Joseph Watts, also known as "The German", is an associate of the Gambino crime family. He was a close confidant of former boss John Gotti and participated in the infamous 1985 assassination of Paul "Big Paul" Castellano. Watts was not a made man due to being only Italian on his maternal side, while being German, Welsh on his paternal side, although many Mob historians believe Watts was given the same status as a captain, similar to Jimmy Burke in the Lucchese family.