death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
brooklyn , new york city , new york august 29 , 1988 brooklyn , new york city , new york september 29 , 1935 wilfred johnson
 wilfred johnson
wilfred johnson

wilfred `` willie boy '' johnson -lrb- september 29 , 1935 -- august 29 , 1988 -rrb- was a united states -lrb- fbi -rrb- federal bureau of investigation informant from 1966 to 1985 .
he provided the fbi , who code-named him `` wahoo '' because of his native american heritage , with information relating to john gotti and other members of the gambino family .
johnson was a friend of gambino crime boss john gotti even though johnson was informing on him .
