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A self-described member of John A. Gotti's crime organization described in court yesterday coming of age in a world where he held many construction jobs, yet never did any real work. Joseph D'Angelo told his story as a prosecution witness at Mr. Gotti's racketeering trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, where prosecutors are trying to prove that Mr. Gotti was a member of an organized-crime enterprise that engaged in a pattern of racketeering going back to the 1980's. During the construction of an Ikea store in New Jersey, he said, his job as foreman was to stand in a trailer reading newspapers and making sure that no union guys were bothering anybody.