Joe "the German" Watts, a long-time crony of the late Gambino boss John Gotti, was sentenced by Manhattan federal judge Colleen McMahon to the maximum prison term of thirteen years after the degenerate career criminal pleaded guilty last January to hatching a plot to whack Staten Island businessman Fred Weiss who was suspected of cooperating with authorities as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post: "'He does not appear to know how to live his life without violence and killing,' she said." The Watts plot did not come to fruition, and the feds believe that the 1989 murder of Weiss instead was carried out by the DeCavalcante family to curry favor with the Dapper Don.
Further coverage:
"John Gotti associate Joseph (The German Watts) sentenced to 13 years in prison for mob murder" by Robert Gearty for the Daily News
