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A New Jersey assembly member, who antecedently admitted to respective murders arsenic a mob enforcer, was arrested for extortion amid different charges connected Friday.
John Alite, 63, a councilman successful Englishtown, NJ, was charged Friday with aggregate counts of extortion, firm misconduct and different charges, New Jersey's Attorney General said successful a quality release.
Officials allege Alite made loans extracurricular of the maximum ineligible complaint and past threatened the debtors with convulsive acts if they didn't manus implicit wealth and property. Prosecutors allege Alite besides utilized his business, Straightened-Out Entertainment, Inc., to beforehand the scheme.
Former Gambino mobster and authorities informant John Alite poses connected a Queens thoroughfare successful 2013.
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"These arrests are the effect of rigorous investigative enactment and the beardown practice betwixt the Division of Criminal Justice and New Jersey State Police, who enactment tirelessly each time successful the pursuit of justice," said Attorney General Jennifer Davenport. "Our bureau is dedicated to ensuring that each businesses behaviour themselves reasonably and lawfully. The behaviour alleged successful this lawsuit was thing but, and we volition enactment to clasp those who cheat and bargain accountable."
An Albanian-American from Queens, Alite has agelong had ties to organized crime, arsenic the apical enforcer for the infamous Gotti transgression household and a longtime subordinate of the Gambino family.
In 2015, he spoke to CBS News successful an interrogation astir his earlier determination to permission the mob. He claimed to person committed 15 murders, changeable 30 to 40 radical and beaten much than 1 100 others with pipes and shot bats.
He described 1 organized hit, saying then, "While we were successful the conversation, I changeable him 2 oregon 3 times successful the head, past spit connected him. It was nothing, similar going to a shot game, I went retired (afterward) for a cheeseburger, treble cheese, Coke and fries."
Alite served much than 14 years successful situation successful the United States and Brazil, and aft being released, helium repudiated his mob ties. He went connected to motorboat a fashionable podcast called "Catch Me On The Run," wherever helium revealed details astir his years with the mob and moving from the feds.
He wrote oregon appeared successful galore books arsenic good arsenic respective documentaries. Alite was appointed to the assembly by Englishtown's mayor, Daniel Francisco, successful May 2025. He told the Guardian he wanted to tally to assistance the assemblage aft his girl died from a fentanyl overdose.
"Plus, I'm not a transgression immoderate more," helium said astatine the time. "I'm connected a ngo to bash things the close way."
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