And while they're at it, capos Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo (wearing shades) and John (Jackie Nose) D'Amico (white shirt) will have a lot to say about the rackets and the direction of John Gotti's crime family.

D'Amico, 64, and DiLeonardo, 46, are among a handful of Gambino capos with close ties to the cancer ridden Gotti and his son Junior, who won't be getting out of federal prison until 2004.

If they're enterprising, the meeting could come as early as tomorrow, when D'Amico gets out of federal prison after a 17-month stretch for a bookmaking rap that came out of the racketeering case against Junior. It was D'Amico's first conviction.

D'Amico, who began bouncing with the elder Gotti shortly after the Dapper Don beat a federal racketeering charge in 1987, served on a three-capo committee that helped Junior carry out his father's wishes from prison during the mid-1990s, according to the feds. He is expected to resume that role, sources say.

DiLeonardo was acquitted of extortion charges last week in an Atlanta racketeering trial that featured lurid tales of major league sports stars getting

DiLeonardo, who has never been convicted of a crime, was charged with conspiring to extort $100,000 from the owners of Scores, the trendy upper east side strip joint that was controlled by buddies of Junior's.

Atlanta prosecutors, who contended that Mikey Scars was Gold Club owner Steven Kaplan's mob protector, charged that DiLeonardo and Junior had extorted the payoff to resolve a dispute involving a Scores manager.

They had no direct evidence, however, and relied on shaky cooperating witnesses who testified that mobster Craig DePalma had told them about the Scores shakedown. DePalma who is serving seven years for extorting Scores owners and workers, declined to cooperate in the case.

"They had nothing on Mike DiLeonardo, zero," juror Mack Collett told the Atlanta Constitution outside the courthouse.

Capo Salvatore Scala (left) and soldier Charles Carneglia are scheduled to be sentenced this month for extortion charges involving protection money that was paid to an associate from January through June of last year.

And last month, Federal Judge Jacob Mishler, who has twice ignored a statute that mandates that he revoke their bail upon conviction, pretty much told them to kiss their loved ones goodbye before they appear for sentencing.

Scala, 57, and Carneglia, 55, (right) were found guilty in May of being the mob  muscle behind the shakedown of a Long Island adult video store owner who tape recorded their associate explaining the costs of doing business:

"We could cause you problems, number one. Number two, think of it like this. You gotta pay LILCO. You gotta pay your fuckin' electric bill, right? You gotta pay your phone bill. You gotta pay your fuckin' rent. And you gotta pay us."

According to guidelines, the wiseguys each face about five years in prison even though the amount of money they received is close to zero. (Wiseguy sources say it WAS zero, that Scala and Carneglia did a buddy a favor and got nothing for it except the extortion rap.)

It's likely prosecutors will seek to enhance their prison time under provisions that call for heavier time for mobsters with a history of violent activity. Both have gotten away with mob murders -- Carneglia the execution of a Gotti neighbor who killed a Gotti son in a car accident and Scala the slayings of Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti -- according to court papers. 

Brooklyn Federal David Trager said he may recuse himself from the retrial on charges that Watts washed millions of dollars in loansharking profits through a luxurious Florida beach house on the Gulf of Mexico.

Trager hasn't decided about himself yet, but he told Watts to be ready to go on March 4. If convicted, Watts, 60, would face 20 years. Trager put off his tax fraud sentencing, for which he faces five years, until after his retrial.