Talk about a get-out-of-jail-free card.
A defense witness for John “Junior” Gotti testified yesterday that an FBI agent offered to help spring him from the slammer in exchange for evidence against the mob scion.
Joseph O’Kane said Special Agent Ted Otto appeared unexpectedly last year at the Canaan federal pen in Waymart, Pa., where O’Kane is serving life plus 15 years for racketeering charges including murder.
O’Kane, 42, said the fed told him: “I understand you’re doing a life sentence and we want to give you a number,” meaning a reduced-sentence offer.
The admitted killer and drug dealer said, “I’d probably be home with my wife and family right now” if he’d coughed up information on the Gambino boss.
But O’Kane insisted he didn’t have any dirt, and never learned the details of Otto’s offer because “I told him to go ‘eff’ himself
A defense witness for John “Junior” Gotti testified yesterday that an FBI agent offered to help spring him from the slammer in exchange for evidence against the mob scion.
Joseph O’Kane said Special Agent Ted Otto appeared unexpectedly last year at the Canaan federal pen in Waymart, Pa., where O’Kane is serving life plus 15 years for racketeering charges including murder.
O’Kane, 42, said the fed told him: “I understand you’re doing a life sentence and we want to give you a number,” meaning a reduced-sentence offer.
The admitted killer and drug dealer said, “I’d probably be home with my wife and family right now” if he’d coughed up information on the Gambino boss.
But O’Kane insisted he didn’t have any dirt, and never learned the details of Otto’s offer because “I told him to go ‘eff’ himself
