John Alite - John Alite Mafia International: Gotti Enforcer for the Gambino Crime Family

John Alite

MAFIA INTERNATIONAL

Gotti Enforcer for the Gambino Crime Family

LOUIS ROMANO

Copyright 2021 John Alite, Louis Romano

Diamond Publishing Company

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The events, places, and conversations in this memoir have been recreated from Mr. Alites memory and to the best of his ability. The author assumes everything told to him to be true and as factual as possible. When necessary, the names and identifying characteristics of individuals and places have been changed to maintain anonymity. The publisher assumes no risk.

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Cover photography by Fadil Berisha

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Acknowledgments

I d like to thank Louis Romano for taking on this project and getting it completed. His strong commitment and brilliant style of writing makes him second to none.

John Alite

While writing this book I spent a great deal of time with John Alite, listening to hundreds of his stories on his personal life and his life in organized crime. I am ever grateful John selected me to write his story.

I am also grateful to Anthony Ruggiano, Jr. for revealing to me the history on his father, and their relationship with John Alite.

There are quite a few people with whom I interviewed in gathering information for this book Italians and Albanians, organized crime members and civilians, all who worked in some way with John during his years with the Gambino crime family. I thank those who contrib- uted to this book whose names I will not expose here.

Kathleen Collins did her usual brilliant job of advising me on the story, editing the book, proofreading, and putting the physical book together.

Special thanks to Bridget Fuchsel for her expert proofreading. Bril- liant is not enough of a word to describe her.

Louis Romano

Dedication

I want to dedicate this book to all my family and friends on the street who died, and to my father who taught me to never quit and to push through to be successful.

To all the young people: The contrast of years living the high life compared to getting life is vast. Ten or twenty years on the streets is paled by looking at forty-plus years behind bars.

John Alite

I dedicate this book in a gratitude of thanks to John Alite, to the young people he encourages to live a life free of criminal activity.

Louis Romano

A Note From the Author

MEETING JOHN

F ortunately for me , I met John Alite several times over lunches and dinners.

The first time was at The River Palm Restaurant in Edgewater, New Jersey. A great, busy spot with fabulous food.

I selected a semi-circular, high-backed leather and rich mahogany appointed booth not far from the long, crowded bar.

To look like a writer, I wore a black golf shirt under a maroon sports jacket and jeans. John came in wearing a tight black leather jacket over a tighter white button-down shirt and black pants. His shirt had the first few buttons opened, exposing his firm, buffed chest and a tattoo that crawled up to his tanned neck.

After ten minutes, I could no longer suck in my gut, and I just let my belly flop over my belt.

We were meeting to discuss a possible role for John in a movie we were planning for my book BESA, which is about the Albanian mob having a war with the New York mafia.

John gave me a rapid-fire soliloquy on the many crimes he committed while in the mafia, the horrific jails he did time at in Brazil, and what led him to cooperate with the federal government.

John recognized someone at the bar and just gave them a cold stare.

At that point, I realized if anyone was going to put a hit on John, I would be shot and killed.

John, I have to ask you a question. Sure, Lou.

Arent you ever worried about anyone from the mob, like the Gambinos or someone, walking in and...you know...?

He flashed his pearl-white teeth and got serious.

They have to worry about me. I did all the work, and they know what Im capable of.

At that moment, I knew he was the baddest, toughest, most fear- less man I would ever meet in my entire life.

LOUIS ROMANO

My good friend, ex-FBI, David Gentile. A true gentleman.

Me speaking to troubled youths

John Alite MAFIA INTERNATIONAL

Gotti Enforcer for the Gambino Crime Family As Told to Author Louis Romano

This is a riveting, real-life story of John Alite, whose multi-mil- lion-dollar heroin and cocaine deals, robberies, savage beatings and murders, and New York mafia street life as a hit man and enforcer for the Gambino crime family expanded into his own worldwide operation. Its all chronicled here, and how that glamorous, yet treacherous life led to John being a man on the run and a man who realized he could never trust anyone except himself. Having been captured numerous times, hell explain what it was like to be in prisons around the world, some- times with terrorists, famous people, and well-known gang members, and when it all came crashing down, and he decided to change his life.

Alite has been soundly criticized by some former mob members and others regarding his sincerity with respect to his work with young people.

Alites focus is to prevent the kids from glorifying the mob. They view the mafia from what they see in films and on television and various pod casts and do not understand the evil and treachery which is pervasive in that life.

Following Alites many lectures at high schools, colleges and institutes, and how he replies and counsels to the hundreds of e-mails he receives from young people, is proof positive of his noble intentions.