Towards the end of 1999, law enforcement filed reports of two alleged New Jersey heroin merchants reporting to John Gotti's brother, Peter, in New York's Ozone Park. The two men were named Alphonse "Funzi" Sisca and Arnold "Zeke" Squitieri.
Squitieri, 63, and Sisca, 62, were released from federal prison in March of '99 after serving more than 11 years for dealing drugs in the early 1980's with Gene Gotti and the Gotti brothers' boyhood pal, Angelo Ruggiero. Squitieri was allegedly promoted to capo after being released.
In 1982, Squitieri and Sisca would meet Angelo Ruggiero in Queens and purchase heroin they distributed throughout the Garden State, ploice say.
Squitieri is said to have been inducted into the crime family in 1986, a few months after the assassination of Paul Castellano. Two years later, according to turncoat Gambino underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, Squitieri was part of a hit team that executed alleged mobster Louie Milito in Tali's Bar at Brooklyn.
In 1988, they were convicted of conspiring to distribute heroin with Gene Gotti, John Carneglia (they are due out in 2018), and Angelo Ruggiero (died of cancer before the trial), and of selling a kilogram of heroin for $180,000 to Richard Pasqua, a drug dealer who testified against them.
John Gotti supposedly liked Squitieri, but it's only reported that they played cards together.