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John A. Gotti (born 1964) is an American mobster and is the son of John Gotti. He is better known as Junior Gotti.

Career

John A. Gotti was born in 1964 to John and Victoria (née DiGiorgio) Gotti. He had two brothers, Frankie (killed in an accident in 1980) and Peter. He also has two sisters, Victoria and Angela. He is normally called Junior Gotti since he has his father's first name even though they have different middle initials.

Junior started bodybuilding in high school and started hanging out with his father's Mafia connections in the Gambino crime family. His father, who had become boss, made Junior in December 1988. He was promoted to Capo in 1990. He also married Kim Albanese in 1990.

He has been the acting boss at various times between 1992 and 1999, but he does not have the ruthlessness his father had to run the family the way they wanted it run. He has claimed in court to have retired from the Mafia in 1999, in furtherance of a statue of limitations defense.

In 1999, he was sentenced to 6 years for racketeering. In 2004, he claimed that when he was released, he wanted out of the Mafia business for good and wanted to take his family to Canada. He is bitter against his uncle, Peter Gotti, whom he claims turned his back on him and his father while they were in prison. He has considerable bitterness toward Carmine Agnello for cheating on his sister Victoria too.

On September 20, 2005, another racketeering trial against Gotti was declared a mistrial after the jury announced it was hopelessly deadlocked. The charges in the case included an allegation of a plot to kidnap Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels crime-fighting group. Gotti faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted of the multiple racketeering charges.The trial continued on February 13, 2006. On March 10, 2006 a mistrial was declared after the jury announced it was hopelessly deadlocked on the charges.

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