attempt to kill John Gotti, april 1987

[felice]

is anyone aware of this? reliable?

from a very valid source to FBI

on april 30, 1987 an unknown male tried to kill John Gotti by shooting him. Episode was in Queen just accross the Huntingdon Gun Club that was a John Gambino's place. Shooter missed Gotti, tried to run away but he was reached and killed by Gotti's gunmen. He was later dumped in Staten Island close to a Candy store runned by Joe Cat La Forte.
According to the source, the hitter was from Yonkers and has been in jail for narcotics

right the day before, on april 29 Gotti made a visit to John Gambino at Caffè Giardino

according to source there was not a good relationship between Gotti and Gambino and he suspected hit was ochestrated by Gambino. Right in those days Giuseppe Gambino held an emergency meeting with people from Cherry Hill

[HairyKnuckles]

is anyone aware of this? reliable?

from a very valid source to FBI

on april 30, 1987 an unknown male tried to kill John Gotti by shooting him. Episode was in Queen just accross the Huntingdon Gun Club that was a John Gambino's place. Shooter missed Gotti, tried to run away but he was reached and killed by Gotti's gunmen. He was later dumped in Staten Island close to a Candy store runned by Joe Cat La Forte.
According to the source, the hitter was from Yonkers and has been in jail for narcotics

right the day before, on april 29 Gotti made a visit to John Gambino at Caffè Giardino

according to source there was not a good relationship between Gotti and Gambino and he suspected hit was ochestrated by Gambino. Right in those days Giuseppe Gambino held an emergency meeting with people from Cherry Hill

I remember that. But I think it was a retard kid who showed his gun in front of Gotti and his paranoid guys went bananas. They found the kid dead later. It must have been in any of the books on Gotti but I don't remember which one.

[SonnyBlackstein]

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/02/nyreg ... -body.html

[Pogo The Clown]

If my memory is correct the shooter was a nephew or something of Danny Marino. I was definitely one of the Capos. It was in one of the Gotti books.


Pogo

[Hailbritain]

is anyone aware of this? reliable?

from a very valid source to FBI

on april 30, 1987 an unknown male tried to kill John Gotti by shooting him. Episode was in Queen just accross the Huntingdon Gun Club that was a John Gambino's place. Shooter missed Gotti, tried to run away but he was reached and killed by Gotti's gunmen. He was later dumped in Staten Island close to a Candy store runned by Joe Cat La Forte.
According to the source, the hitter was from Yonkers and has been in jail for narcotics

right the day before, on april 29 Gotti made a visit to John Gambino at Caffè Giardino

according to source there was not a good relationship between Gotti and Gambino and he suspected hit was ochestrated by Gambino. Right in those days Giuseppe Gambino held an emergency meeting with people from Cherry Hill

I remember that. But I think it was a retard kid who showed his gun in front of Gotti and his paranoid guys went bananas. They found the kid dead later. It must have been in any of the books on Gotti but I don't remember which one.

William ciccone

[felice]

a lot of info on the gambino family coming in the next days, I got thousands of pages about the iron tower investigation from italian authorities

[SonnyBlackstein]

a lot of info on the gambino family coming in the next days, I got thousands of pages about the iron tower investigation from italian authorities

Great stuff felice. Looking forward.

[B.]

a lot of info on the gambino family coming in the next days, I got thousands of pages about the iron tower investigation from italian authorities

Your info is always a game-changer for any discussion. Thanks, man.

[yatescj7781]

If my memory is correct the shooter was a nephew or something of Danny Marino. I was definitely one of the Capos. It was in one of the Gotti books.


Pogo

I thought it was some religious nut relative of Sonny Ciccone. Heard Boriello pegged a shot and hit him in the ass to slow him down.

[gohnjotti]

If my memory is correct the shooter was a nephew or something of Danny Marino. I was definitely one of the Capos. It was in one of the Gotti books.


Pogo

I thought it was some religious nut relative of Sonny Ciccone. Heard Boriello pegged a shot and hit him in the ass to slow him down.

"Six weeks after the verdict in Brooklyn, as Gotti bounced out of the Bergin one sunny day, a man standing in the doorway of a florist shop across the street pulled a gun and fired a single shot at Gotti. The man wore two pairs of trousers, apparently so he could discard one and confuse potential witnesses. But his aim was bad, and so was his immediate future.

Gotti ducked back into the Bergin as the gunman fled on foot, an unusual mode of conveyance for a professional assassin. Several Gotti men gave chase; one, Bobby Boriello, a favored bodyguard, drew a pistol and brought the target down with a single shot to the buttocks - a remarkable shot, since he was two blocks away.

In view of many bystanders who later said they had seen nothing, the wounded man was put into the backseat of a black car that gilded over from the Bergin a moment later. The man - presumably an assassin who could now be forced to tell who sent him - was taken to Staten Island and into the basement of a newsstand and candy shop whose real owner was a Gambino capo.

The name of the store - Paul's Sweet Shoppe - would have been nicely ironic of the attempted assassination had anything to do with Sparks. But the more Gotti's men tortured Jeffrey Ciccone, the more he wailed that he had been sent by God - that Jesus had told him Gotti was the devil - and the more they began to believe that he was a lone crackpot."
...
"Early in the evening, tired of bashing the hapless Ciccone around, Watts (Joe Watts, the backup shooter at Sparks) dispatched a messenger to Gotti. "The guy is a freakin' Jesus freak, nuts too," Watts said via the messenger, "He wasn't workin' for nobody. He's just a whack. What the fuck do you want me to do with him." Gotti issued a two-word response: 'Kill 'im.'"
...
"In a twist that was nicely ironic, the victim turned out to be a distant relative of Sonny Ciccone - a Gambino capo who ran the rackets that were left at the city's once-grand shipping piers.
In a hurried visit to Gotti, Sonny Ciccone emphasized how distant the blood tie was. "He's some kind of bullshit relative, a second or third cousin, or something. I haven't seen the fuck in years. He's a nut case, that's all."
"Forget about it," Gotti said boisterously. "The world's full of 'em. But good thing he was a lousy shot!"

This is from Gotti: The Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain.

[Schmuckatelli]

I

[Manhattan_]

I still have a news clip regarding this hit attempt about 3-4 mins. In length along with a lot of early JG footage , going to watch it later today .

[mafiastudent]

Looking forward to your info, Felice.

[stubbs]

So the Comello / Cali situation has precedense. I guess history really does repeat itself after all, lol.

[Manhattan_]

I can send to anyone 6-7 mins . of quality video of the Gotti hit attempt and the body of the suspect being found in the sweet shop on Staten Island . CBS /Slattery and NBC John Miller are the reporters . Must promise to post the video here bc I don’t know how to do it . Just pm me .