Here's the real funny thing.....HBO and script is totally wrong...
On March 18, 1980, Frank borrowed a friend's "motorized" mini-bike and took a ride around his Howard Beach neighborhood.On 157th Avenue. John Favara, a service department manager for a furniture manufacturer, was on his way home from work. Favara was a neighbor of the Gotti's. near 87th, a house was under renovation. A dumpster had been placed in the street to collect the debris. It was on Favara's right. Favara did not notice the boy on the mini-bike dash into the street from the other side of the dumpster, and his car struck and killed Frank Gotti.
So...no riding a bicycle from football practice....
On July 28,1980 three days before he was to close on the sale of his house, Favara was abducted while leaving work....Capeci identifies eight crewmembers Angelo Ruggiero, Willie Boy Johnson, Gene Gotti, John and Charles Carneglia, Anthony Rampino, Richard Gomes and Iggy Alogna as having played a role in the abduction and slaying.
It played out like this: as Favara approached his automobile he spotted the men and turned to run. John Carneglia dropped him with two shots from a .22 caliber, silencer-equipped pistol. Favara gasped, "No. No. Please, my wife," as he struggled to get off the ground. Gomes, a former hood from Providence, Rhode Island, who had joined the Gotti crew in the late 1970s, cracked Favara over the head with a two-by-four, picked him up and threw him in a van. Another crewmember took the victim's keys and followed in Favara's car.
Favara and his car were driven to a salvage yard in East New York operated by the Carneglias. There Favara's body was stuffed into a barrel that was then filled with cement. While Charles Carneglia disposed of the barrel in the ocean off Brooklyn, his brother John crushed Favara's car at the salvage yard. No one was ever arrested for the abduction and murder. In 1983, Favara's wife had him officially declared dead.
so no....crack over the head, punched in the face and shot in a tunnel....by Sammy Gravano
true story would have been better to watch...I guess it didn't make it on the cutting room floor
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BShepherd24
11 years ago
How do you know that your story is true! There is no true story to Favara's story because no one knows for sure
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davcalla777
9 years ago
Absolutely well said, nice to see some people know the truth, and that being said, such a shame about Frank Gotti being killed at such a young age but, the accident was not Favaras fault whatsoever, but, from what I heard, mind u he lived right next door to the Gotti's in Howard Beach Queens, for months after Franks death, he drove the same car around without fixing the broken windshield, with Franks blood all over it. And Johns wife Victoria saw that every day, I don't want to say Favara deserved it but, killing, an accident or not, a Mafioso's favorite kid, and reminding everyone close about it, well, NYPD tried to warn him but, little good it did too late....
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mercury4
9 years ago
Favara wasn't very bright. It wasn't his fault and it was an accident. I'm not blaming him for that and they shouldn't have killed him. But Favara made so many mistakes. As someone pointed out, he kept the same car with the broken windshield for them to see everyday. That was a dumb thing to do. I read that he spoke to his priest and his priest advised him not to go to Frank's wake. Mrs. Gotti didn't like that. The word "Murderer" was spray painted on his car. Mrs. Gotti went after him with a baseball bat. People warned him to get out of town before it was too late. He shrugged it off and thought that stuff only happened in the movies. He took too long to sell his house and he should've got the hell out of there as fast as he could. The guy didn't use his head.
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