I read that he is running the show down there and reviving the family since his release from prison in 2005.

Thoughts?

cmon...that sounds ridiculous

Not according to Wikipedia.

Don't buy anything you read on wikipedia pal. A lot the shit posted there is wrong.

They tried to move his last trial down there from NY. The Gambinos still have a lot of activity there and some of the charges in Junior's case involved the Florida rackets. But Junior wasn't ever specifically running things there.

Snickers......wikipedia????


Junior is out of the mob, one of only a few mobsters could do that, with his last name and who his uncles are and dad was, It's a lot easier for him to leave the life than just about any other wiseguy. He did kind of take over Tampa for a bit during that time, but no mas.

Who IS running things for the Gambinos in Florida with Vinny Atuso and Alphonce Truccio both away?

well Nicky Skins went down there to meet with Merlino, do we know if he met anyone else down there? maybe a clue...also Corrozzo was down there a bit...who is running his crew?

Snickers, i didnt mean to be rude but if youre running a crew in florida you typically dont go on 60 Minutes and do interviews with Playboy and such...he is done and i dont see him ever coming back...he can live the rest of his life just off his real estate and most likely has a ton of cash hidden.

You mean he never lived up to his dream of writing children's books like he told the court he wanted to do after he was released ??

Since florida is considered open territory for the 5 families, do the crews from each family operate in the same city or are they spread out in different cities in florida?

Really hope Junior straightens his life out completely, now that he's been out of the mob for over a year. Hope he becomes closer to God (not purposely trying to disrespect the liberals or atheists here) now that he's out of the life and has a chance to commit to an honest relationship with the Lord and live mostly without venial sins and especially mortal sins. After seeing him in all those interviews he sounds like a very smart guy. He didn't really have too many great choices with the dad he had and many other family members he had in his life. He made a lot of really awful choices in his life that were very evil, one was when he was at the bar and stabbed a guy at 19 or 20 and then made fun of him, which was probably the worst if not one of the worst things he did.

Ivy League once quoted me by saying, "There's no good mobsters." I kind of thought for the longest that there were a few like Joe B and Angelo Bruno, but even they weren't even though they were more conservative and less violent than the rest. Ivy is right!

I don't know, but I always assumed ALL of them that had the resources operated in South Florida which most consider from West Palm Beach to Miami. A lot of mob activity in the old days was north of Miami like Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale. Are any of them active in Tampa?

Tampa as far as the homegrown family is dead, but there are about 8-9 made guys but very old. Half are active I'd say, but not an organized crime family of LCN anymore or a criminal group recognized by the FBI or even their local law enforcement.

Jimmy Dellaratta was acting captain of the crew but was indicted recently.

So, regardless of the idea of him running things in Tampa (unlikely ), is he active or has he stuck to his promise of leaving the life?

all five families have extensive operations going on in the south florida/miami area, but the gambino's seem to be the only one's with anything going on in and around tampa, and i've heard that they work with the remnants of the trafficante's down there. as far as jr gotti is concerned, i believe that its mutually beneficial for him not to be involved in the life anymore, as at this point he wouldn't do much else besides bring too much attention to things.

Yeah, he isn't doing anything with cosa nostra. He would bring way too much attention to anything he touched, and other guys know that too.

no way he is active

The mob wants nothing to do with him, he could never be involved again..he is out with his life and plenty of cash. he got and pass..it does not mean he will stay clean..just not mob involved. he ratted..

I agree with the majority of you I don't think Junior is active anymore, but I've always wondered if his still has any clout or what the family would classify him as after all there's still a few Gotti's left in the borgata

Is Baby Huey still living in Oyster Bay? In the same huge house he's been claiming that he can't afford and said he was trying to sell for like the last 6 or so years? Has he declared bankruptcy?

I have no idea if he's active or not but he has money coming in from somewhere and it's not from Mark Fiore and that bullshit movie on his father that will never get made.

Has any recent rat ever said Junior was officially shelved by the Gambino's?

They should of hit that half a rat after he sat down with the feds in that proffer session back in 05. Maybe he didn't go through with ratting but he sure as shit was thinking about it.

the only gotti that has anything to say is gene, that is only when he comes home..the gambinos are counting the days until he gets out, and not to welcome him home.. he age will not matter..and that is funny ,.baby huey..you must know him giancarlo...

Nah, not me. I read thats what Nick Corozzo used to call him and thought it was pretty funny.

Anybody else remember reading that the genovese family wouldn't even sit down with gotti jr. ?? He wasn't respected..i doubt he's running anything !!!

dilorenzo, do you mean before or after his cases?

before !!

The article said he lost all sitdowns,and the genovese family refused to even sit down with him !!

Wikipedia says that about the genovese family and gotti jr and cites Selwyn Raab.

not true, that not how it works,

domino, barney and if i remember from testimony i read ida sat with him .about big bobby.

You would be surprised at the number of guys (from all 5 families) who have had proffer sessions with the govt and ultimately dont wind up cooperating.