Two grandsons of the late Gambino crime boss John “Teflon Don” Gotti were arrested for beating up an in-law during an old-school neighborhood street beatdown, officials said.
Brothers Frankie Gotti, 27, and John Gotti, 31, allegedly assaulted brother-in-law Gino Gabrielli for breaking into a Howard Beach home John Gotti shares with his wife, Eleanor Gabrielli, police said.
Eleanor is Gino’s sister, police sources said.
“(They) did the right thing,” Frankie Gotti’s attorney, Gerard Marrone, said of the dust up. “They were protecting their home and (Eleanor).”
Gino Gabrielli was caught on surveillance camera entering the 157th Ave. home through a window and swiping $3,300 in cash, a watch, a pair of earrings, and a belt and wallet that Eleanor kept in a jewelry box, prosecutors said.
He was arrested shortly after the Sunday afternoon break-in and still had all the stolen loot on him, police said. Cops charged him with burglary, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
He was released without bail on Monday and an order of protection was issued for Eleanor — but that didn’t protect Gino from the Gotti brothers, officials said.
Not satisfied with the arrest, the brothers tracked Gabrielli down to his mother’s house on 84th St. near 162nd Ave. in Howard Beach and administered a beatdown in front of Gabrielli ‘s mom about 3:10 p.m. Monday, according to police.
Cops responding to a 911 call about the street attack witnessed John and Frankie Gotti punching and kicking Gabrielli as he was sprawled out on the sidewalk.
The two brothers, the sons of Peter Gotti and nephew of former Gambino boss John Gotti, were arrested on misdemeanor assault charges.
They were released without bail after they were arraigned before Judge Sharifa Nasser-Cullar in Queens Criminal Court Tuesday evening and are scheduled to return to court Aug 7.
They said nothing as they left court.
Marrone noted the charges are misdemeanors and said Gabrielli’s wounds are minor.
“It was nothing,” he said. “It was just scrapes. (Gino) should have kept his hands up.”
In 2015, federal authorities said, Gabrielli accidentally set himself on fire while torching the Mercedes-Benz of a Queens businessman who had stopped making his annual payoffs to an irate mob captain involved in an extortion scheme.
The victim’s home security video system caught Gabrielli, first seen dousing the year-old car with an accelerant, fleeing the scene with his pants ablaze. Gabrielli pleaded guilty to the arson in August 2016.
In 2002, John Gotti, the Bronx-born tough who shot his way to the top of the Gambino crime family and became the most celebrated mobster since Al Capone, died at a Missouri prison hospital after a long battle with throat cancer at 61.
Gotti, who ruled the Gambino organization for seven years, was convicted in 1992 on the testimony of mob turncoat Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano.
He was serving a life term in solitary confinement at the maximum-security prison in Marion, Ill., when he was diagnosed with cancer in September 1998. Two years later, Gotti was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., where he died.
In 2017, John Gotti, the grandson, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to selling oxycodone pills in New York City.
At the time Marrone said his client’s name was a blessing and a curse.
“His last name is what his last name is and he’s always walking around with a target on his back,” Marrone said. “It’s a double-edge sword, I think sometimes the name is a cross [to bear], but sometimes I think it’s a blessing. They’re a beautiful family, they’re very supportive of him since Day One. They really stick together, the entire family.”
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