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“King of the Night” – Profile of Greek crime boss Vassilis Stefanakos
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2020-02-20T17:37:41.000Z
2020-02-20T17:37:41.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/king-of-the-night-profile-of-greek-crime-boss-vassilis-stefanakos" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237149081,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237149081?profile=original" /></a>By Milko for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Vassilis Stefanakos (photo above) was born in 1961 in a suburb of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Athens" target="_blank">Athens</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Greece" target="_blank">Greece</a>. He was involved in smuggling oil and cigarettes, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a>, and protection rackets. After the death of his boss at the start of the 21<sup>st</sup> century, he became one of the new leaders of his organization, alongside Aristidis Lakiotis and Ioannis Skaftouros.</p>
<p>It is alleged that Stefanakos ordered the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Murder" target="_blank">murder</a> of rival crime boss Themis Kalapotharakos, but he was never convicted. However, in 2006, the law did find him guilty in absentia of assault, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Smuggling" target="_blank">smuggling</a>, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Racketeering" target="_blank">racketeering</a>, and sentenced him to 14,5 years in prison. Thanks to false identities given to him by corrupt police, he managed to evade justice.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-greek-crime-boss-alexandros-angelopoulos" target="_blank"><strong>Greek crime boss "The Greek Escobar" Angelopoulos</strong></a></li>
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<p>Until January 2008, when he was arrested in the vicinity of his residence in the Athens suburb of Haïdari. Later, he was also sentenced to 21 years behind bars for his involvement in a murder committed by Alket Rizai and for helping Rizai and Vassilis Palaiocostas during a prison break in 2006.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237149870,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237149870?profile=original" /></a>He was released from prison in August of 2016 thanks to an early release law passed by the Greek government in 2015. He didn’t get to enjoy his freedom for long. On January 17, 2018, Stefanakos was shot dead in Haïdari, Athens. He was 57 years old.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-greek-crime-boss-panagiotis-vlastos" target="_blank"><strong>Greek crime boss Panagiotis Vlastos</strong></a></li>
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<p>Assassins used at least one AK-47 and police found at least 22 bullet casings at the murder scene. They were waiting for Stefanakos and ambushed him when he exited his home. He wasn’t an easy target because he always moved around in an armored car and with a bodyguard.</p>
<p>As he was about to get into his car, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Hitman" target="_blank">hitmen</a> came riding in on a motorcycle. One of the men opened the passenger door and sprayed bullets at the defenseless crime boss.</p>
<p><em><strong>Milko (a pseudonym) is a Dutchman who has studied organized crime in the Netherlands, its history, and its offshoots in foreign countries for over two decades. He is also very knowledgeable about crime in other European countries and is eager to share his information.</strong></em></p>
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Murder on the Dancefloor: The demise of Gambino Mafia family soldier Anthony Mascuzzio
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2019-11-03T14:53:10.000Z
2019-11-03T14:53:10.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/murder-on-the-dancefloor-the-demise-of-gambino-mafia-family-soldi" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237135082,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237135082?profile=original" /></a>By Thom L. Jones for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Being in the mob isn't all beer and skittles.</p>
<p>Created in 1970, the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, by 1985, had been used almost one thousand times, to bring criminal and civil cases. RICO was one of the legal weapons the cops and the Feds based used as their yardstick to track and measure their success fighting, what at times, seemed an endless battle against the New York <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mafia</a>.</p>
<p>What everyone now called <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LCN" target="_blank">Cosa Nostra</a>, since <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/catching-the-bounce-the-story-of-joseph-valachi" target="_blank">Joe Valachi</a> brought the word into the public lexicon during the 1963 Senate investigation. Every law enforcement agent was after them, day and night. Lot of pressure. Lot of stress and aggravation.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Shorty” of the Gambino crime family</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237135868,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237135868?profile=original" /></a>One of the guys they were chasing was Anthony J. Mascuzzio (left), part of perhaps, the most prominent Mafia clan in America, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview" target="_blank">Gambinos</a>. His nickname was “Shorty,” for fairly obvious reasons. Solid, tough, and violent when required, he was a classic example of a Mafia foot-soldier.</p>
<p>He was aware that they were watching him, just waiting for a mistake. A wrong turn on a one-way street, spitting on the sidewalk, hustling his associates, looking for a breach. The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> had a special unit called “C-16, the Gambino Squad,” to investigate people like him.</p>
<p>That was the easy part. The hard part was the “Goth”.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gotti" target="_blank">John Joseph Gotti</a> was a 45-year-old thug from Queens when he murdered the family head, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Castellano" target="_blank">Paul Castellano</a>.</p>
<p>Gotti didn't do any shooting himself; he sat in a car, a hundred yards away, and watched his killers do their job. Big Paul and his bodyguard, Tommy, hit in the head, multiple times, outside a posh steak restaurant on <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Manhattan" target="_blank">Manhattan</a>’s East Side, the week before Xmas, 1985. They never got their topside, rare.</p>
<p>Gotti and his side-kick, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gravano" target="_blank">Sammy “Bull” Gravano</a>, sitting in a Lincoln Town Car, tinted windows, watching the show of all shows. That year, at least.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-mean-street-in-queens-to-kill-a-cop" target="_blank"><strong>A Mean Street in Queens: To Kill a Cop</strong></a></li>
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<p>After the shooting, Gotti drove his car slowly through the intersection, past the carnage. “Tommy’s down,” said Gravano, referring to Bilotti, Castellano’s driver and bodyguard, sprawled like a religious figure, arms and legs outstretched on the road, leaking blood.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Most powerful Mafia boss in America</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237136085,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237136085?profile=original" /></a>For <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gotti" target="_blank">Gotti</a> (right), it was a beginning but also an end, although that was a few years away. In 1988, he was, arguably, the most powerful Mafia boss in America. Without any doubt the most publicized. At the time of Castellano’s murder Gotti was being tried in a Brooklyn Federal court under a RICO indictment.</p>
<p>His surname, in Italian, derives from “Goth” after the wild, barbaric hordes who swept down into Italy, from what is now, Germany. In the sixth century, they overran the country and settled in various areas, including <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Campania" target="_blank">Campania</a>, which is where Gotti’s grandparents lived before emigrating to America.</p>
<p>The media would come to call John Gotti by many handles, referring to him mostly as “The Teflon Don.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Black John”</strong></span></p>
<p>Mascuzzio knew him best as “Black John,” his moods being, at least, uncertain. He was not an easy guy as a boss. Although he claimed, “I never lie because I don’t fear anyone.” It’s possible he was driven by the fear of being left behind and becoming a tragedy. Mobsters lived lives that were more than quiet desperation, earning each day to stay in the game and watching their backs against friends, as well as enemies.</p>
<p>Gotti paid “Shorty” $500 a week to be his driver and bodyguard. The theory being: keep him hungry, make him work harder.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rumble-at-rao-s-it-s-not-over-till-the-fat-lady-sings-the-night-l" target="_blank">Rumble at Rao's</a>: It's not over 'till The Fat Lady Sings - The night Louie Lump Lump chose the gun over the cannoli</strong></li>
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<p>Better than many others, this soldier who was close to the boss, knew the kind of man he was - bombastic, flamboyant, narcissistic, a tyrant with a hair-trigger temper. His son once stated, “He had a volcanic temper. He would bite your head off.”</p>
<p>The first media Don, perhaps the only one, his public flamboyance, swagger, and ability to avoid trial convictions became legendary. High greed veneered over high style. Not so much a velvet fist as a designer glove.</p>
<p>Ronald Goldstock, head of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force once described him:</p>
<p>“You know what he’s like? He’s like the last piton on the mountain. All the little mob guys are hanging on to him for dear life.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Pornography, strippers, robbery and gambling</strong></span></p>
<p>If John Gotti was no angel, neither was Mascuzzio. It’s been alleged he was involved in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview" target="_blank">Gambino Family</a>'s pornography business which was an endless <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Money" target="_blank">money-machine</a>. As a soldier in the crew of capo Bobby Boriello he operated illegal bookmaking, shy-locking, and of course, extortion, the stuff the mob lives on. He was screwing $700 a week out of Steve Kaplan, who would one day become owner of the infamous Gold Club of Atlanta, which provided some of America’s top professional athletes with women and sexual favors.</p>
<p>Mascuzzio’s police record dated back to the 1960s and he had been convicted on a number of charges including <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Robbery" target="_blank">robbery</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gambling" target="_blank">gambling</a>.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-kindness-of-death" target="_blank">The Kindness of Death</a>: How couple that robbed mob social club got whacked</strong></li>
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<p>“Shorty” had his 15 minutes of fame during another Gotti trial in 1987, when the media discovered him delivering appetizers and hero sandwiches to the crowds outside the courthouse. These came from an Italian deli he owned, or had taken over, called The Gelato Cafe on Court Street, in Cobble Hill, now one of the most expensive areas to live in New York. His address was listed as 81 Warren Street in the same area. When Gotti was released, he met him, shaking his hand on the way to their limo.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237136859,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237136859?profile=original" /></a><em>Photo: John Gotti and Anthony Mascuzzio</em></p>
<p>With a build and temperament like a hot baloney, his bad-ass attitude would contribute to him getting dead. What finished him was greed, a not uncommon trait in the people who run Cosa Nostra.</p>
<p>It was a disco that killed him.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Pea Nuts in Hell’s Kitchen</strong></span></p>
<p>Al Roth opened his club, Pea Nuts, later, changing its name to Better Days, at 316 West 49th Street, in 1972. Right in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen, one of the least salubrious districts of Manhattan, an area known then mainly for its strip clubs and rat infestation. Hookers on every corner, addicts wandering in their dreams. Playing a crucial role in establishing house music in New York, the club catered mostly to black people and was packed at weekends.</p>
<p>The cover fee was $3, there was a bar, a disc-jockey booth at one side, and 85% of the area was a dance floor. Some nights, especially Sundays, as many as 1500 people crowded in to listen to the music and dance until they dropped. Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, and other celebrities would visit to let their hair down when visiting the city.</p>
<p>Bruce Forest, a DeeJay who worked there for seven years, remembered when the owner told him, sometime in 1987, that he was changing his name. The little, pork-barrel of a man, who strutted around the club like Jimmy Cagney, said he was now calling himself David Fisher.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sammy-the-bull-gravano-is-a-free-man-but-more-importantly-a-poste" target="_blank">Sammy the Bull Gravano is a free man</a>, but also a poster boy for the dangers of dealing with gangsters</strong></li>
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<p>“I’m like, “Dude, I’ve seen your license!”</p>
<p>He goes, ‘If anybody asks you, that fuck Al Roth is dead.’</p>
<p>Okay.… One night in 1988, pretty early in the night, I saw a bunch of guys with suits come into the office to talk to Al. When they left, I went in there, because it just seemed a little weird. And he was sitting in a pool of sweat. I asked if he was okay, and he said, “Yeah, talk to me when the night’s over.” So the night ends, I go back into the office and ask, “Who the fuck were they?” He says, “Those were John Gotti’s guys. I think I was just bought out.” **</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237137263,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237137263?profile=original" /></a>Although never identified, the men in suits could have been Mascuzzio, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=DeCicco" target="_blank">Frank DeCicco</a>, the underboss of the family, and Gravano. Maybe Mike Napolitano, another guy who drove Gotti around, was one of them. Whoever they were, Mascuzzio was the pick-up man for the family, collecting rent for providing their protection, which the club had never needed in its sixteen years existence.</p>
<p>In Sicily, they call it “wetting the beak,” in New York, they would collect “the envelope.” Fancy names for <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Extortion" target="_blank">extortion</a>, the holy grail of Cosa Nostra.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Murder on the dancefloor</strong></span></p>
<p>Following their visit, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview" target="_blank">Gambinos</a> tried repositioning the club from a gay disco into a trendy, yuppy place, catering for the young and restless from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Brooklyn" target="_blank">Brooklyn</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Queens" target="_blank">Queens</a>, re-naming it Bedrox Disco, until the Hanna-Barbara corporation sued for trademark infringement, and it was gone by 1990.</p>
<p>In the early morning hours of Friday, June 17, 1988, Mascuzzio arrived at the club to pick up the envelope. Packed, as usual, full of musical noise and the screams and yelling of hundreds of young party-goers, the place was pumping like crazy as the weekend was taking off. Maybe in the final moments of his life, the mobster stood at the crowded bar and had a drink; free of course.</p>
<p>The police arrived a little after 2:30 am. They had been called in to investigate a shooting in the basement office of the club. There, they found Fisher severely injured, and Mascuzzio lying on the floor. He had been shot twice, once in the neck and once in the body. He was very dead.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mob-boss-john-gotti-s-grandson-is-introducing-the-world-of-mixed" target="_blank">Mob boss John Gotti’s grandson</a> is introducing the world of Mixed Martial Arts to the family’s fighting spirit</strong></li>
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<p>It was one of gangland’s more unique scenarios when a mobster, gun in hand, was outplayed by his victim.</p>
<p>Mascuzzio, when he died, was wearing a gold <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Rolex" target="_blank">Rolex watch</a>, the real kind, not an Asian knock-off. It would re-surface twenty years later on a different wrist, but in the same family and again, in a scene of turmoil. </p>
<p>Some sources claim Fisher had been pistol-whipped by Mascuzzio because the envelope wasn’t ready. He was carrying a small .32 caliber handgun, which is why Fisher survived the beating. Big, heavy gun might have killed him.</p>
<p>Defending himself, with his own .38 Colt Cobra revolver, he had shot the hoodlum in self-defense. It was also reported, the club owner suffered a heart attack. Either way, he was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, two miles to the south in Kips Bay. He was never convicted of the killing of Mascuzzio.</p>
<p>The mobster was buried with all the usual pomp and ceremony gangsters seem to expect, for reasons known only to their own weird tribes, from The Church of Sacred Hearts of St. Steven, on Hicks Street, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237137461,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237137461?profile=original" /></a><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Son follows the father</strong></span></p>
<p>On his eighteenth birthday, Anthony, son of Anthony, was given a beautiful Rolex gold watch by his mother. The one his late father had worn the night he died. Anthony Junior wore it proudly as he made his way, step by step through the world of organized crime. He graduated into the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview" target="_blank">Gambinos</a> as an associate, a made man in waiting. His pedigree was perfect. Another generation wiseguy in the making.</p>
<p>In September 2010, arrested on a DUI charge, at the NYPD 62nd Precinct, he was injured struggling with police officers over custody of the watch; he later sued the city for $2 million in damages.</p>
<p>Four months later, he was again arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking. Released from custody, in July 2016, he was once more arrested as part of a burglary ring operating in Brooklyn and Queens accused of stealing $5 million, and is currently serving a seven-year sentence.</p>
<p>In the Mafia orchard, the apple is never far from the ground.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Tough guys don’t dance”</strong></span></p>
<p>Better Days is gone; in its place, a Brazilian steak-house. People go there now to sit and get full of meat instead of dancing around getting full of drugs. Gotti went to prison wearing his traditional smirk and came out in a coffin.</p>
<p>Arrested in 1990, he died in a federal medical facility in Missouri in 2002. While in prison at Marion, Illinois, he had been beaten to a pulp by a black man whose race he had insulted. It’s claimed this led to the throat and mouth cancer that would finally claim him as he lay handcuffed to a hospital bed.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/this-is-for-you-frank-profile-of-mafia-boss-frank-costello" target="_blank">Frank Costello</a>, a real mobster, of the old school, once said, “Tough guys don’t dance.” Perhaps Mascuzzio should have been aware of that the night he walked into a building filled with dancing.</p>
<p>Some sources claim David Fisher committed suicide. Maybe he did, or perhaps he still lives in Monsey, Rockland County, upstate New York, where his address was listed in newspaper reports. He was 53 the night of the shooting, so if he’s still around, he’s getting on.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview" target="_blank">Gambino Crime Family</a> is still around. It has been in one form or another, for a hundred years or more. While there is a demand, there is always a supply. As a result, there will be a never-ending reservoir to tap of mob stories in the years to come.</p>
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Mob rat John Alite got beat up at a strip club
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/mob-rat-john-alite-got-beat-up-at-a-strip-club
2017-06-06T09:30:00.000Z
2017-06-06T09:30:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mob-rat-john-alite-got-beat-up-at-a-strip-club" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237089688,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237089688?profile=original" width="520" /></a>By Chris Kasparoza</p>
<p>Ever since mob rat John Alite began his media/defamation tour before the release of his "<em>biography"</em> in January 2015 he’s bragged in interview after interview what a tough guy and accomplished killer he is. He even preaches how he walks the streets of New York by himself without security because he has no fear of retribution.</p>
<p>However, that’s not true:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237090074,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237090074?profile=original" width="620" /></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237091072,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237091072?profile=original" width="620" /></a><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/judge-to-rule-if-gambino-rat-alite-violated-supervised-release" target="_blank">John Alite</a> has a personal bodyguard — name withheld — who was spotted protecting him at his interviews for <em><a href="https://youtu.be/swR4wY8CTn8" target="_blank">Crime Watch Daily</a></em> and <em><a href="http://nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2016-10-13-tjener-kassen-paa-sit-tidligere-liv-jeg-har-nok-draebt-15-16-personer" target="_blank">Crime Does Not Pay?</a></em> who also kept Alite safe during the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BEm4pezGiKH/" target="_blank">filming</a> of his fictional “documentary” about himself which he has the nerve to call <em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1073818976002165&set=pb.100001222195557.-2207520000.1496462168.&type=3&theater" target="_blank">The Perfect Gangster</a></em>, and who appears across Alite’s Instagram and Facebook at all sorts of events making sources ask JohnAliteFacts.com “Why?” as Alite is known to use the “n-word” and other derogatory terms for African Americans (read more about that <a href="http://johnalitefacts.com/rapinggirls/" target="_blank">here</a>). In addition, sources report that John Alite is known to hire off duty law enforcement to do security for him and it’s believed that while filming some of his <em>projects</em> he has had FBI agents stationed nearby.</p>
<p>But, perhaps there’s a legitimate reason for that as multiple sources contacted <a href="http://www.JohnAliteFacts.com" target="_blank">JohnAliteFacts.com</a> in early April reporting an incident at <a href="http://sugardaddysnyc.com/" target="_blank">Sugardaddy’s</a>, a strip club in Queens, New York on the night of Saturday, April 1st.</p>
<p>According to eyewitness reports — and if <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/judge-to-rule-if-gambino-rat-alite-violated-supervised-release" target="_blank">John Alite</a> disputes this, he can always pull the security footage, which for all we know he’s already had law enforcement do — there was a birthday party there that night for an Albanian and Alite apparently thought he would be honored to have him as Alite has been trying to turn himself into an Albanian folk hero and some <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albanians</a> seem to be buying it… but, when Alite walked into the party? Feeling safe and secure among his people, as he arrived without his bodyguard? The Albanian approached Alite, who he did not want there and who was not invited, and said: “Why are you here? I don’t know you like that.” And was about to have him thrown out when Alite pleaded to be able to stay, leading the Albanian to allow him to, but under the condition he not join his party and sit on the opposite side of the club.</p>
<p>When, someone from a different party, whose identity is being withheld thought he recognized Alite. He approached him with a big smile, extended his hand and said: “Before I shake your hand, are you John Alite?”</p>
<p>Flattered, Alite replied that he was. He thought he was a fan.</p>
<p>But: he wasn’t. This individual “slapped” Alite with a left, and after Alite fell back a few feet pummeled him with a dizzying array of hard punches.</p>
<p>Stunned, Alite “got his ass handed to him” and ran behind some bouncers, seeking shelter and screaming at them to “Call 911!” as he took out his phone and made calls himself.</p>
<p>Afraid to go out the front door where he might not be safe, Alite ran out the back of the small club to what he thought would be his safety… But, unfortunately for Alite, behind Sugardaddy’s is a canal leading into Newtown Creek/the East River and he was blocked from accessing the street.</p>
<p>Desperate and seemingly fearing for his life, John Alite jumped into this sewage and parasite infested water — some of the dirtiest on the planet — and refused to come out, again shouting at the bouncers to “Call 911!” (he dropped his phone before jumping in).</p>
<p>The bouncers told Alite to come out, but Alite wouldn’t without law enforcement to protect him.</p>
<p>Luckily for John Alite, however, minutes later his uninvited sons also showed up for the birthday party and sources gave the following accounts:</p>
<p>One said that the sons approached the front entrance and introduced themselves like they were welcome, ready to attend the party, but the bouncers told them to get lost, and after they realized what was happening, they threatened to call 911.</p>
<p>Upon further investigation, however, it was revealed that one of the sons got out of the car with his phone in hand telling the bouncers that he had 911 on the line and demanded to know where his father was.</p>
<p>After which, they were brought to the back of the club, by the canal, and Alite finally felt safe enough to come out of the sewage… but, with only one shoe on as the other was lost to the river.</p>
<p>The bouncers put him in their car, they took off, and shortly after the police arrived. Because, according to one source, after Alite dropped his phone as he “leaped into the water scared for his life,” he left it behind after he got in the car, after which this source looked at his phone and saw the last two calls: the first to 911, and right after that another to a “Johnny Jr.,” believed to be Alite’s son.</p>
<p>Which begs the question: Is John Alite so selfish that after calling 911 possibly scared for his life, he called his son to help him, knowing that he’d be putting his son in what he believed was life-threatening danger also?</p>
<p>John Alite more or less confirmed this story after I started asking around about it a week later.</p>
<p>On April 8th I saw on Facebook that Stephen Newell, who testified against Alite as a defense witness at the 2009 Gotti trial and helped expose that Alite had been <a href="http://johnalitefacts.com/chased/" target="_blank">chased out of Queens</a> and his association with the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview" target="_blank">Gambino family</a> by <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/interview-john-gotti-jr-sits-down-with-gangsters-inc" target="_blank">John A. Gotti</a> in 1991 was in the company of Andy Deliana, the director of Alite’s fiction-based, upcoming “documentary.” So, I messaged Newell to ask Deliana if he knew about his star liar getting beat up and running into the water. Which obviously got back to Alite because on April 17th he went on <a href="http://www.theboneonline.com/news/former-mobster-john-alite-the-mike-calta-show/0QJb0qd1jZm7DOLWjb1eMN/?anvt=1314" target="_blank">The Mike Calta Show</a>, mentioned that I was bringing it up, and made the following warped statement, his own fictionalized, fantasized version of the events:</p>
<p>NOTE: I was having trouble embedding the video but to watch his rant <a href="http://www.theboneonline.com/news/former-mobster-john-alite-the-mike-calta-show/0QJb0qd1jZm7DOLWjb1eMN/?anvt=1314" target="_blank">click here</a> and forward to 21:54.</p>
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<p>“Guys talk about loyalty, it’s a joke. I mean I just had an incident recently at a, at a club, and, this is gonna go on, you know, always. And, I was in, you know, I had a couple of drinks, I was by myself, I was in an industrial area. And you have guys that are Albanian that are you know supposed to be loyal to me, and you know the message I’m sending out, and they’re hanging out with Serbs, which is a, you know a, especially what goes on with Albanians, Serbs and there’s a hero Ramush, that I talk about in Albania all the time that fought the war, that he’s in jail in Paris, and it’s disrespect to guys like him, disrespect to kids we’re trying to help. But, they’re weak guys. I mean the guy took a shot at me, went to, he hit me and he punched me on the blind side. And, this stuff’s gonna happen. I says, and I laugh at it, because, first of all the kid can’t even hit. I mean he should, he should be able to knock me out, and uh, you know he didn’t move me. And you know the next thing is somebody said to me well why didn’t I go outside and finish fighting? They showed up with 8 or 10 guys or whatever. So I said I didn’t have my Superman cape on that day. So I, I took a dive into the water, and uh, you know I said I had my Aquaman suit on. So I made a joke of it because I understand these guys. If they’re real serious guys, if you really want to be a gangster you’ll do what I did. You won’t come in and punch me in the face, you’ll come in and shoot me in the head. Or you’ll come and stab me up… These guys are trying to be something that I already know. If you’re a real guy, I came in the club, I’m gonna walk out the club. You caught me off guard a little bit because I, I don’t really drink, I get sloppy, I was drinking, I was alone. I’m in an industrial park, I’m in Queens… Well you know what I’ll tell you the truth, here’s the thing and you know this… You know, guys know, I walk around I do whatever I feel like doing. I’m really not worried about getting hit, I’m a boxer, I mean it’s almost laughable to get punched, so what… in the ring you’re hit 40, 50 times a day… I grew up like this, and you know, if someone’s gonna kill me, I says let it be. But, guys like the real guys, they just wait for me to come walking out the door. And they do what they need to do, shoot me. They ain’t gonna come in like an amateur and punch me. What are we, 12 years old? So, you know, this is the laughable part of the behavior of guys that are insecure. You turned on your own people. You know, actually after it was done, some of the Italians were making fun of him, saying this is a flunkie that wannabe Italian. So it is laughable, because, you know you’re going against your own people, you’re not even good at what you do. So, you know on a show like this I can tell you I says I’d love to get in a ring with him. And he fights so bad he can bring that Spanish guy he was with. So, I’ll fight the two of them… That’s an open challenge to two guys that can’t fight too well… I just did celebrity boxing… well, I didn’t do it, Junior wouldn’t get in the ring, I asked him.”</p>
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<p>But, forget that his version of events is nowhere near accurate, as the club has security cameras, and security cameras don’t lie.</p>
<p>During his rant, Alite described the Albanians not being loyal to him, but, sources within the Albanian community alleged that one of the reasons he was not welcome at the party was not just because he testified against alleged members of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/organized-crime-in" target="_blank">Italian organized crime</a>, but, because he is believed to be informing on members of Albanian organized crime in present day. In addition: Alite mentioned on The Mike Calta Show and in other appearances that he was a boxer, however, numerous sources who’ve known Alite for decades say they have no recollection of him ever <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Boxing" target="_blank">boxing</a> anyone. But, notice how at the end there he said he asked “Junior” — <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/interview-john-gotti-jr-sits-down-with-gangsters-inc" target="_blank">John A. Gotti</a> — to fight him in a celebrity boxing match? That’s true. On April 14, 2016, he <a href="http://johnalitefacts.com/boxing-challenge/" target="_blank">posted the challenge</a> on Facebook and Instagram and even said that if Gotti wouldn’t fight him he’d fight me instead.</p>
<p>But, after Gotti heard about it? He told me to send him the following message:</p>
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<p>“John Gotti wouldn’t wipe his ass with you. You had your chance to be tough 25 years ago when he slapped you and chased your crying ass out of Queens. He would never lower himself and make you more than the dog that you are. You’d blow a horse if it got someone to pay attention to you.”</p>
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<p>Which I did via email, and Alite replied just one minute later with the following statement:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237090858,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237090858?profile=original" width="520" /></a>“Don’t text me personally ever again this message will be turned over.”</p>
<p>To who? The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a>? Which is made all the more hilarious because two weeks later on a 5/1/2016 podcast Alite admitted that he actually would blow a horse if it got <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gotti" target="_blank">John Gotti</a> to fight him:</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x3QGLi-41RA?wmode=opaque" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
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<p>“I said, I said– Bring me the horse, because I’ll suck the horse’s cock to get him back in the ring with me. That’s what I said. I says, so, if you’ve got the horse, bring him over to me. That’s how bad I want to get him in the ring.”</p>
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<li><strong>Read more about that here: <a href="http://johnalitefacts.com/boxing-challenge/" target="_blank">John Alite’s All-Star Boxing Challenge</a>.</strong></li>
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<p>That was not the first time that John Alite got beat up or threatened someone with the FBI or 911, though.</p>
<p>According to multiple eyewitness sources, in early 2015 John Alite walked into a bar in Howard Beach, Queens and approached a local “tough guy.” He said that he heard he was “talking shit” about him and asked the tough guy to step outside. To which he accepted, but after walking outside, he spotted FBI Agents in a car down the block, shook his head, and just walked back inside.</p>
<p>Around the same time, one of Alite’s comrades who had been promoting his book across the internet and was going with Alite to his media appearances, but has since disappeared, signaling a falling out with Alite, like pretty much everyone who comes into his orbit has with him — this individual, who was telling people he was Alite’s cousin, was reportedly getting his nails done in a salon in Howard Beach and bragging about his cousin John Alite, the greatest guy in the world, to one of the workers, when a “tough kid” from the neighborhood overheard him, approached him, and: “bitch-slapped him, and walked out.”</p>
<p>However, several months ago JohnAliteFacts.com <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JohnAliteFacts/photos/a.825660487549876.1073741827.817694198346505/1144245902357998/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">reported on Facebook</a> that a source claimed on the night of September 24th, 2016 John Alite was acting like an obnoxious big shot at <a href="http://www.bestclambar.com/" target="_blank">Cuzin’s Clam Bar</a> in Marlboro, New Jersey when someone recognized who he was and approached him along the lines of: “You’re acting like a big tough guy, but aren’t you that rat?”</p>
<p>Words ensued, one thing lead to another and John Alite threw a punch… but, he got punched right back and a fight broke out. Alite’s friend got up to help him, but then the other guy’s friend intervened and knocked Alite’s friend out cold, and in the end, Alite got his hole broke, and when he came to? He threatened to come back with a bunch of guys… but, he was told it was over. To never come back and never speak about what happened.</p>
<p>Upon further investigation, however, a new story emerged:</p>
<p>That on September 24, 2016 Alite was having dinner with Gambino informants <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-capo-michael" target="_blank">Michael DiLeonardo</a> and Frank Fappiano at the nearby <a href="http://www.firesidegrillandbar.com/" target="_blank">Fireside Grill and Bar</a>, after which, Alite went to Cuzin’s which is just down the road to meet two people, a man and a woman.</p>
<p>But unfortunately for Alite, someone at Cuzin’s knew who he was, did not want him in the place, they got into a fight, and in the end? This individual beat the crap out of John Alite and threw him out.</p>
<p>If he would like to though, as has been stated over and over, John Alite has an open forum at JohnAliteFacts.com to give his side of things, at any time, unfiltered, just as Alite’s quote from The Mike Calta Show is posted above unfiltered. He can also address the claim by a source for JohnAliteFacts.com that after the beating by just one person at Sugardaddy’s he was telling people he was instead assaulted by “seven guys with guns,” which is slightly different than what he said on the radio, that “they showed up with 8 or 10 guys.”</p>
<p>But, last but not least? He can also address the claim that he was telling people he couldn’t come out of the water because people were “shooting bullets” around him into it.</p>
<p>When, again: security cameras don’t lie.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chris Kasparoza is a writer, director, and the author of the novel</strong></em> <strong>For Blood And Loyalty</strong><em><strong>. He is working on the project</strong></em> <strong>Witsec Mafia</strong> <em><strong>with John A. Gotti and Richard Stratton. This article will also be published at <a href="http://JohnAliteFacts.com/StripClub">http://JohnAliteFacts.com/StripClub</a></strong></em> <strong>You can connect with him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Kasparoza" target="_blank">@Kasparoza</a></strong></p>
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Convicted drug trafficker becomes head of South American country’s National Security Service
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<p>Suriname is officially being run by a bunch of narcotics traffickers. Today, the South American country <a href="http://www.starnieuws.com/index.php/welcome/index/nieuwsitem/33115" target="_blank">named</a> a former soldier who was sentenced to 8 years in prison for running an ecstasy laboratory as the new head of its national security and intelligence service.</p>
<p>Hans Jannasch was busted in 2003 after police in Suriname discovered his involvement in running an ecstasy lab in the nation’s capital Paramaribo. His lab was the largest of its kind ever found in the Caribbean and produced pills for the U.S. market.</p>
<p>Jannasch earned an early release from prison in 2010 and went straight to work as bodyguard for Suriname’s current president Desi Bouterse (photo above).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237047893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237047893?profile=original" width="322" /></a>Bouterse, meanwhile, can relate to Jannasch’s trouble with the law. He himself has been convicted in absentia of cocaine smuggling by a court in the Netherlands. His son Dino (photo right) is currently serving 16 years in an American prison after being busted by U.S. authorities for drug and gun trafficking.</p>
<p>We would like to think that all these men have learned from their past mistakes, but then again, we’re not naïve. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for Suriname. Will it become like Manuel Noriega’s Panama or will it fly under the radar?</p>
<p>Only time will tell.</p>
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