Daily News Crime File
John Marzulli

Federal prosecutors called former Gambino crime boss John A. (Junior) Gotti a "co-conspirator" in the slaying of a Bonnie and Clyde-like team that was robbing Mafia social clubs.

Gotti has never been charged with ordering the Christmas Eve 1992 killings of Thomas and Rosemarie Uva, and the government asserted only in court papers that he had "after-the-fact knowledge and endorsement" of their deaths.

But as jury selection got underway yesterday in the trial of reputed Gambino soldier Dominick (Skinny Dom) Pizzonia, prosecutors filed a letter describing Gotti as "a co-conspirator." Pizzonia is charged with rubbing out the couple on a Queens street.

The prosecutors also revealed that cooperating witness Anthony Ruggiano will testify that Gambino capo Nicholas Corozzo, who is not charged in the murders, told Ruggiano that a member of the Uva hit team was being proposed for membership in the crime family ahead of him.

Gotti's attorney Charles Carnesi denied Gotti had anything to do with the hits. "He was unaware of it at the time and he was not a participant," Carnesi said.

Another Mafia rat is expected to testify that Gotti told then-Bonanno crime boss Joseph Massino, "We took care of it," referring to the Uva murders

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How can they name him as a co-conspirator but not charge him?


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Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.