A little more tea
Mob Betrayal: Did My Father Break the Code?
Karen Gravano
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Watch Karen Gravano with Ellie G in this short excerpt from High Tea With Ellie G. Read the automatic transcript below or continue to the full episode.
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I've watched interviews with you and stuff and um my understanding is the mob hate the government right So then if you hate the government and the government are the enemy why did your father then go work with the government My father was arrested and um John Gotti was his co-defendant Um there were tapes and John Gotti was caught on multiple tapes incriminating my father in murder racketeering everything So my father now they're facing life- Mm on account of like And and I wanna always state this So why couldn't John Gotti just get shot then or killed So it was a lot and you know one thing my father And I I wasn't on board and still to this day my question is like you said why didn't he just kill him But in that lifestyle that's what it was and when he found out on those tapes that John was betraying him a gangster should've killed him right Right he should've but they were in prison and my father was like "Honestly at that point I just broke." Like he's he's told me after But like your dad sort of broke the code then So it took me years and years and years to understand that yes my father did break that code and I don't know if I agree 100% with the cooperation Now you have to take the fall." So who's really the rat They they assassinated the biggest boss of bosses and they were in it together and I think they both took down the mob





