NATION : Reputed Gangster Tells of Killing
A reputed gangster squealed to federal agents that the man who accidentally killed mob boss John Gotti’s 12-year-old son was later slain and dismembered, officials testified.
The account of the murder of John Favara in 1980 was allegedly described by reputed Bonnano crime family capo Thomas (Tommy Karate) Pitera just after his arrest last June on murder and drug charges in Brooklyn.
Assistant U.S. Atty. David Shapiro, at a hearing Thursday to suppress the alleged admission, said Pitera fingered Gotti aide Wilfred (Willie Boy) Johnson--a former FBI informant--as Favara’s killer.
“Remember the guy who ran over Gotti’s son? Willie Boy did that--cut him up in three pieces,” Pitera allegedly told Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
Frank Gotti was run over by Favara on March 18, 1980, about six blocks from his home in Queens. The boy, riding a minibike, darted out from behind a dumpster, police said at the time, and the death was ruled an accident.
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