The star witness against John “Junior” Gotti told a jury yesterday how he himself lived the good life as a goodfella — spinning a tale right out of Martin Scorsese’s movie masterpiece about mobsters.
“When I went to restaurants, I didn’t wait. When I went to shows, I got the best seats,” mob turncoat John Alite said during the first day of testimony in Manhattan federal court.
“When we went to stores, we got suits custom-made. We got treated like celebrities.”
“Was it something you enjoyed?” asked prosecutor James Trezevant.
“Loved it,” Alite replied.
His testimony could have been taken from the script of “GoodFellas,” where Ray Liotta, playing Henry Hill, brags, “People looked at me differently and they knew I was somebody. I didn’t have to wait in line at the bakery. . . . No matter how many people were waiting . . . I was taken care of first.”
Alite, 46, on the stand for the fourth replay of Gotti’s racketeering trial, said he joined Junior’s crew in 1984 and reported to him for 10 years.
He said he would show up at the crew’s headquarters in Queens “as if I was somebody going to work for Merrill Lynch every day.”
“When I got to know him [Junior], it was a big thing,” he said. “People would treat us a lot differently.”
Alite said the crimes in which he was involved pulled in $50 million to $75 million for the Gambino family.
He said he kept $10 million for himself and gave Junior $6 million or $7 million. He was supposed to give Junior $10 million, but ripped him off.
The mob turncoat said he used his money to buy property, businesses and stocks. He had “a ton of cars,” 24 of them, and “the best of everything” — suits, Bruno Magli shoes at $500 a pair, Rolex watches and diamonds.
Alite said Junior told him he bought gold bars, a trucking company, a weekend home in the Poconos and a home in Massapequa, LI, paying $750,000 in cash to have it renovated.
He recalled once being in a mob apartment at East 58th Street and Second Avenue when John Gotti Sr. entered. Another wiseguy ordered him to count out $100,000 and give it to the Dapper Don. He did so.
Alite said $600,000 in drug proceeds was kept in the apartment.
He also implicated Junior in numerous crimes, including the murders of Louis DiBono — who failed to show up for a meeting with Gotti Sr. — and drug dealers George Grosso and Bruce John Gotterup.
He said his relationship with Junior soured in 1994, but he couldn’t leave the crew.
“It’s not the Boy Scouts. We can’t say we don’t like it no more and call your mother. There’s no quitting,” said Alite, who said he and Junior once lost $50,000 in a Vegas gambling spree.
In the courtroom were Victoria Gotti, the widow of Dapper Don John Gotti, and her daughters Victoria, author of “This Family of Mine,” and Angel.
They erupted in laughter when Alite described how much money he made, but otherwise they glared at him, especially Junior’s sister Victoria. Alite testified at a trial last February that he’d had an affair with her.