DiLeonardo testified that the first committee set up after the arrest of the administration was Junior Gotti, Pete Gotti, Louis Vallario, James Failla and John D'Amico. He also said this about Junior's role:
Q. By the time Gotti, Sr. formed this ruling committee with these five individuals, what rank did each of the five of them hold?
A. They were all captains.
Q. And who was the youngest member of this five-member ruling committee?
A. John, Jr.
Q. Who was the most powerful?
A. John, Jr.
Q. Why was that?
A. He was in stead for his father. Everything had to go through him before a decision was made or kicked up to his pop.
Later he was asked about surveillance photographs of Bobby Boriello's funeral in April 1991:
Q. Is there any significance to the order in which you are walking out of the church together?
A. Well, from the proximity, John's the acting boss at that time running the family, Jackie is on the committee, and that's me.
Junior Gotti offered DiLeonardo a position on the committee to replace Failla:
Q. Did John Gotti, Jr. ever offer you a higher position in the Gambino family than that of official captain?
A. Yes.
Q. What was that?
A. He wanted me to be on the committee, be up front on the committee and help out run the family.
Q. Approximately when did he make that offer to you?
A. I believe it was when Jimmy Brown gets pinched and was on his way to jail.
Q. Jimmy Brown Failla?
A. Jimmy Brown Failla pinched sometime in April '93, he goes away the fall of '94, so it was somewhere around there.
Q. And did you accept John Gotti, Jr.'s position, offer of a position on the ruling committee of the family?
A. No. I figured it was best to turn it down, for several reasons. One, I was young. There was a lot of oldtimers out there. I advised John it would be a bad precedent to put me up there, being everybody knows how close we are, leave the oldtimers up front and, you know, I could escape some law enforcement scrutiny at that level. It gets around right away, law enforcement finds out I got a promotion, I would got a lot of heat. It wouldn't be good for the both of us.
Selwyn Raab wrote this about the comittee in November 1993:
The officials said Mr. Gotti had appointed as his surrogates his son, John Jr., and his elder brother, Peter. The others were identified by the authorities as John D'Amico, a staunch ally of Mr. Gotti, and Joseph T. Arcuri, 80, who is viewed as the elder statesman of the crime group.
The four men are known inside the Gambino family as "the administration," officials said.
Arcuri could have been the replacement for Failla or he could have replaced Vallario.
DiLeonardo said this about Grammauta in the Q&A in the mugshots section:
Steve was not earning any money and was inactive for many years, Jack D’Amico knew him well and brought him back in play, Steve was with jack the actor, and both jacks hated each other. Jr. and I gave him a few thousand every month out of the money brought in, after awhile Jack said lets put him up front he was given an acting position on the committee, good old timer, tough guy.
On the timeline of Peter Gotti's promotion to acting boss:
I refused consiglieri because Pete and Arnold were going to be boss and underboss, and Jr was not going to be in the admin.
Squitieri was released from prison I believe in 1999.
