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# Mafia 'rat' planned to kill John Gotti
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## A self-confessed Mafia 'rat' has testified that he once planned to kill
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John Gotti Jr.
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![Mafia 'rat' planned to kill John Gotti ][1]
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John Junior Gotti, left, and Charles Carneglia Photo: AP
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By Our Foreign Staff 3:13PM GMT 26 Feb 2009
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John Alite, who has accused his former best friend of involvement in the drugs
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trade and in several murders, told a federal court in Brooklyn that he
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intended to kill the alleged Mob boss because he believed he had gone "soft".
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He broke the Mafia's code of silence ahead of giving full testimony in Mr
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Gotti's trial later this year. The alleged head of New York's Gambino crime
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family has pleaded not guilty to murder charges and cocaine trafficking
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Mr Alite, has admitted he is a "rat" for agreeing to participate in the trial,
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claims to have become friends with Mr Gotti after sharing profits with him
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from the drugs trade in the 1980s. But his Albanian origins and lacking
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Sicilian blood meant that he could never rise up the ranks to become a "made
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man".
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He claimed that when he was refused permission to kill Mr Gotti's brother in
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law for beating up his wife - with whom Mr Alite had a relationship - he
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decided to kill Mr Gotti instead.
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"I didn't trust his leadership," said Mr Alite said. "I thought he was weak -
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soft."
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He then plotted with Charles Carneglia, an alleged hit man now on trial for
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murder, to kill the alleged mob boss.
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In 1995, Mr Carneglia is alleged to have given Mr Alite a machinegun and told
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him to "take care" of Mr Gotti. But the hit was later cancelled.
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Mr Alite's evidence was given during an appearance as a prosecution witness at
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Mr Carneglia's murder trial, which is separate to Mr Gotti's.
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