John Alite

John Edward Alite also known as Johnny Alletto (born September 30, 1962), is a mobster and hitman of Albanian origin. An associate of the Gambino crime family and John A. Gotti in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, he fled in 2003 after learning he had been targeted for murder. He traveled to twenty countries in Europe and South America. While living in Brazil, he was served with an Interpol arrest warrant. He spent two years in Brazilian prisons and was extradited to the US in 2006. He was convicted on several counts of murder conspiracy and racketeering and was sentenced in 2011 to 10 years in prison. He was a prosecution witness against former associates, Gotti and Charles Carneglia.

He testified in court that he was introduced to organized crime when an uncle took him to a gambling den in The Bronx and was accompanied by a made man in the Gambino crime family. Alite grew up in Woodhaven, Queens and briefly attended the University of Tampa on a baseball scholarship and played on the university team, The Spartans but left after one semester following an injury. He married his wife Carol on February 14, 1989 in Hawaii. The witness to his wedding was John Gotti Jr. He divorced his wife Carol several years later. They have two children together, a son Jimmy and a daughter Chelsea. Alite also has two children with a common-law wife. In 2009 Carol complained while testifying in court that her ex-husband John owed her more than $30,000 in child support. This would end up not being true.

Alite and Gotti met in their teens and began engaging in criminal enterprises, according to federal prosecutors. Alite has testified that he and Gotti ran a cocaine trafficking ring in the Forest Hills section of Queens and extracted a tax from other dealers. By the 1990s, Alite says that the ring was earning $1 million a month. On February 14, 1988, Gotti was best man at Alite's wedding in Queens. The date was selected not because it was Valentine's Day, but as a sign of respect for Gotti because it was his birthday.

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