Marrying Into the Mob? Only the Bride Knows
Reputed mobster John Gotti’s son is getting married Saturday, and the lucky woman is in the mob version of the federal witness protection program--no one is willing to identify her.
“We keep everything confidential,” said Maria DeCandia, who runs Hidden Assets, a lingerie store where the son, John A. Gotti, is known to shop.
“I have nothing to say. No dice,” said the pastor of Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church.
“I don’t know anything about a wedding. Didn’t hear about a wedding. Shows how stupid we are. We don’t even know about a wedding,” said the groom’s uncle, Pete Gotti.
These comments were harvested by the Daily News, which quoted sources as saying that a reception for 200 people was planned at the Helmsley Palace Hotel.
The elder Gotti himself answered queries with a cold stare as he entered his favorite haunt, the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club.
Law enforcement officials have alleged that the younger Gotti joined the mob last year. He is 26 and is said to be president of a Brooklyn trucking company. He has been arrested several times in bar fights.
His father, known as the Dapper Don, is reputedly head of the Gambino organization, which authorities say is the nation’s most powerful crime family.
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