Informant offers look inside mob

John Alite, formerly of Cherry Hill, is providing insight on individuals, including a hit victim. By George Anastasia Inquirer Staff Writer South Philadelphia mob associate John "Johnny Gongs" Casasanto was angling to join New York's Gambino crime family in 2002, but a bullet to the back of the head short-circuited that career move. None other than John Gotti Jr. backed Casasanto, 35, who hoped to get "straightened out" - formally initiated - after befriending the mob boss while they were inmates in a federal detention center in New York state, according to a key government witness. The Casasanto-Gotti connection has been described by mob informant John Alite, the prosecution's star witness in the ongoing racketeering trial of Gotti Jr. in federal court in New York City. Alite, 47, lived in Cherry Hill for several years... [read full story]                    

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