Joseph Watts (born 1942) also known as "The German" is an associate of the Gambino crime family.
John Gotti appointed Watts as a liaison to the Westies, an Irish-American gang in Hells Kitchen.
The Westies were being used as hired guns for the Gambino family under Paul Castellano, and continued under the Gotti regime.
According to the testimony of government witness; Dominic "Fat Dom" Borghese, Watts allegedly drove him from Queens to Staten Island in the back of his black Mercedes-Benz.
In 2011, Watts was convicted for his part in a 1989 murder conspiracy ordered by John Gotti, and sentenced to 13 years in prison.