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The Teflon Don’s grandson, John Gotti, has been in custody since his Aug. 4 arrest on serious felony drug charges.
By Michael V. Cusenza
A Queens Supreme Court judge last week set bail for the allegedly prolific painkiller-peddling grandson of late La Cosa Nostra boss John Gotti at $2 million, according to City records and published reports.
John Gotti, 23, the son of Peter Gotti, has been locked up since Aug. 4, when a year-long undercover investigation spearheaded by the NYPD’s Narcotics Borough Queens South and the Queens District Attorney’s Narcotics Investigations Bureau culminated in the execution of six court-authorized search warrants – including at the Dapper Don’s New Howard Beach home, where his namesake was living with several other members of the Gotti clan; and at Rebel Ink Tattoo on Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park, which John Gotti co-owns.
According to the charges, Gotti was the main seller of a lucrative prescription pill-pushing organization and primarily sold Oxycodone pills in Howard Beach and Ozone Park for approximately $23 to $24 per tablet.
The comprehensive case, District Attorney Richard Brown said, utilized various investigative techniques, including physical surveillance, undercover buy operations, telephone wiretaps, and the installation of a listening device on an Infiniti G35 sedan when it was allegedly used by Gotti. Through the use of the monitoring device, authorities allegedly intercepted a conversation in which Gotti discussed his Oxycodone trafficking business in detail, allegedly stating that he sold more than 4,200 pills every month, that he did approximately $100,000 a month in drug sales, and that he once calculated that his illicit business generated approximately $1.6 million.
Additionally, during the course of the investigation, undercover officers allegedly purchased $46,080 worth of Oxycodone from Gotti during 11 undercover buys between April 22, and July 28. Out of the 11 buys, 10 were recorded on both video and audio, Brown noted.
Several published reports have indicated that Gotti has been in drug treatment since his arrest.
If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
