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Mob rat John Alite got beat up at a strip club
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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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Profile: Bonanno crime family acting boss Thomas Di Fiore
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/bonanno-family-acting-boss-thomas-di-fiore
2015-08-05T08:20:24.000Z
2015-08-05T08:20:24.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-family-acting-boss-thomas-di-fiore"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237036870,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237036870?profile=original" width="405" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Bittersweet. That’s the feeling Bonanno wiseguy Thomas Di Fiore (photo above) must have had when he was offered the position of acting boss of the Bonanno crime family while boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-family-boss-michael-mancuso">Michael Mancuso</a> is in prison. Sweet, because the position has its perks. Bitter, because as a boss you are a premier target for the FBI, and as boss of the Bonannos a very easy target at that.</p>
<p>Thomas Di Fiore, who goes by the uneventful nickname “Tommy D,” has a criminal history that dates back to 1966. He was arrested for crimes ranging from kidnapping in the second degree, serious assault charges, to promoting gambling in the first degree, and buying and receiving stolen property. In 1970, Di Fiore was convicted in New York state court of reckless endangerment in the second degree and received a sentence of conditional discharge.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/aftermath-of-a-hit-the-murder"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237037659,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237037659?profile=original" width="153" /></a>By that time, Di Fiore was a fulltime <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bonanno-crime-family">Bonanno Family</a> associate of the crew led by capo <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/aftermath-of-a-hit-the-murder">Philip “Phil Lucky” Giaccone</a>. During the 1970s and 1980s, Di Fiore was responsible for picking up thousands of dollars per month in protection money that various trucking companies based at JFK airport were paying the Bonanno family.</p>
<p>Di Fiore’s capo “Phil Lucky” Giaccone (right) was murdered in 1981 as part of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/aftermath-of-a-hit-the-murder">infamous power struggle</a> between a faction loyal to imprisoned boss Philip Rastelli and a faction comprised of Giaccone and two other captains. The plot played an integral part in the movie <a href="http://amzn.to/14yAt3w" target="_blank">Donnie Brasco</a>, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.</p>
<p>After Rastelli’s faction had cleaned house, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-boss-joseph-massino">Joseph Massino</a> emerged as the new power on the streets. He also became the man Di Fiore ultimately reported to. We know this because Massino would later become the first Mafia boss to cooperate with the FBI and testify against his former underlings.</p>
<p>Massino said that he sponsored Di Fiore for membership in the family and performed his induction ceremony in approximately 1985 or 1986.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-boss-joseph-massino"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9236994865,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9236994865?profile=original" /></a>In the mob the use of violence is common. It’s a tool of the trade. Yet under Massino the Bonanno family went underground, trying to make as little noise as possible in the hopes that law enforcement would ignore them. At that point, Massino was the only boss of one of the five New York Mafia families who wasn’t behind bars. He would’ve liked to keep it that way.</p>
<p>That’s probably why he told Di Fiore “No” when he asked permission to kill a couple of bouncers linked to the Lucchese crime family. According to Massino, somewhere between 1999 and 2000, Di Fiore’s son had received a beating from bouncers at a topless bar. Another member of the Bonanno family, on Di Fiore’s behalf, asked Massino for permission for Di Fiore to kill the bouncers in retaliation. But the boss refused to grant Di Fiore permission.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Massino told the Feds, Di Fiore had proposed his son for membership in the Bonanno family. He had denied the proposal. I guess getting involved in a fight at a topless bar is not something you put on your resume. Even when applying for a position in organized crime.</p>
<p>A year later, in 2001, Di Fiore was convicted of federal extortion and was sentenced to 29 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.</p>
<p>In the years that followed, the Bonannos were hit hard by indictments and turncoats. Dozens of mobsters and associates lined up to testify about crimes they committed with or on behalf of Bonanno gangsters. When Joe Massino flipped the game was officially over. It was only a matter of time. The FBI would be digging for evidence to corroborate the testimony of turncoats and bring indictments as soon as they could.</p>
<p>The uncertain times, the lack of trust, it all put a lot of pressure on the mobsters.</p>
<p>By 2012, Di Fiore was made acting boss and set in place a “ruling panel,” which could help settle disputes and run the family’s operations. Not everyone was happy to have Di Fiore as boss. Capo Vincent Asaro was caught on tape badmouthing his leader on more than one occasion. “Now we have a fuckin’ scumbag, the new boss. Cheap scumbag . . . Some scumbag from Long Island,” Asaro said of the man who actually had promoted him to the rank of captain.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-goodfellas-turned-in-by-former-boss-massino"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237030497,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237030497?profile=original" /></a>Asaro (right) was apparently pretty sour about Di Fiore’s supposed greed. Di Fiore was to get $4,000 from the first extortionate collection from an associate, but Asaro kept that money for himself. By June of 2013, when an additional $30,000 had been collected on the loan, Di Fiore took half of the proceeds, according to Asaro, and demanded another $2,000 from Asaro as payback for the $4,000.</p>
<p>In a recorded conversation with his cousin Asaro was absolutely flabbergasted about the situation. “I had a big fight with him the other day,” Asaro says. “We had $30,000 coming, he took $15,000 of it. I want to kill this motherfucker. We had $30,000 coming…me, Jackie and Jerry. All right? He says, well without us we wouldn’t have collected it. So we went for the money, gave me five, they gave him 15. He says, “You owe me two.” Forget about the four, I owed him another two. Alright? “I’m taking that two.” I said Tom, I ain’t got nothing, man. I said, you’re taking 15? “Yeah, without me,” he says, “you wouldn’t a got nothing.”</p>
<p>“He’s that type of guy?” Asaro’s cousin asks.</p>
<p>Asaro: “Oh he’s a cocksucker. Makes Joey Massino look like St. Anthony, motherfucker.”</p>
<p>Wow. Let’s hope for Asaro that Di Fiore doesn’t follow in ‘Saint’ Massino’s footsteps and testifies against him in court. It could add to his problems considerably.</p>
<p>Di Fiore, meanwhile, is caught up in the same case as Asaro. Last week, both men together with three other Bonanno <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-goodfellas-turned-in-by-former-boss-massino">mobsters were arrested</a> and charged with various counts of racketeering. Most of the charges, including one linked to the infamous <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bonanno-goodfellas-turned-in-by-former-boss-massino">1978 Lufthansa heist</a> immortalized in the movie Goodfellas, fall on Asaro’s plate. Asaro was close to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lucchese-associate-james-jimmy">“Jimmy the Gent” Burke</a>, the Lucchese associate played by Robert DeNiro in <a href="http://amzn.to/1hSEOnR" target="_blank">Goodfellas</a>, a relationship that is now, over thirty years later, costing him.</p>
<p>The only charges 70-year-old Tommy Di Fiore faces are two counts of racketeering. One being a count of extortionate collection of credit and another the count of conspiracy. For someone who is the current boss of the family the charges do not reflect his rank.</p>
<p>Standing before a judge on January 23, 2014, he pleaded not guilty. If no new charges are brought against Di Fiore his chances of getting back out on the streets in a short timespan are looking pretty good. But with turncoats everywhere it is no safe bet.</p>
<p>And when it comes to safe bets, the mob likes to control the odds as much as possible. No wonder then that Di Fiore eventually pleaded guilty to loansharking. On March 24, 2015, a judge sentenced him to 21 months in prison. This means that Di Fiore, now 71, will be back on the streets pretty soon. </p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Pretty soon indeed. Di Fiore was released from Fort Dix prison yesterday, August 4. He is now 72 years old.</p>
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Rap mogul Suge Knight shot six times at VMA party
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2014-08-25T07:45:33.000Z
2014-08-25T07:45:33.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rap-mogul-suge-knight-shot-six-times-at-vma-party"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237033085,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237033085?profile=original" width="520" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Some guys just attract violence. Case in point: rap mogul Suge Knight. This Sunday morning, Knight was attending a party celebrating this year’s MTV Video Music Awards when he was shot a reported six times by an unknown assailant.</p>
<p>The party at the <a href="http://1oakla.com/" target="_blank">10AK nightclub</a> in Los Angeles was held by singer Chris Brown, MTV told gossip site TMZ, and had no official link to the VMAs. Perhaps not. However, many of the people at the party did have some interesting links of their own.</p>
<p><a href="http://amzn.to/1tvsFMl" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237033492,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237033492?profile=original" width="300" /></a>Brown and Knight are both known affiliates of the Bloods crime gang. Knight has been repping the group publicly and out in the open for several decades now. Back in the 1990s, as CEO of Death Row Records Suge controlled rap superstars such as <a href="http://amzn.to/1lrgcby" target="_blank">Dr Dre</a>, <a href="http://amzn.to/1nsKUwg" target="_blank">Snoop Dogg</a>, and the legendary <a href="http://amzn.to/1qFp4GH" target="_blank">Tupac “2Pac” Shakur</a>. His Bloods background gave Knight's label and rappers instant street cred, but was also the cause of their downfall as violence became a daily occurrence.</p>
<p>On the night of September 6, 1996, Suge Knight was driving through Las Vegas with Shakur after they had just seen Mike Tyson beat Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand. As Knight stopped the car in front of a red light at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in front of the Maxim Hotel, another car drove by and multiple shots were fired at Shakur and Knight.</p>
<p>Knight was wounded but lived. Shakur died seven days later at age 25.</p>
<p>Now Knight is back in the hospital with more bullet holes. At age 49 he should seriously consider putting his massive 6 ft 4, 265 lb, frame in less dangerous situations. He isn’t exactly a hard target.</p>
<p>Though it is still unknown what precisely went down at club 10AK on the night of Saturday and early Sunday morning, TMZ <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/24/1oak-gunshots-video-shooting-oak-suge-knight/" target="_blank">posted a video</a> made inside the club on which five shots can be heard. Knight’s family claims he was hit six times.</p>
<p><a href="http://amzn.to/1lrfP0K" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237033685,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237033685?profile=original" width="366" /></a>Eyewitnesses told TMZ that “Brown (right) was throwing up gang signs before the shooting inside 1OAK early Sunday and he was performing with a red bandana -- the Bloods' moniker.” Several Bloods gangbangers were allegedly surrounding Brown at the time of the shooting.</p>
<p>After being shot, Knight walked out of the club and took cover behind a white Bentley. He was taken to the hospital after cops saw him. He is currently in the intensive care unit and expected to recover.</p>
<p>An hour-and-a-half before the shooting, rapper <a href="http://amzn.to/1tAmTbn" target="_blank">Game</a>, another famous Bloods gang member, was involved in a fight with the club’s bouncers after they wouldn’t let him and his friends in.</p>
<p>With three high-profile Bloods gang members at one location it is obvious police are investigating the gang link in hopes of solving this shooting. It is doubtful they will find many witnesses willing to testify, though, as the rap business has made it its goal to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Snitchin%27" target="_blank">campaign</a> against “snitching.”</p>
<p>Time in prison is one thing, apparently, but losing your street cred is a whole ‘nother deal.</p>
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