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A former bartender at John A. Gotti's social club testified yesterday that the club had hot-pink walls and an elaborate buzzer system and that a crucial prosecution witness, a turncoat mobster who claims that he made plans in the club to carry out a kidnapping Mr. Gotti had ordered, was never there. Whether jurors believe that Mr. D'Angelo was ever in the club could be important to the prosecution's case against Mr. Gotti, who is accused of racketeering conspiracy, including conspiring to kidnap Curtis Sliwa, a radio host and the founder of the Guardian Angels. Testifying in Federal District Court in Manhattan earlier this week, Mr. D'Angelo said Mr. Gotti had convened a meeting at the Ozone Park club, where he ordered Mr. D'Angelo and two other men to rough up Mr. Sliwa, to punish him for insulting the Gotti family on his show.