John Gotti Jr.’s family rejects plea deals after basketball game brawl
John “Junior” Gotti’s wife and daughter rejected plea agreements that would have sent them to anger treatment to satisfy allegations that they started a brawl at a Long Island junior basketball tournament.
Kimberly Gotti, 55, and Gianna Gotti, 23, declined an offer to plead guilty to assault charges in return for 12 weeks of anger treatment and an order of protection for the victim, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
According to officials and court documents, the duo were accused with assaulting a lady at a Locust Valley High School game in Lattingtown on February 8 after the victim hurled comments at Kimberly’s son, Joe, who was playing for visiting Oyster Bay High School.
The woman experienced “substantial pain to her scalp and bruises to both sides of her face,” according to a lawsuit filed in Nassau County First District Court.
The Gottis’ attorney put the fight on the victim, telling The New York Post last month that she threw the initial punch and was “badgering” Kimberly’s younger son.
The lawyer, Gerard Michael Marrone, also denied that his client used a homophobic insult.
He stated after the event that Gianna, a professional basketball player who previously played for Brooklyn College before joining with a team in Portugal, intervened to break up the altercation and assist her mother after she was slugged in the face by the claimed victim.
However, he stated that both Gotti’s declined to seek charges against the lady when officers arrived.
“The Gotti’s don’t press charges,” Marrone stated after the couple was arrested last month.
Instead, they were arrested and prosecuted.
Marrone did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Kimberly Gotti is the daughter-in-law of late mafia leader “Dapper Don” John Gotti, who allegedly took over the Gambino crime family by ordering the mob assassination on boss Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House in 1985.
He died of throat cancer in federal prison.
Meanwhile, John “Junior” Gotti served a six-year and five-month sentence for racketeering.
Between 2004 and 2009, the towering Queens-bred mafia scion faced four federal trials, all of which resulted in mistrials. Federal prosecutors said that they will no longer pursue cases against him.
