten a worth for
- 28:10their life. That's why they lose it so fast.
- 28:12So they'll kill somebody else so fast.
- 28:14So every time I sing when I'm mad at somebody now, if I want
- 28:17to kill you, I'm only killing myself.
- 28:20So I got to like myself enough more than I want to hurt you.
- 28:23And if you teach it and you and you mean it, and you get guys
- 28:28like me to go talk to a professors that actually care
- 28:31about the kids. So how do you instill the
- 28:33confidence in the kids that like you described, they don't have
- 28:37the confidence, they don't have the self esteem, but they don't
- 28:40have anybody to instill that in them, right?
- 28:42You can go to their stool and talk them for a day.
- 28:44Because it's not a one time talk.
- 28:47You know, I can bring it to them.
- 28:48You guys like bringing horse to water, right?
- 28:51But they need to be, It's got to be done on a constant basis.
- 28:55That's why I said it's got to be in schools from the kindergarten
- 28:57to the 1st grade to the second grade to the third grade to the
- 29:004th grade. This just should be a lesson of
- 29:03of confidence in each grade. And just like you learn History
- 29:071 and you start with the Indians and you go to something else and
- 29:10you go to the Spanish American War, they should be doing this
- 29:13at levels with confidence. And it should be a school
- 29:16mandatory. It's a mandatory all the way up
- 29:18until college until it's breaded in your head.
- 29:21Instead of brainwashing them and bad things, brainwash them and
- 29:24good things to like themselves to tell me you're capable of
- 29:26doing anything you want. You don't need anybody to hold
- 29:29your hand. You can do it.
- 29:30I was in prison with guys. One guy, Cheddar, I was very
- 29:33close to school, a tall skinny kid was a little slow black kid.
- 29:36And they got him to kill 3 kids, right?
- 29:38He was slow. He was getting checks this whole
- 29:40time. His lawyer sold him out, took
- 29:42his grandmother 75,000. I talked to the grandmother.
- 29:45I saved his life. I got him a the judge couldn't
- 29:47sentence him because he couldn't prove if he was killing mentally
- 29:50stable or not. And he wasn't.
- 29:52That's why he was getting a check the whole time.
- 29:54So there was no way to prove at the time when he shot him and he
- 29:56didn't. They maneuvered the kid and he
- 29:58was a really good kid and he was talented.
- 30:00He could sing, he could play basketball.
- 30:02And anyway, I was getting in his head every day and I just change
- 30:04your life When you go home, stop following these kids.
- 30:07And you know, he was a little slow, so they abused them, but
- 30:10nobody helped him. His grandmother loved him.
- 30:13He had a good grandmother. He was a nice kid and but
- 30:16somebody's got to reach out and put their hand out.
- 30:18You're not going to be able to reach out your hand to every
- 30:21child or every kid in the neighborhood, but just one.
- 30:24But if you have a school classes I I was on Cnni went to talk of
- 30:30dawn that they had town hall meeting with Anderson Cooper,
- 30:33whose brainiac idea was this to have free.
- 30:36So you're saying for the rest of their lives, just let them get
- 30:38high. And that's your, that's your
- 30:40answer. And you'd think somebody that's
- 30:42getting high in a club somewhere over there is going to go to a
- 30:44drug free zone. What world do they live in?
- 30:48And, and, and these kids, all these kids, their lives don't
- 30:50mean anything. You're never going to try to fix
- 30:52them. That's your answer to have to be
- 30:55able to get high cleanly. Temporary escape.
- 30:58But they got no plan to ever fix them, so they're just going to
- 31:01keep them there until they're dead.
- 31:03Or until they're brain dead, anyway.
- 31:04Did you get any blowback when you were on CNN?
- 31:08I know and Swoop, but he's a nice guy actually.
- 31:09But did did they? I didn't really speak when it
- 31:12was, you know, they have the live part and they have the part
- 31:14when we're not live. And I talk to him.
- 31:16Yeah, we all discussed and there's people, there's money
- 31:19behind it. They're making money.
- 31:21The government makes money. The people are involved on a
- 31:23private end. That work that knows somebody
- 31:25within the government, they're getting an end.
- 31:26I know, you know, we know. I know the game.
- 31:28It's a kickback game. Who's going to be the one that
- 31:31teach the kids the like the lessons that you're talking
- 31:34about? Like who?
- 31:34I can't be a regular teacher because obviously a lot of these
- 31:37teachers are teaching them. Well, they got no right teaching
- 31:40them anything. They're not psychologists, so I
- 31:42don't even know why that hasn't been brought up.
- 31:44Doesn't matter what they're teaching them, they shouldn't be
- 31:46teaching them anything but whatever they went to school
- 31:48for. They're teaching history, math,
- 31:50science, what other education? What gym class, but not
- 31:54psychology? You're not a psychologist, you
- 31:56didn't go to school for that. You should actually get locked
- 31:58up for that, and I'm talking about in anything.
- 32:01You know, you said that you you weren't the best student, right?
- 32:04But you're obviously an intelligent guy.
- 32:05Right. Yeah.
- 32:06You read a lot and you know, you've owned multiple businesses
- 32:09that were successful. You've made millions of dollars.
- 32:11Most people don't make that in their life.
- 32:13Right. But you became an intellect as
- 32:15you got older, though, correct? Yeah.
- 32:17So you don't. So the for the kid out there
- 32:19that has a hard time doing well in school, you know you're proof
- 32:27that you can, even if you're not getting the best grades, you can
- 32:30still become an intelligent person.
- 32:32John Gotti went to the same high school as me.
- 32:34Frank Kaylene. We both grew up and he grew up
- 32:38in Brownsville. I grew up a bunch of bank.
- 32:40Same thing. He's New York, Brownsville.
- 32:42I do talk to Brownsville. He never went to school either.
- 32:45He's very, very well read. He read books all the time, day
- 32:48and night. That's why he knew how to
- 32:50maneuver people. If that guy, and I've said it
- 32:52over and over, if that guy didn't go into the street, he
- 32:54could have been ACEO. He knew how to handle people.
- 32:58And it's, you know, you got to have St. smarts and you have to
- 33:00have an intellect, intelligence that you learn through growing
- 33:04up the hard way like we did. And then as you get older and
- 33:07you have children, you have a motivation to, to to be a little
- 33:11more intelligent on to your kids.
- 33:13Because only an idiot would want my kid to do what I was doing.
- 33:16Like my son's in jail. It's 10 times more suffering him
- 33:19there than me. And you know, so all these
- 33:22parents out there that have children, even the ones that
- 33:25have issues, whether it's drugs or drinking, they want better
- 33:28for their kids. They might be too weak
- 33:29themselves to teach them. And somebody's got to tell these
- 33:32kids in school. You're all right and you're all
- 33:36right at five years old, you're all right.
- 33:37People do love you. People do care.
- 33:39You do you look at yourself and like yourself.
- 33:41It ain't all about just about money because I had a ton of
- 33:45money and I wasn't happy back then either.
- 33:47I had no money. I wasn't happy.
- 33:49It was when I became eternally happy and I learned to to change
- 33:53myself that I saw become a lot. See, you're very obviously very
- 33:58well informed with what's going on in society nowadays, right?
- 34:01I mean, you keep up on everything, current events, you
- 34:04know, politics, you know, economic growth.
- 34:09Can you give me your insight as to what you think is happening
- 34:12with this new UAP situation that's going on here?
- 34:16The, the UFO situation, the government's admitting that
- 34:19there's craft visiting Earth from unknown origins.
- 34:24The Pentagon's went on record saying that they're in the house
- 34:27right now talking about Full disclosure.
- 34:30Ex pilots are talking about a people up in the upper echelon,
- 34:34government of Guam record talking about the the data and
- 34:37the interview. David Grush came out and talked
- 34:40about it. Who is in the upper echelon of
- 34:42the government and former military as well.
- 34:45Commander David Fraver, long time major in the Air Force, has
- 34:49gone on record talking about the Tic Tac incident that I believe
- 34:52occurred in 2004. Do you don't talk?
- 34:54About I know I'm a big UFO guy so I just love this from jail.
- 34:57I just talked to my son about it.
- 34:59Listen, if you go through the pyramids and seeing what was
- 35:01drawn and written on pyramids from one end of the world to
- 35:05another when they had no way of getting to each other, how would
- 35:07they know them to be writing and drawing the same thing?
- 35:11First second, they know because there was ships that just
- 35:15recently were on their radar and they that it was live.
- 35:19They reported it. Airline pilots, just what you
- 35:21said that reported it. This country and every country
- 35:25understands and and I believe, like if you're a God believer
- 35:28person, which I am, and it took me a long time.
- 35:31You know, I used to it was a lot of things that I questioned, but
- 35:35it's ignorant for us in a world this universe that's forever
- 35:41infinite to believe we're the only ones here.
- 35:43It's just it's not logically thinking.
- 35:46It's just not and we're energy. Our bodies are energy.
- 35:50Energy never dies and without getting to a million stories
- 35:54about my daughter, things happened with her that I wasn't
- 35:57drunk. I wasn't anything or TV went on
- 36:00when I went up in a room. I didn't even know what worked.
- 36:02I went through this on one of my shows downstairs.
- 36:05I have a an earned with the an Angel urn with her ashes in it.
- 36:11I'll leave the house and I'll take you downstairs.
- 36:13I'll show you. We'll shake it.
- 36:14We'll do everything you want. That light will not go on.
- 36:17I come home. Some days the lights on can't
- 36:19explain it. I went to Las Vegas and the girl
- 36:23sat next to me and that was very upset about my daughter.
- 36:26I just called my sister and the girl start talking to me.
- 36:29The bartender, it was breakfast. He was with her boyfriend.
- 36:31He asked for identification. She says why would you ask him
- 36:34for me? I'm 30 years old.
- 36:36My birthday was the same exact day and month as my daughter.
- 36:38And yeah, so I could continue with some of these.
- 36:41The lights went on twice in my house.
- 36:43So do I believe in UFO? 100%.
- 36:46And because they hide things just like the when they don't
- 36:50talk about something like anything else, if was so safe,
- 36:55they would debate it. They would let you talk.
- 36:57They'll let you ask a million questions.
- 36:59It's like me telling you don't cross the street and I say I'm
- 37:02telling you why. Because if you cross, you're
- 37:03going to die and you're going to say there's no cause.
- 37:05And for me not to be able to open that explanation to you,
- 37:08then I'm hiding something. Obviously when they're not
- 37:10transparent, something's wrong. And when they don't not
- 37:12transparent about the UFO, same thing.
- 37:14Do you have you ever considered running for anything?
- 37:17Any kind of. Yeah, I've talked about it a lot
- 37:18actually. And I wish I it was a
- 37:20possibility that I could, I mean, what my background, who
- 37:22knows? If somebody asked me, would you
- 37:25run? I would definitely run.
- 37:26Can I I just want to say something real quick for to
- 37:29John. Did I pipe Mikey lazy eye with
- 37:34the tire iron and set that Google ad great yes I did.
- 37:38Did I have a three-way with the two big bazooka woman off over
- 37:41at the Copa lounge? Yes I did.
- 37:43Did. Are you going to have a
- 37:44trademark that yes I did. That needs to be on a T-shirt
- 37:50with you in the jumpsuit looking like a supermodel.
- 37:53Oh yeah. OK.
- 37:55All right, John, we'll wrap it up.
- 37:56We could literally sit here. And talk to you all.
- 37:59But. We talk politics.
- 38:01I'll talk all day and night. I just.
- 38:04I want to advocate for the inner city, for the that goes on.
- 38:07I want to give them a chance at life.
- 38:09Real quick then for you, let the people know that are listening
- 38:13and watching what platforms you have so they can listen to you
- 38:18or hear what you have to say as well.
- 38:20I'm on YouTube, my name John Elite, Elite, Elite, whatever
- 38:25way you want to say it ALITE I'm on Instagram under my name, also
- 38:29John Elite. I'm on Tiktok.
- 38:32They run it for me through Europe.
- 38:34I'm on Instagram, which you know, Facebook.
- 38:37I got a mount of pages on that. You can see me in the magazine.
- 38:42Recently I just did Life magazine cover in Germany,
- 38:45Centerfolder, GQ magazine, Forbes magazine, the Hollywood
- 38:49magazine. I'm filming a new movie called
- 38:51Pony. I'm on Netflix, a couple of
- 38:53different series, Fear City and another one called How to Become
- 38:57a Boss. I did a four part series in
- 39:01Denmark with Klaus on his life story, The Downfall of a Drug
- 39:04Lord, The Viking. I did Perfect Gangster, that's
- 39:07out. I did mafias one and two in the
- 39:09UK, they're all #1 Perfect Gangster, the Mafia's one and
- 39:12two with Trevor McDonald. They were number one.
- 39:14I did a couple comedy series. I did an action film that'll be
- 39:18out shortly and I got a couple things in the work.
- 39:20I have a lot of songs that are out there that rappers have done
- 39:24with me. You're making me feel like I did
- 39:26a intro for you with all the stuff that I left out.
- 39:29I mean, this guy's, this guy's all over the place.
- 39:31Can you plug your books too? Yeah, selling books.
- 39:34I've got five books out. I have Gotti's Rules, Darkest
- 39:39Hour, Mafia International, Death Haven and Prison Rules.
- 39:44It's more of a handbook if you go to jail.
- 39:46I did that with Nick, Christopher, George, Anastasia.
- 39:49I did Gotti's Rules with Susan Pike.
- 39:52I did The Darkest Hour with and the Romano I did Mafia
- 39:57International with. And do you have your own website
- 39:59where you sell books or? Merch.
- 40:01Yeah, you go on my websites, John, elite.com and merchandise,
- 40:04insurance and pictures. I do special appearances for
- 40:09events, talks, weddings, lectures, school events.
- 40:13If anybody wants to hire me, you could come on my the Katie
- 40:17answers any of the inquiries. Awesome.
- 40:22All right, Sir, it's been an absolute pleasure and an honor,
- 40:25man. Truly appreciate it.
- 40:27Right, John Elite, everyone. Thank you.
- 40:29Thanks. Pleasure, Matt.
- 40:31Pleasure, Matt. Appreciate it.