John Gotti Research Paper

John Gotti was a notorious mobster, who ruled the underworld between 1986 to 1992. Gotti began his life of crime from an early age and he referred it as the best thing ever. He was charming yet a feared man. Often getting persecuted by the FBI, he would always get away with it. Adapting the nickname “Teflon Don”. He became the boss of the most dominating crime family in the country. John Gotti became the most known mafioso in the 20th century.

Crime John Gotti was accused of the murder of Paul Castellano. Paul Castellano was murdered in front of Sparks Steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan on December 16, 1985. As he was getting off the car with Thomas Bilotti, there was a hit team waiting on them, and began shooting. As the Castellano and Bilotti’s corpses fell on the ground, the hit man team fled, and John Gotti with Sammy Gravano, drove by to make sure they were dead.

Paul Castellano was the Gambino Family Boss, he had succeeded Carlo Gambino. He wasn’t very liked by the family itself, especially John Gotti. Castellano was more of a businessman, and the Gambino family thought he wasn’t really looking after the family, he was trying to make it a legitimate business. He was cutting people’s crew from profitable deals making it hard to earn money. He saw the capo’s crews as if they were

The apartment belonged to a widow of gambino mobster. It was located next door to a club called the Ravenite. On December 11, 1990, John Gotti, Frankie LoCascio and Sammy Gravano were arrested. Sammy Gravano, who was Gotti’s underboss testified against him because he heard the tape recording of Gotti bad mouthing him. On April 2,1992 John Gotti was found guilty by a jury on 13 counts, including the order to murder Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti, also of racketeering, extortion and jury tampering from the previous trails. He got sentenced for life without possibility of