Charles Carneglia, who is serving life in prison for four murders, was a hitman for John Gotti, leader of New York's Gambino mob in the 1980s.
But now a letter from 65-year-old Carneglia, who has been incarcerated at a high-security prison in Pennsylvania, hints at a pang of remorse.
'I apologise for being, how can I say this, pushy, in the past,' Carneglia wrote to lawyer Beverly Van Ness, the New York Daily News reported.
'I’m trying my best to cope with the situation. Again I apologise and I hope you forgive me.'
Yet the convicted killer, also known as 'Charlie Carnig', did not add any apologies for his victims.
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Carneglia allegedly dissolved the body of Gotti's neighbour, John Favara, in acid before tossing his finger bones into another gangster's soup.
Mobsters: John Gotti Jr, left, and Carneglia in 1991. Carneglia allegedly dissolved the body of a man who had killed John Gotti Sr's son in acid
Farvara became a target after accidentally killing Gotti's 12-year-old son in a traffic accident.
THE GOTTI GANSTER
Charles Carneglia was a hitman for Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.
Among killings ordered by Gotti, heallegedly dissolved the body of Gotti's neighbour, John Favara, in acid before tossing his finger bones into another gangster's soup.
Farvara became a target after accidentally killing Gotti's 12-year-old son in a traffic accident.
Carneglia was jailed in 2009 for four murders.
John Gotti ran the Gambinos with an iron fist. He was known as 'Dapper Don' for his custom-made suits and the 'Teflon Don' for avoiding racketeering and assault convictions in the 1980s.
He clawed his way to power by murdering rivals outside a Midtown steakhouse in 1985.
But federal wiretaps and the testimony of turncoat Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano in 1992 finally sent Gotti away for life.
He died in federal prison of throat cancer in 2002.
During a 1990 ambush in the World Trade Center parking lot, Carneglia also shot four bullets into a man who ignored his invitation to a social club.
A security guard, Jose Delgado Rivera, gunned down during a heist at Kennedy Airport was another of his victims.
Carneglia is now his own lawyer and has filed his own appeal against the life sentence he received for a series of killings.
In court papers, he argued he was wrongfully convicted as he was given poor advice from his lawyers and procedural errors impinged on his rights, the New York Post reported.
He complained his attorneys ignored his advice to put him on the witness stand and failed to object to the questioning of jurors in a small room behind the courtroom.
He spoke with Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein over speakerphone on Thursday.
Carneglia, who claimed he suffers from pulmonary disease, emphysema and asthma, told the judge his health felt 'terrible'.
But he once told an FBI agent that 'longevity runs in my family'.
'My mother’s over 90 years old. I don’t want to spend the next 30 years in jail,' he said.
Leader: John Gotti, also known as the Teflon Don, died in prison in 2002
Judge Weinstein told Carneglia he would rule on his motion soon.
But the daughter of one of his victims, Jose Delgado Rivera, told the Daily News she was glad to hear the killer was suffering.
'Poor b******,' Evelyn Colon said. 'I hope they will be taking him out soon in a body bag.'
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