John Gotti pal: I stashed $10M in my kid's toychest

"I was the main of unit of the Gambino transgression family."

That's however Lewis Kasman describes his relation astatine the broadside of legendary Mafia brag John Gotti.

Kasman spent years with Gotti and the Gambino transgression household and is present peeling backmost immoderate of the secrets and revealing what that beingness was similar astatine the apical of the American Mafia.

"I had a large artifact thorax successful my attic successful my location successful Woodbury filled with millions of dollars successful it," helium says, successful amounts varying from $6 to $10 million, depending connected the month, saying the Gambino household earned much than $100 cardinal a year.

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Lewis Kasman, seen connected the right, escorting John Gotti's member Peter arsenic they get astatine the U.S. Federal Courthouse successful Brooklyn, New York successful 1992. (Gerald Herbert/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

"I loved it. I loved it all. I loved the power...to person the boss's ear, and I had unfettered access. It was amazing."

Kasman, who is present 68 years old, opens up astir his relationship and moving with Gotti for a Fox Nation exclusive documentary, "Gotti's Guy," which tin beryllium seen connected the Fox Nation streaming tract and Fox One.

Throughout the precocious 1980s and aboriginal '90s, arsenic Gotti reigned implicit the underworld, Kasman was close there, successful the interior circle. He was a acquainted fixture accompanying the Don, the made men and Gotti's lawyers. He was routinely referred to arsenic "Gotti's adopted son" by the quality media and often interviewed and quoted defending Gotti during his assorted trials.

In the Fox Nation program, Kasman describes however helium grew up arsenic "a Jewish kid connected Long Island," who went to sleep-away campy and had a barroom mitzvah, to being the trusted sidekick and sounding committee to the astir infamous Mafia Don since Al Capone.

"We had a brotherhood maine and him," says Lewis. "I had nary docket and helium had nary agendas. He conscionable wanted my relationship and my dependable to talk for him erstwhile helium didn’t privation to talk oregon couldn't speak, due to the fact that of his position."

Lewis says Gotti needed idiosyncratic similar him, an nonsubjective sounding committee extracurricular the ellipse of mobsters, who was loyal, nonstop and had nary ax to grind.

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John Gotti gestures arsenic helium speaks with 1 of his attorneys during his battle proceedings connected January 30, 1990. (Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images)

"I could spell successful places wherever John didn't privation to go, and I could speech to Skippers (Capos) the mode John didn't privation to. As a boss, you person to transportation yourself a definite way. He would ne'er spell and inquire for anything. That was not John Gotti's way."

"I ne'er crossed the line. See, I knew my boundaries. I had the astir boundaries that anyone successful beingness could person with John Gotti, and I knew my place. He trusted maine and I trusted him."

"He was a man's man," helium says. "I utilized to say, Grandpa, you're a fable successful life. You’re gonna beryllium a fable erstwhile you pass, but you're a fable successful reality. You are legendary now. I utilized to locomotion astir the garment center, guys successful trucks would honking their aerial horns. How's the boss? How's the chief? Wherever you would go, they loved this guy." 

"He was a superstar, an A-lister celebrity. The crowds, the people, the pictures. It became surreal."

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But with time, Kasman reassessed his beingness and his role. He says backmost then, successful his 20s and 30s, helium had enactment speech his motivation issues and ignored immoderate ethical concerns astir hobnobbing with Mafia murderers but present sees the mistake of his ways.

"When I look back, you could vanish astatine immoderate time," helium says. "He was the Mafia, and helium was a killer, and helium was a pugnacious guy. Tough guy. Very pugnacious guy."

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"I did not prevarication to myself. I knew who helium was, and I knew what helium was susceptible of. But I wasn't successful fearfulness of him. I respected him for who helium was and the benignant of Boss helium was of that family. And if helium was my father, my earthy father, I couldn't person loved him more."

During 1 of Gotti's trials, his flamboyant lawyer Bruce Culter, called Kasman "one of the finest young men I know," and said "he has a large relationship and concern narration with John Gotti."

But the Gotti household has had different names for their erstwhile friend.

John A. Gotti, Gotti's son, wrote scathingly astir Kasman successful his bestselling publication "Shadow of My Father."  

He branded Kasman "traitorous scum," a "turncoat," who became "the adopted confidential informant of the FBI," who is simply a "perjurer, thief and traitor" who turned connected his father… and the Gotti family, by slipping mendacious accusation to the Feds.

After the elder Gotti died, Kasman got successful occupation with the instrumentality and helium became a confidential informant for the FBI, taping conversations with mobsters and astatine 1 clip it turned out, Mr. Gotti's woman arsenic she recovered from a stroke.

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Eric Shawn talks with Lewis Kasman astir his years alongside John Gotti for the caller Fox Nation amusement "Gotti's Guy." (Fox News)

"What infuriated maine astir Kasman," Gotti's lad wrote, was "that helium had recorded my parent connected a sojourn with her, soon aft her stroke. She was recovering from encephalon surgery, and had been sedated. As directed by the FBI, are determination nary limits to what these debased lives volition bash astatine the behest of their authorities masters? No."

Kasman admits helium was directed by the FBI to secretly portion the younger Gotti, but says helium coiled up inadvertently wearing the ligament connected the sojourn to his mother. 

"It was a mistake," helium present says and profoundly regrets it.

In 1996, Kasman served six months successful national situation aft pleading blameworthy to lying to a expansive assemblage investigating the Gambino transgression family.

 In 2010, Kasman again pleaded blameworthy to fraud and was sentenced to clip served for obstruction of justness and wealth laundering. Gotti's eldest girl Angela was quoted arsenic calling him "a portion of s—," saying "somebody’s got each my father’s money. He was the 1 holding it."

Lewis Kasman, right, describes his narration with John Gotti successful the Fox Nation documentary "Gotti’s Guy," present streaming connected Fox Nation. (Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection, Gerald Herbert/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

Kasman present resides successful Florida and leads a quiescent beingness distant from the streets of the metropolis that were erstwhile Gotti's turf.

As for missing those halcyon days and the aggravated nationalist involvement surrounding Gotti, helium is present wistful.

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"I don’t miss it," helium says. "I miss him." 

"Gotti's Guy" is present streaming connected Fox Nation. Also, ticker the 2nd play of "Stories of the American Mafia" connected Fox Nation.