Key players in the plot with Gotti were Genovese capo Alfonso (Allie Shades) Malangone and former Luchese underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, according to an FBI summary of tape recorded remarks that Genovese capo Alan (Baldie) Longo (right) made last fall during a three year FBI probe of the Genovese clan.

"John Gotti was taking over. (Be)cause our friend (Malangone) grew up with him, we could make a deal. He (Chin) was dead," Longo said, adding that the whole thing fell apart because Casso declined to take part.

"If Gaspipe could have been talked into killing our friend, you know who would have been our boss, Alley Shades … He was always up John's ass," said Longo, who was Malangone's bodyguard chauffeur in 1988, when the plot was hatched.

Casso, who began cooperating with the feds in 1994 but subsequently fell

Malangone, a former major player in the city's private sanitation business now serving 5-to-15 years for racketeering, often visited Gotti at the Ravenite Social Club and was videotaped with him there. He and Longo even attended Gotti's 49^th birthday party there, according to court records.

"Longo described how one night (he) and Malangone met with Gotti after Gotti came from a meeting with Chin," FBI agent Michael Campi said in his report of an Oct. 18, 2000 conversation Longo had with undercover operative Michael (Cookie) Durso.

The Gotti-Gigante sitdown, the first and last one they ever had, took place in 1988 in Greenwich Village with leaders of the Gambino, Genovese and Luchese crime families. After that get-together, Longo, now 51, and Malangone, now 64, met with Gotti above the Ravenite in an apartment that Gotti often used for high-level talks

"I just met your friend," Longo quoted Gotti as telling them. "Come up in the apartment. I want to tell you something. What would Chin say if he knew I told you everything Chin told me? What would he say if he ever knew you told me stuff?"

"That was John, that was John," said Longo.

Longo, one of two reputed members of the Genovese ruling committee nailed for a litany of racketeering charges in the probe, also told Durso – who was an associate and not a made member – about many high-level decisions and dealings he was either involved in, or knew of, involving his own family and other families. He said capo Ralph Coppola (left) – who has been missing and presumed murdered since October, 1998 – was disappointed he wasn't named acting boss and that Frank (Farby) Serpico, 57, (right) another Genovese ruling member nailed

At the urging of Genovese capo Salvatore (Sammy Meatballs) Aparo, (right) Longo arranged a meeting with Colombo underboss John (Jackie) DeRoss over money the Colombos owed to capo Joseph Zito.

Longo stressed that he would resolve the dispute with the family's acting boss Alphonse (Allie) Persico, when he got out of prison. That hasn't happened, but Longo may get a chance to talk to Persico about it at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where they're both detained awaiting trial.

Longo "believes the Genovese family is so much stronger than the other families in the event there was a war," said the FBI report, adding that Longo said the Genoveses have "30 or 40 quality guys," naming codefendants Aparo, 72, Pasquale (Patty Boy) Falcetti, 42, and Peter (Petey Red) DiChiara, 58, among them.

"Don't let anyone tell you we're dead. Cause we're here," Longo said, telling Durso that he and other "tough guys" would soon be inducted to strengthen 

"Whenever we step out and do something (murder, according to the FBI report ) we going to get the guys we can trust and do it," Longo said, according to the report.

Citing Longo's remarks and testimony by FBI agent Joy Adam, Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Weinstein convinced Brooklyn Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak that Longo was a danger to the community. He was held without bail.

Weinstein and co-prosecutors Daniel Dorsky, Jill Feeney and Paul Schoeman detained nine of the 18 indicted defendants they sought to remand. There are 40 mobsters and associates in the case, charged with extortion, loansharking, gambling, marijuana dealing, labor racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud, stock fraud, and bank robberies, among other crimes. One is a fugitive.

"We never got to hear the tapes," said Longo's lawyer Joseph Sorrentino. "We think the words in the reports are taken out of context and that the conclusions made by the FBI are completely ridiculous. We are considering an appeal to the trial Judge in the case." 

"Geraci has a lot of aggravation," wrote FBI agents Joy Adam and Michael Campi in a summary of the conversation, in which Slick bemoaned the mob's hypocrisy in reaching out to Casso in 1977 when he was a potential witness against Gigante.

"My son was six months old. It was two and a half years ago. He (Geraci's capo) calls me up. 'You got to come in. Gaspipe is in MCC We want your wife. Get your wife to go talk to her father to see what's going on with the Chin.' With my six year-month son, fly back with a major storm coming.

"In other words, our friend thought maybe he can help him (Chin) by recanting and taking back ... I got to fly my wife from Florida and make her go there and talk to him. How the fuck can they make her talk to a stool pigeon. We don't talk to stool pigeons, we hate stool pigeons. We don't talk to them," said Geraci.