Mob Still Has Contract Out on Him: ‘Jimmy the Weasel’

Mob informer Aladena (Jimmy The Weasel) Fratianno, his federal protection money cut off, said today that he wants to leave the United States because the mob still has a contract on him.

Fratianno, who recently testified in the New York trial of Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno and 12 other reputed mobsters, said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that there “absolutely” is still a mob contract out on him.

The one-time underworld killer said he hopes that his book, “Vengeance Is Mine,” will sell enough to allow him to flee, now that he has lost the tax-paid income he had for nine years in the government’s witness protection program.

“If the book sells . . . then I’ll have some money and I can go someplace . . . leave the country. That’s what I want to do . . . and hope and pray nobody finds me” because “they don’t forget.”

Fratianno, 74, collected $951,326 in the program before the Justice Department ended the payments last Friday. He will continue to receive protection as needed to keep secret his government-furnished new identity.

“There should be some exceptions,” protested Fratianno, whose appearance was blacked out during the interview. “No other human has ever done what I did: I sent six, seven bosses to jail (and) 35 other guys.”

He also said he does not recommend the witness protection program to others thinking about cooperating with law enforcement officials.

“I would advise anybody to think twice before they go on this program, because after they’re through using you they throw you out in the street,” Fratianno said. “They don’t care.

“After I got out of prison, I went in with my wife,” but “(the mob) found out where I was at; and I had a very close call,” in Boise, Ida. “They found me, and I spotted them and I left.”