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    John ‘Junior’ Gotti rages at reporter as wife, daughter plead not guilty — again — in alleged slur-filled LI basketball brawl

    By Desheania Andrews, Matt Troutman,

    23 hours ago

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    Fuhgeddabout the Gotti girls dodging a legal bullet.

    Kimberly and Gianna Gotti yet again pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a Long Island courtroom to an assault charge from a wild youth basketball game that allegedly turned into a slur-filled gangland-style brawl .

    The mafia royals otherwise stayed mum during the arraignment — their second in the case, owing to a dispute over the charging documents — but the same couldn’t be said for John “Junior” Gotti outside the courtroom.

    Gotti — the son of infamous “Dapper Don” mafioso John Gotti, husband to Kimberly, 55, and father of Gianna, 23 — boisterously tangled with a Newsday reporter over the paper’s coverage of the February melee.

    “This is not my first rodeo,” he raged at the reporter. “You go out of your way to do false reporting. Stop it.

    “I’ve always gotten along with the press, I just don’t get along with you.”

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    John Gotti Jr. argued with a reporter outside the Long Island courthouse. Dennis A. Clark

    The mafia scion apparently had a beef with reported accounts about what went down during a Feb. 8 basketball game at Locust Valley High School.

    Kimberly Gotti grew upset at a woman who shouted insults at her son Joe, who was playing for the visiting Oyster Bay High School team, according to court records.

    She and Gianna eventually lunged at the woman, pummeled her and ripped off her wig, and called the other team’s players “fa—ts and p—ies,” sources previously told The Post and Newsday reported .

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    Kimberly Gotti is the daughter-in-law of the late “Dapper Don,” while her daughter Gianna Gotti is a professional basketball player who played for Brooklyn College before signing with a team in Portugal .

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    Kimberly Gotti allegedly became upset at a woman who heckled her son during a February youth basketball game. Dennis A. Clark
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    Gianna Gotti allegedly joined her mother in the Feb. 8 brawl. Dennis A. Clark
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    Gianna Gotti played professional basketball with a team in Portugal. giannagotti/Instagram

    After the mother-daughter duo was charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault, their attorneys spent months attacking the woman’s credibility, arguing she only identified them after she saw them in handcuffs.

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    The lawyers contended the mob family’s name was used against them and that the case should be dismissed .

    The Gotti gals also passed a chance to flip — they shot down plea deals in March that would have put them in anger management in exchange for settling the charges.

    Judge David Goodsell in May told prosecutors to clear up how the Gottis were identified by the alleged victim, prompting prosecutors to file new charging documents that led to the second arraignment.

    The Gottis are due back in court Sept. 10.

    Gianna Gotti’s attorney Gerard Mattone, after the hearing, still contended the victim had credibility issues, including a past arrest.

    “We’ll see what happens, but I think most likely the case will be dismissed,” he said.

    “If the defendants’ last name wasn’t Gotti, this would not have gone this far,” said Steve Christiansen, who represents Kimberly Gotti.

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