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FAMILY KILLER – WISEGUY SHOT KIN ON MOB ORDERS

An underworld turncoat testified yesterday he put loyalty to the Bonanno crime family above his ties to blood relatives – and he proved it by killing a cousin who allowed an FBI agent to penetrate the mob.

Joseph D’Amico told a Brooklyn federal jury how he became a soldier in the Bonanno family and even had John Gotti as a guest at his wedding.

He recalled his induction into the Bonanno family in 1977 at a ceremony attended by an underboss and several capos in the kitchen of an Elizabeth Street apartment in Manhattan.

“Would you leave your own family and protect someone in this family first?” one of the mobsters asked him, D’Amico recalled.

“I said yes,” D’Amico testified.

Later in the ceremony, he said, “They told me I was baptized again and this was my family.”

His loyalty was tested five years later when the family discovered they had been infiltrated by FBI agent Joseph Pistone, posing as “Donnie Brasco.”

Pistone’s story became the basis for the movie “Donnie Brasco,” starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.

D’Amico said the mob knew it was his cousin Anthony Mirra who had allowed Pistone into their inner circle.

“Mirra was responsible for first bringing him around the Bonanno crime family,” D’Amico, 48, testified.

Mirra was found shot to death in his car in a Manhattan parking garage on Feb. 18, 1982.

D’Amico, who was close to his cousin, said he was the shooter. His testimony was interrupted before he could give details of the killing.

D’Amico, who worked in The Post’s delivery department from 1980 until he turned himself in to the feds in 2003, is the fourth mob turncoat to take the stand against Bonanno boss Joseph Massino.

Massino, 61, is charged with racketeering, murder, extortion and money laundering. He faces life in prison if convicted.

Earlier in the trial D’Amico’s cousin Richard Cantarella testified Massino gave the order to whack Mirra.

Cantarella testified he and another mobster drove the getaway car.

D’Amico made his debut in court yesterday dressed in gray suit, white shirt and rose-colored tie.

He said that after “Brasco” was revealed as a government mole, Mirra “felt he was in jeopardy.

“He wouldn’t meet with other members of the Bonanno crime family. He was kind of jumping from house to house.”

D’Amico was close to Massino – attending the wedding of one of his daughters – and was acting capo for one period.