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John Gotti Neighbor Was Dissolved in Acid, Court Papers Reveal
www.foxnews.com ^ | 01-09-09 | Staff

Posted on 01/12/2009 11:50:20 AM PST by Red Badger

NEW YORK — It is perhaps the most intriguing unsolved mystery from the gaudy gangland career of John Gotti: Whatever happened to the neighbor who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son — and then vanished?

According to papers filed this week in Brooklyn federal court, John Favara was shot to death on orders of the outraged Gambino crime family chief and his body was dissolved in a barrel of acid. Authorities said a cooperating witness identified Charles Carneglia, a 62-year-old former mobster, as the perpetrator in the 1980 incident.

The court documents said Carneglia told another informant that acid was "the best method to use to avoid detection."

Those details, in a 44-page evidence motion by federal prosecutors for a racketeering trial, offered a new twist on the fate of Favara, a 51-year-old furniture warehouse worker who lived near the Gottis in the Howard Beach section of Queens.

Favara was arriving home from work on March 18, 1980, when Gotti's son Frank, riding a minibike, darted in front of his car. The driver told police he was momentarily blinded by the sun and did not see the boy.

The crash was ruled an accident by police, but Favara was subjected to death threats and harassment for months. His car was stolen and later smeared with the word "murderer," and he was threatened by Gotti's bat-wielding wife when he tried to apologize.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gambino; gotti; lacosanostra; mafia
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1 posted on 01/12/2009 11:50:21 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The Sopranos did their body disposing Old School, the meat cleaver.


2 posted on 01/12/2009 11:54:13 AM PST by AU72
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To: Red Badger
And the neighbor didn't move and change his name?
3 posted on 01/12/2009 11:54:53 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Red Badger

So, a guy’s just walking down the street, minding his own business when - WHAM! - he trips and falls into a vat of acid.

It could happen, it could happen...


4 posted on 01/12/2009 11:56:40 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Red Badger

It was just a harmless college prank....


5 posted on 01/12/2009 11:57:13 AM PST by llevrok (Feral Conservative)
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To: Red Badger

The whole Gotti family should be dissolved in acid.


6 posted on 01/12/2009 11:58:05 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: randog

Look, this is Vinney’s watch...he’d want you to have it.


7 posted on 01/12/2009 11:58:29 AM PST by 50sDad (WARNING: This thread may result in several billion posts.)
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To: TexasCajun

as a blue collar worker, he probably didn’t have the wherewithal to disappear and start a new life with a new identity.


8 posted on 01/12/2009 11:58:36 AM PST by kms61
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To: TexasCajun

That seems to have been the problem. Gotti was tired of looking at the guy more than anything. Gotti saw his unwillingness to be afraid as “disrespect”.


9 posted on 01/12/2009 11:58:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Red Badger

Do any chemists out there know if this is even possible? I mean can a “barrel” of acid (55 gal) really dissolve an entire human corpse?


10 posted on 01/12/2009 11:59:03 AM PST by Pessimist
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To: TexasCajun

Fuhgeddaboudit......


11 posted on 01/12/2009 11:59:11 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Pessimist

Yes, it is possible, teeth and all................


12 posted on 01/12/2009 11:59:45 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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Gee. You’d think the home owner’s association would be upset at the Gotti’s for keeping all that acid in the garage or something.


13 posted on 01/12/2009 12:00:49 PM PST by llevrok (Feral Conservative)
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To: ozzymandus

They should all be whacked...............


14 posted on 01/12/2009 12:01:10 PM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Pessimist

a barrel of nearly anything liquid will dissolve body parts given enough time... lye is pretty good at that.


15 posted on 01/12/2009 12:03:17 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: AU72

And then they fed the sausage to Polish people and pre-game tailgaters!


16 posted on 01/12/2009 12:03:56 PM PST by montomike (Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
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To: Pessimist
Do any chemists out there know if this is even possible?

I don't any chemists in FR. But my college room mate knew a bit about acid cough, cough

17 posted on 01/12/2009 12:04:34 PM PST by llevrok (Feral Conservative)
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To: Red Badger

And NY guidos cried for Gotti when a photo of him ill with cancer appeared in the NY Daily News. The wrote letters to the editor lambasting their “cruelty”. I guess dissolving someone is a vat of acid is okay in their books.


18 posted on 01/12/2009 12:07:25 PM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
a barrel of nearly anything liquid will dissolve body parts given enough time

After the Battle of Trafalger, where he was killed by a sniper, Lord Nelson was placed in a barrel of cognac to preserve his remains on the voyage back to Blighty.

19 posted on 01/12/2009 12:08:07 PM PST by llevrok (Feral Conservative)
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To: Red Badger

That is a hard-luck story if I ever heard one.


20 posted on 01/12/2009 12:08:17 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 49 days away from outliving John F. Kennedy)
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