Monday, May 14, 2018

John Gotti


John Gotti: America's Mobster

John Joseph Gotti Jr. is an Italian-American born into a family of 13, in the Bronx, New York. He is most notably known for becoming the boss of the Gambino crime family, the common nickname he had is “the Dapper Don” because of "his polished appearance and expensive suits." Due to his family's poverty, he resorted to doing petty crimes for other mobsters and eventually joined Fulton-Rockaway Boys gang at age 16 and dropped out of school. 

 Gotti was arrested three times, 1968 for hijacking trucks in Idlewild Airport though he pleads guilty and spent three years in prison, the second one in 1974 was for "revenge slaying of a man who had kidnapped and killed the nephew of crime family boss Carlo Gambino" and was sentenced to four years. Finally, in 1990, Gambino was found guilty of 13 counts which included murder and racketeering, all thanks to one of his gang members, Mobster Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano. 

 June 10, 2002, Gotti ended up dying because of throat cancer at age 61.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousMay 17, 2018 at 9:34 PM

    Before reading this blog post, I actually had never heard of John Gotti and his crime family as you write. If we mentioned him in class, I'm sorry to Mr. Stewart that I didn't pay enough attention.The events of the Italian mobster were mostly revenge on others, as I see from his second murder.

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