Gotti sought help from Aryan Brotherhood

Reuters ^ | March 15, 2006 | Dan Whitcomb

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Alongside allegations such as secret messages written in urine, the opening of the Aryan Brotherhood trial includes a charge that late Mafia boss John Gotti asked the prison gang to carry out a hit.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Emmick told jurors in one of the largest death penalty cases in the United States that Gotti sought out the Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the Brand, in July 1996 after he was beaten by a black inmate, Walter Johnson, at the U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Illinois,

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There are those who wish Gotti's murder plot had succeeded. Johnson was later released and killed a D.C. cop and is now serving life. Below is a Federal Bureau of Prisons photo of Gotti showing Walter Johnson's handiwork.

Dapper Don

[The Old Hoosier]

I hate Illinois Nazis.

[BackInBlack]

That's the greatest scene.

[theDentist]

Gee, and here I thought that Mafiosi didn't need to worry about intimidation in prisons from anyone but rival wiseguys. :\