John Gleeson

“Wiseguys, like all career criminals, are careful on the telephone to the point where they sound as if they're talking about a crime even when they're not.

"Did you see that guy?" Angelo Ruggiero would ask Gotti.
"What guy?"
"The guy from over there. The one we saw last week."
"The tall guy?"
"No, the other guy. The one with the fucking...the guy who had the union beef last year."
"The guy from 86th Street?"
"No, not that guy, the other one, who we saw with what's-his-name from Canarsie."

Every once in a while wiseguys ended up whacking the wrong guy. After all those hours listening to them I found myself wondering why that didn't happen more often.”
― John Gleeson, The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

“Louie Milito was killed because, as Gravano would put it, “he fucked with me; I had to get John Gotti’s permission and I got it.” Explaining why Gravano had convinced Gotti of Louie's “subversive” [talk] behind his back.”
― John Gleeson, The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster