John Gotti was a very angry jailbird as he awaited sentencing for murder and racketeering in 1992. Among others, he was furious at the FBI, at federal prosecutors, and their superstar witness – turncoat underboss Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano.

But those antagonists were beyond his reach. So Gotti lashed out at Curtis Sliwa – the Guardian Angel founder who repeatedly bashed the Gambino boss as a lowlife drug dealer on his talk radio show. The frustrated mob kingpin personally ordered the shooting of Sliwa, Gang Land has learned.

FBI documents obtained by Gang Land paint the late Dapper Don as the ultimate authority behind the sensational shooting for which sources say the feds are now looking to nail his jailed son and former acting boss, John A. (Junior) Gotti. (left)

Said Sliwa: “The tree doesn’t fall far from the acorn when it comes to the Gottis. In my eyes, Senior, Junior, Peter, Richard, (right) they’re all the same. When Senior gave the okay, I know it was La Famiglia Gotti, the whole family, giving me the thumbs down. A pox on the Gotti house. They should all burn in hell without an asbestos suit.”

Gambino soldier Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro spilled the beans about the Sliwa shooting to mob associate Salvatore (Fat Sal) Mangiavillano while both were part of a family plot to kill Gravano, according to a report by FBI agents Cindy Peil and Theodore Otto.

“Sliwa was shot because he was badmouthing John Gotti,” Huck explained to Fat Sal, the government’s key witness at Carbonaro’s ongoing murder conspiracy trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, according to the documents. Huck

is charged with plotting to kill Gravano, his onetime mob crew chief who turned on Gotti – and most of his crime family.

Silwa wasn’t the only one who got under the Gambinos’ skin, according to the reports, which disclose that Huck, unlike many wiseguys, is apparently not a Gang Land fan.

“During the same conversation,” the agents wrote, “Carbonaro told (Mangiavillano) that he felt columnist Jerry Capeci should have been shot instead for ‘all the shit he writes.’”

Normally, this stuff rolls right off Gang Land’s back. Once, the Dapper Don himself was overheard on an FBI bug offering to punch me out as a favor to a lawyer; another time he sent a message through another lawyer that he would like to kick me in the ass.

Thankfully, those threats were never carried out. This one, however, is a bit more unsettling since Gotti’s guys actually plugged an unsuspecting Sliwa full of holes. I assume – and hope – that Huck was speaking hyperbolically, albeit with a bit more vitriol than Gotti ever used in any of his invectives.

In any event, sources said, with Gotti dead, Manhattan federal prosecutors are moving ahead with plans to indict the Junior Don and a few other wiseguys in

the June 19, 1992 early morning shooting of Sliwa – four days before the elder Gotti was sentenced to life.

As Gang Land disclosed in June, turncoat capo Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo (left) has told the feds that under Junior’s direction, two associates who were later inducted into the crime family – Joseph D’Angelo and Michael (Mikey Y) Yannotti – did the work, picking Sliwa up in a stolen taxicab he hailed on his way to work. D’Angelo drove the yellow cab and Yannotti shot Sliwa three times before he could escape out a window.

Mangiavillano, who concluded his testimony at Carbonaro’s trial yesterday, also fingered D’Angelo, 34, and Yannotti, 31, as the wiseguys who carried out the attack, according to the documents.

In recent months, sources said, the feds have been rebuked by three former cohorts of DiLeonardo that FBI agents asked to join the mob defector – D’Angelo and two associates who reported to Mikey Scars before he turned – Louis (Louie Black) Mariani, 47, and Noel Modica, 40.

D’Angelo, a former Gravano protégé who rattled the pint-sized turncoat when he took the stand against Gotti three months before the Sliwa attack, is due to be released from federal prison next April after serving four years for extortion and drug dealing.

But with Mikey Scars leading the charge and Fat Sal bringing up the rear, it’s a safe bet that before D’Angelo completes that term, he’ll be charged with the Sliwa shooting as part of a racketeering indictment along with Yannotti and Junior Gotti, who’s due to conclude his 77 month sentence in September.

Meanwhile, Gravano is waiting in the wings to testify as a defense witness for Carbonaro, (right) who has hopefully softened his position about Gang Land.

Gambino soldier Peter Piacenti is known as “Petey 17” not because of his age, but because of a nightclub he used to run. Piacenti (left) is actually 82 and he looks it. He takes so many medications for so many ailments that his wife had to write a list of them so he could tell the judge about them when he pleaded guilty to gambling charges last month.

But the octogenarian gangster is obviously aware of the lenient sentencing reputation of Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block. And there’s nothing wrong with Petey 17’s memory, either.

A generation or two ago, Piacenti ran a Bensonhurst, Brooklyn nightclub called The 1717 Club, hence the nickname. But Piacenti’s number also came up when he was the 17^th and last defendant in the waterfront racketeering indictment against Mafia Boss Peter Gotti to resolve his case. Gotti (right) and six others were convicted at trial and face sentences up to 20 years. Nine others copped plea deals and face less than three years.

Petey 17 knew that prosecutor Katya Jestin had agreed to recommend probation for his illegal gambling plea involving Joker Poker machines, but he was visibly shaken when Magistrate Judge Viktor Pohorelsky

told him he was standing in for Block.

“I have to give him up?” he asked, unhappily, thinking that Pohorelsky would be the sentencing judge.

Assured that Block would receive a tape recording and a transcript of the proceeding and would be the sentencing judge, Piacenti breathed a sigh of relief.

Petey 17 downplayed his culpability, saying initially that he only introduced suppliers of Joker Poker machines to bar owners who wanted them “because I’ve been in that area where these machines were for at least 60 years.”

Piacenti also waxed nostalgic, if somewhat incomprehensible, on the topic of the famous day in 1934 when reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (right) took a sledge hammer to a pile of one-armed bandits, many that had belonged to Frank Costello, (left) the John Gotti of his day.

“I knew slot machines were illegal from many years ago when LaGuardia took a warm swim in the water,” said Piacenti. Gang Land can’t give an authoritative explanation of this wonderful phrase, but to Petey 17 we say: Cent Anni.