That year, Alite pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, including two murders and a variety of other crimes, and in 2011, was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison.
23 Facts About John Alite
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John Alite has estimated that he shot between 30 and 40 people, beat about 100 people with a baseball bat, and murdered seven people.
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Later in life, John Alite publicly denounced organized crime and became a motivational speaker, podcaster and author.
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John Alite was born on September 30,1962, in the Queens borough of New York City and grew up in Woodhaven, Queens.
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John Alite was Gotti's best man at his wedding in 1990.
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John Alite received a baseball scholarship to the University of Tampa, but dropped out after three years.
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John Alite was affiliated with the Gambino crime family but was ineligible to become a "made man" in the organization due to his non-Italian heritage.
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John Alite was a business partner of Gotti and was nicknamed "The Calculator" due to his financial acumen.
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On December 20,1988, John Alite lured cocaine dealer George Grosso to the White Horse Tavern in Queens, persuaded him to get into a car under the pretense of driving to another bar, and then shot him three times in the head.
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John Alite was dispatched to Atlantic City to search for DiBono but failed to locate the mobster, who was ultimately killed by Charles Carneglia in an underground parking lot at the World Trade Center later that year.
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John Alite was questioned by police over the November 1,1994, homicide of Carol Neulander in Cherry Hill.
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John Alite later led a crew in Tampa, Florida that extorted rival valet businesses, and reported to Gambino capo Ronald "Ronnie One-Arm" Trucchio.
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John Alite arranged for the purchase of Mirage, a Tampa nightclub.
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Later that year, John Alite was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm in violation of a parole agreement and spent three years in prison.
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John Alite lived there for 10 months before authorities arrested him in November 2004.
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John Alite served two years in prison in Brazil and was eventually extradited to federal authorities in Tampa, for trial in 2006.
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In January 2008, John Alite pleaded guilty to racketeering charges that included two murders, four murder conspiracies, at least eight shootings, and two attempted shootings as well as armed home invasions and armed robberies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, stemming from his alleged involvement in a Gambino crew in Tampa, Florida.
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John Alite agreed to testify in the trial of Gambino family enforcer Charles Carneglia, who was found guilty of four murders and is serving a life sentence.
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John Alite testified that Gotti was responsible for at least eight murders, among other crimes.
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In January 2012, he was released on a five-year supervised release; in October 2015, a letter was written to the US Probation Office claiming that John Alite broke the terms of his supervised release in a New Jersey gun case which prompted an investigation that sent John Alite back to prison for three months.
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John Alite later became a youth motivational speaker on avoiding crime.
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John Alite co-wrote four books, Gotti's Rules, Darkest Hour, Prison Rules, and Mafia International.
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In September 2021, John Alite was the subject of an episode of National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad.