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The first time, said Kasman, was in 1992, when during a visit with Gotti at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Kasman and the Dapper Don stopped an angry Junior Don from doing a number on me, just like he allegedly did on Curtis Sliwa that year.

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 Three attempts to convict Gotti for an attack on the founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, all ended in mistrials in 2005 and 2006 and the charges were dropped.

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Sliwa, who usually has a pretty well-tuned B.S. detector, might well have responded along these lines: Wait a minute, Lewis, you mean to say that John Gotti and Jackie Nose strolled through Penn Station three days a week in 1990.

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"It's the Fallujah of the United States," said Sliwa, a reference to the Iraqi city where U.S. soldiers battled insurgents.

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Even so, the Dashing Don story is so preposterous that it's surprising that the savvy Sliwa didn't call Kasman on it.

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Contacted by Gang Land, Angel Gotti, daughter of the late Don and certainly the least controversial member of the Gotti family, took issue with everything Kasman told Sliwa Saturday morning.

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Alright, there were also a few broadsides leveled against this reporter during the 30 minute rant on Sliwa's show.

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"Everything he said on that Sliwa show is a lie," she said.

Jerry Capeci: Dapper Don as Dashing Don; Kasman Spins More Tall Tales Jerry Capeci 2011

The ridiculous story was the latest foolishness to flow from Lewis Kasman, the self-described "adopted son" of the late Mafia boss who made this claim and other nonsense during a free-flowing discussion with Curtis Sliwa on WNYM 970AM The Apple.

Jerry Capeci: Dapper Don as Dashing Don; Kasman Spins More Tall Tales Jerry Capeci 2011

"It's the Fallujah of the United States," said Sliwa, a reference to the Iraqi city where U.S. soldiers battled insurgents.

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