Late mob boss John Gotti's reality TV star grandson has reported to federal prison after trying to stave off his sentence on fraud charges by saying he was going to donate a kidney to his mother, Victoria Gotti, who suffers from chronic kidney disease. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday that Carmine Agnello began his 15-month prison term the previous day at the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in southern New Jersey. Agnello, who starred on Growing Up Gotti in the mid-2000s, was originally scheduled to report to prison in July. But US District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury agreed to delay that until Sept. 18, saying it would allow enough time to recover from the surgery, presuming that it happened by Aug. 10, as Agnello suggested.
But on Monday, with no operation in sight, Choudhury ordered Agnello to surrender immediately to federal authorities, reports the AP. Agnello's lawyer said in a letter that surgeons needed more time to set a date for the operation because Gotti, the daughter of the former head of New York's Gambino crime family, was dealing with infections. Prosecutors objected, noting that a medical report attached to the defendant's letter said doctors were working to "identify the etiology and the proper treatment" for Gotti's recurring infections and that no transplant can happen until they are fully treated. Agnello pleaded guilty in 2024 to wire fraud after prosecutors said he fraudulently obtained $1.1 million in loans from a federal program meant to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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