"I was the chief of staff of the Gambino crime family."That's how Lewis Kasman describes his role at the side of legendary Mafia boss John Gotti.Kasman spent years with Gotti and the Gambino crime family and is now peeling back some of the secrets and revealing what that life was like at the top of the American Mafia."I had a big toy chest in my attic in my house in Woodbury filled with millions of dollars in it," he says, in amounts varying from $6 to $10 million, depending on the month, saying the Gambino family earned more than $100 million a year.EX-COLOMBO CRIME FAMILY CAPO REVEALS HOW GAS TAX SCHEME RAKED IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WEEKLYLewis Kasman, seen on the right, escorting John Gotti's brother Peter as they arrive at the U.S.Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York in 1992.
(Gerald Herbert/NY Daily News via Getty Images)"I loved it.I loved it all.
I loved the power...to have the boss's ear, and I had unfettered access.It was amazing."Kasman, who is now 68 years old, opens up about his friendship and working with Gotti for a Fox Nation exclusive documentary, "Gotti's Guy," which can be seen on the Fox Nation streaming site and Fox One.Throughout the late 1980s and early '90s, as Gotti reigned over the underworld, Kasman was right there, in the inner circle.
He was a familiar fixture accompanying the Don, the made men and Gotti's lawyers.He was routinely referred to as "Gotti's adopted son" by the news media and frequently interviewed and quoted defending Gotti during his various trials.In the Fox Nation program, Kasman describes how he grew up as "a Jewish kid on Long Island," who went to sleep-away camp and had a bar mitzvah, to being the trusted sidekick and sounding board to the most infamous Mafia Don since Al Capone."We had a brotherhood me and him," says Lewis.
"I had no agenda and he had no agendas.He just wanted my friendship and my voice to speak for him when he didn’t want to speak or couldn't speak, because of his position."Lewis says Gotti...