New York — The jury at John A. (Junior) Gotti's racketeering trial on Monday saw the secret 1996 jailhouse video in which his father threatens to harm former New York Daily News mob columnist Jerry Capeci.
On the video recorded at the federal prison in Marion, Ill., John Gotti says of Capeci, "If I was home I'd throw him off a ... building. ... I mean that's the only thing they understand."
"Well, maybe he'll understand it when it's his personal life," Junior says in response.
Prosecutors won permission to introduce the tape after arguing that it showed the Gotti family's preoccupation with the press and that when they got bad press, they lashed out.
Junior Gotti is on trial in Manhattan Federal Court for allegedly masterminding a 1992 attack on Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa for bad-mouthing his father on the radio.
Sliwa testified last week that he was shot several times after he had criticized Gotti as a lowlife and a drug dealer.
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