Aug 6, 2008 6:28 am US/Eastern
Victoria Gotti Defends Junior After Arrest
Reputed Mobster's Sister Says Government Has Vendetta Against Her Family
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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John "Junior" Gotti was arrested Tuesday morning for his alleged role in a drug smuggling ring and 3 prior murders.
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John Gotti, Sr., convicted mob boss, shown Jan. 20, 1990.
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Victoria Gotti was very candid in her exclusive interview with CBS 2 HD's Pablo Guzman.
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Just hours after John "Junior" Gotti was indicted on charges linking him to cocaine trafficking and three slayings, Victoria Gotti is now coming to her brother's defense, speaking only to CBS 2. She says the government is not just after her brother, but her entire family, and especially her father, despite his passing.
"It's obvious. If they could take my father out of the grave, and retry him and win again and again, they would," she said.
Once again, Victoria has to stand up for her brother, on the verge of yet another trial. Only this time, John A. Gotti will be tried for murder. Three murders, the government says. Two of the dead the feds say were allegedly part of drug deals with Gotti that go back 17 years ago.
But a third, Louis Di Bono, was an associate of Gotti's father.
"What you have here is you have the Gambino crime family reaching out to Tampa, Florida, so you have a number of New York related gangsters and mobsters coming down to the Tampa area, and this indictment relates to their trying to get a foothold here," said Robert O'Neill of the U.S. Attorney's Office.
But Victoria Gotti says there's more to the story than meets the eye.
"I don't know, I feel like saying, you know, it's this vendetta, but I'm so tired of hearing it myself from other people that you try to convince yourself its not, and you try to convince yourself these are supposed to be the good guys and it's just not working for me," she said.
"If they were to come back at him, they would look like absolute fools," she said.
Victoria Gotti also said about the witnesses against her brother, like Mikey "Scars" DiLeonardo and Sammy Gravano, if they know so much, then what they were doing back then?
With charges as serious as murder, it wouldn't be surprising to find out that someone was wearing a wire and that there are tapes.
To watch more of Victoria Gotti's interview with Pablo Guzman,
click here.
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