 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I am Scott Bernstein other quick hitter edition Please remember to like subscribe share the og pod spread the word and I'll keep bringing you the best content when it comes to true crime on the internet uncovering the underworld here at og pod quick hitter John Gotti versus the KKK interesting anecdote came out in the lazy Idaho press in the last couple days that recounts a issue that John Gotti had when he was in prison in Marion, Illinois. The Dapper Don doing his life sentence from 91 until he died in 02 had some type of beef with a very, very prominent KKK Aryan Brotherhood shot call guiding David Eden Lane who is iconic in the world of white supremacy led a offshoot of the KKK known as the order was serving a life prison sentence for racketeering as well as the murder of a Jewish radio host out of Denver that's where Lane was from also operated in Idaho, Montana, California and Gotti I guess was doing an interview with the New York Times from prison in the 1990s and made some comments to these reporters related to Lane and his dislike of Lane and how kind of what a hillbilly Lane was unsophisticated. Some of the interview had to do with Gotti's distaste for the food in federal prison trying to get the reporters to talk to the Department of Corrections for him the BOP and he talked about how we wanted to be eating linguine with clam sauce and lasagna and chicken parmesan and then he I don't know if David Lane was there where he could see him or he just referenced him to the reporters but he made some comment along the lines of you know this this cycle from from Idaho I think he was wrong he was from Denver but he said something like this cycle from Idaho over here you know he doesn't know good food he'd be happy with a hamburger every night and then from some prison documents related to internal discipline it looks like Lane and Gotti had to be separated I don't know how this plays into what we've always heard about when Gotti got to prison he got attacked by a member of the the black Muslims and it was believed that he started paying members of the Aryan Brotherhood for protection I don't know if he was paying Lane or who he was paying but it seems like within that arrangement there there was some sort of fallout and and Gotti and this Lane guy were at odds and butting heads again David Lane he passed away in 2007 of complications regarding epilepsy I believe he had a seizure and died in prison Gotti died of cancer in 02 this was happening in the 1990s but it's interesting to see that kind of cross pollination of Aryan Brotherhood white supremacy in the mafia and how at one point they were working together in prison protecting Gotti and then it seems like Gotti alienated himself from them at some point and and got into a dispute with Lane and obviously nothing happened there at least there are no reported instances of any type of physical altercation or attack but according to this recent report from a Boise Idaho media outlet Gotti and David Eden Lane had a big beef in prison the mafia versus the Klu Klux Klan in Marion Illinois federal correctional facility which was the precursor to what we have now in Florence Colorado the ADX the supermax for all of the worst of the worst in the in the BOP get locked up there 23 hour lockdown it was like that in Marion in the 90s and that's where these guys were so just interesting anecdote and and it kind of flies in the face of the narrative that Gotti had to run to the Aryan Brotherhood for help and that might have been a case at some point in his prison career but based on this more recent reporting it looks like at the end Gotti and the Aryan Brotherhood specifically David Lane were at odds and fighting and David Lane when he died he got a lot more celebrated and a lot more fanfare within the underworld than John Gotti John Gotti you know his funeral was not the type of state funeral that you would have maybe expected where you had all these members of all these crime families from around the country coming to pay their respects it was a much quieter affair a lot of mafia dons told their soldiers not to attend there were a lot of people that were upset with Gotti for all the attention that he brought and they believed that the Gotti reign was actually very detrimental to the mafia in America but more specifically in New York City but when David Eden Lane passed away in 2007 even though he was in prison it was a really big deal with members of the Aryan Brotherhood from around the country doing memorials and vigils and acts of of remembrance online and it speaks to what a huge figure David Eden Lane was in the white supremacist movement but we know now that him and John Gotti did not see eye to eye and I just wanted to bring it to you guys and let you know because I was I was interested by it and I figured you'd be interested by it too so uh until next time another quick hitter edition at the OG pod I'm Scott Bernstein I'm out