Monday, November 27, 2006

What Would Castellano Have Said About This Kind of Drug Trafficking?

Oftentimes we'll be driving along Jericho Turnpike in Huntington and notice what looks like a auto-wreck garage but with the name "Gotti Tans." And we're like, it can't be that Gotti.

Turns out, it is.

And it's owned by Frank "Gotti," whose real last name is Agnello, the 16-year-old grandson of mobster/Brioni-suit-wearing fashion icon/thief and murderer John Gotti. (We assume Frank figured "Agnello Tans," while more accurate, isn't as catchy a name.) The kid got pinched when the cops found drugs in his car. And by "drugs," we mean OxyContin tablets.

We think that more important than the drugs is the fact that he was driving two friends: one was 17, the other a juvenile. Drivers with a junior license ae not allowed to drive with more than two passengers under the age of 21 unless they are members of the immediate family. If we got caught doing that, Dad would have snatched the keys from our grubby mitts. (Frank's dad, Carmine, once referred to as a "moron" by his late father-in-law, is currently serving a racketeering sentence in prison.)

But the kid is doing a lot more than we did at age 16. Not only does he own a tanning salon, he's the author of a book called The Gotti Diet. And he got arrested!

Curiously, he was driving a 2006 Chrysler Pacifica. Which is like a glorified station wagon. Guess he's not so goomba after all.

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