Lol. When I was younger seeing these guys on the national news constantly, I remember asking my Grandfather why are they arresting businessmen? CEO’s of Companies? His reply was “cause the government hates competition”…. 😂. It all makes sense now years later
I lived just blocks away from their hangout. I remember on the 4th of July, they threw a fireworks show for the neighborhood that still is the best one I've seen. Free food & drink, and ride's for the children.
Nice to see this old 80s/90s newsreports I am not from America but in my country ( Holland) this was in the news I was a kid and always liked John gotti
That's true. I knew a lawyer that did money laundering for the Tampa family. They did a hit on him. Survived a major tax investigation and even had the evidence fixed so his killing looked like an accident.
Weither you like Gotti or not you cannot deny that he is a gangster through and through. He said who he was and he lived it. He lived a certain way and stood by that. A lot of people respect Gotti including me because that is rare. Its rare that someone is what they say they are. Someone who dont bs about who and what he does. Someone who dont budge on what he believes in. That is so rare because people are fake af ane are all about something until they hit hard times.
Holy shit🤣 Your fuckin profile picture speaks volumes about you and your pathetic mentality. Typical trailer park honky who thinks he's "about that street life" What a joke
The fact that people love Sammy and other rats is cos they know that they’d do what Gravano did and they hate the fact that they’re not like Gotti so they put him down. It’s sooo pathetic that the guy who went away in silence to suffer is the guy who they blame and attack and claim is the one who destroyed the mob instead of their hero who LITERALLY RATTTED OUT everyone he’d known his entire life😂 It’s so unbelievable but then again these are the same generation that do t even know what a woman is now! 🤦🏻
@@larryg5698 maybe the neighbors of BLM and where they lived was filth, but the civilized neighborhoods in the 5 boroughs where the hoods lived were much more safe and pleasant.
Rudy Giuliani had a massive set of balls and deserves his place in history. One day I hope a movie will be made that is equal in quality to that of Eliot Ness in the untouchables, However, Rudy wont need the Hollywood embellishment of Ness’s story.
One thing I ve realized from my experience and watching others..... The government has unlimited time and money.. When they want u, they ll get u. No if, ands, or buts about it.. Gotti became boss at the wrong time and he got everything he came for.
@@2nvsolo451 right. Lol. Say what you want about how he lived his life but he did it on his own terms and accepted the consequences of his choices. A mans man
Having your boss killed so you can take over is insane. I thot about whacking my manager at Wendy's and then I thought, noooo, he'll leave soon anyway.
Nice thanks! Pls see if any footage of informants testifying against bosses (Gravano/Gotti, John alite/Gotti Jr etc. Keep the golden age of journalism alive! Respect 😎
@@MOBFAX I did hear that numerous times but the skeptic in me chose not to believe it..ironic how even 9/11 was televised but nobody bothered to even bug the courtrooms then make a fortune from the footage. Whats even funnier is how a sketch artist is in a way "snapping pictures" and every word is being documented so if ppl look at the sketches while reading the testimony word for word, it could be quite the reenactment. -Salute
I'm still trying to figure out how this life is worth it? In and out of jail. In and out of court. Your freedom constantly at risk. Constant surveillance. Constant worrying. Family constantly getting jammed. Constant threat of being murdered. I dont know, I much rather be a working "sucker" then have to deal with all that nonsense.
I hear you loud and clear and all I can say is to them it was a thrill .. All that you mentioned mostly is what they do it for deep down trust me . It's certainly not the money .lol..the mafia were st on millions
Supposedly it wasn't the Castellano faction of the Gambino family that killed Decicco with the car bomb it was gaspipe the Lucchese underboss and Vincent the chin Gigante conspired to do it in retaliation of them doing an unsanctioned hit on Paul Castellano
@ 28.43, I can't believe they insulted the most famous gangster of all time Al Capone by saying Gotti would have had greater status if he was acquitted , the man was an absolute clown never a gangster.
Easily the weakest well known "boss" there was. This man hemorrhaged the family's money to be flamboyant, degenerately gamble, and pay exorbitant fees to his lawyer. Lawyer fees that existed because he couldnt keep his face out of the camera to begin with. He would order all of his underlings to meet at the Ravenite club just so everyone could make an appearance for cameras. Just to be flashy, and show he was the boss. He was entirely incompetent, and had no idea how to run the technical side of a crime organization. Castellano to Gotti was like a college Professor being killed so a 5th grader could teach the class and eat candy all day. That's why everyone was pissed off about it, and why it wasn't hard for Gravano to betray him. At that point it was a joke anyway.
And that’s why he lasted just a couple years. Unfortunately, fame and attention took over the mob. Same with the philly mob after Bruno was murdered. Narcissists gained control of the families who were extremely incompetent and couldn’t keep a low profile and committing too much violence. Now the mafia is dead
Actually he was very smart ,but guess what they all go down ,anybody in cosa nostra got indicted and sent away ,the government had a vendetta with these guys ,look at the chin who walked around in a bathrobe he died in federal custody
Oh really? He died before Castellano was even hit in 1985, so how exactly would that have worked? His leadership during the early-1980s would have set them up to be the most powerful four decades later? Wow, people make some very silly comments on here.
@@jimmymcgill8412 are you thick?? He’s saying if Mr Neil would have been made boss after Gambino died, instead of Big Paul. And I agree. You wouldn’t have had this rift in the Gambino family that lead to the boss and underboss being assassinated. Neil would have been boss until his passing, and then I wonder who would have gotten the top spot? DiCceo?? Gotti?? Sammy?? An old timer??
The reality the best guy for the job got killed. Carlo Gambino wanted to move the family more into corporate and higher business type stuff. Frankie DIcicco was more that type of guy but he wasn't chosen.
@@therookiesplaybook no bro they paid off on juror so the best case scenario is a hung juror,well he won that trial straight up so they didn't need to it was just security idiot
What does your client say about being accused of being the boss of the gambino’s, “no comment” so he doesn’t deny it? “No comment” man Luciano must be rolling in his grave LMAO 🤣🐐
Luciano lived the high life, very public, big spender, very flashy. He wore the most expensive suits and shoes you could buy, a diamond watch, the fanciest cars. He reign as boss was as short as Gotti's.
When you watch the press conference announcing the verdict you can see how personal they take this... All joking around when they talk about putting someone away for life, be a little more professional... Also it's funny how all of sudden the jury was right and so was the verdict when it's in your favor... Thats the problem with the justice system, it's all about winning. Not getting the truth and accepting the verdict ( no matter what it is ).. If you don't like it, then do better as a lawyer
Agree 100%. Unfortunately it not like NYPD Blue where the police want to get the bad guy off the streets to protect the citizens. It’s about closing cases. If you watch any reality police interrogations or investigation s, they spend 99% of their time trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. If it doesn’t fit, hammer it in.
I wanted to slap those from the state when announcing the guilty verdict. All bigger scumbags than Gotti was perceived to be. Fuckin cocksuckers. Smiling and laughing.
It’s a game to them, and they can stack the deck pretty massively in their favor at times. They can also very often become more focused on convictions, especially high profile ones, and politics in general, at the cost equality and civil rights.
Why is that Gotti always responded to questions from the media with one-liners? Because Gotti knew that if he responded with more than one-liners the world would realize he was a functional illiterate.
This guy saying the Castellano faction was killer of his under boss they all fell in line after Paul died Paul's side were not killers and thugs like the Gotti side had no shot but to follow Gotti.
They thanked everybody and, alll the organizations who had been JUST AS INVOLVED in ALLL the "other" prosecution's that they COULD NOT get a guilty verdict BUT...this time, they had Sammy Gravano! He actually did...by himself, what the government and, all those "other" organizations....COULD NOT DO! Sammy ALWAYS got the job done! It looks like...nobody (including the government) could get nothing done...without Sammy...and nobody even thanks this guy! GOOD DAMN JOB SAMMY! 😂😂😂
They are not outlaws in that The Mafia are insular. They only deal within their own. They don't pay taxes and don't have real, lawful, jobs. They have concrete, waste management, gambling and prostitution rackets among others and do not pay into our system of government. They take what we have and keep for themselves, example, no show jobs. That's why they have "earners". The monies they earn go upward as tribute to capos, captains, underbosses then to the head. But not outward. An insular pyramid scheme that works only for them and not the American people. The Mafia, technically, are a strong argument against open border immigration for whatever administration that's in the White House in DC. Thus, the disconnect between mafioso on the street and, say, Paul Castellano. John Gotti was a street thug. PC was a businessman out of touch with the trenches. JG wasn't feeling that so Mr. Castellano had to go. Power is as power does. So, outlaws, no they were not but good action anyway, if that makes sense, lol.
If was more about a boss being killed without the Commission's permission than personal loyalty to Big Paul. To be fair most of the time it's internal.
@@janecreek1220 agreed, but I believe that it was truly about financial interests (particularly with chin; construction, cement, etc), though on paper it was about violating the "commission rule"...it also didnt hurt that gaspipe was murder happy @ the time.
@@joesantos2455 In "Mafia Prince," the author claims that the Chin was spreading the word to the Scarfo family that the Castellano hit was approved by the Commission so as not to lose face, but also had the Luccheses claim it wasn't as justification to try and take over the Gambinos and put someone loyal to him in as boss. So it sounds like all this stuff about permissions was just empty rhetoric that was cynically used for endless scheming and naked ambition.
@@joesantos2455 it’s always about money and it sets a bad precedent if bosses are killed without consequences. What’s to stop it from happening to them( other bosses)
It took this clown only 6yrs to destroy the mob. Imagine if they had insta back then, this clown would've brought down the mob in less than a year hahah
@@ndn2589 Sammy was the weakest link. He wasn’t killing John Gotti. Easy for him to make those claims now. Instagram? Find me a interview with John Gotti. Not just one liners to the press. You’re mistaken Gotti with Sammy Gravano or some of these other mob vloggers.
Really????? Hmmm I always thought it was increased government pressure , the govt using the RICO law to prosecute the bosses. Nope it was JohnGotti on the cover of Time. Btw Gotti didn’t have a press agent or marketing team. He had no control over the media.
@@southie3177 when you leave bodies in the streets and perform high profile hits(castelleno), when you start mandating your whole crew to meet at the same place, same time every night, you become visible instead of operating in the shadows. When you turn up to court in expensive custom designed suits and leave court grinning smiling from ear to ear, you ruffle feathers, DAs, politicians and police have egos too. This things of theirs is not supposed to exist, yet with this clown at the helm they were out there for the whole world to see. Having lived around guys like this, they're fun guys to be around no doubt but at the end of the day as a community we're better of without them and gotti did his best to bring it down, so amen to him.
Scarfo was Sicilian American,but Gotti wasn't.I think your absolutely correct tho.Sicilians are built different from Northern & Central Italians/Italian Americans.
@@Thorkildzen your right he's of both Napolitano & Calabrese decent. Gotti is Napolitano on his father's side,his mother(I don't know).It ain't Sicilian tho!.
At which time exactly?? By 1985 he was a captain. I think by 1987 or 88 he was consigliere. And I think by 1990 he was underboss But I’m probably wrong on those years
Its truly disturbing how big of a hard on the fedz Gambino squad had for The Teflon & this is not the whole bureau or all NY prosecutors like every other documentary shows its clearly a few Nerdsteins that after years and years and a few more years of heavy pencil pushing got to some real higher up positions & it turned into a p*ssing contest Gotti never had a chance & he knew that so put on a show everytime & clearly the public loved him & also i think the decades of pencil pushing memories played a huge factor in the p*ssing contest kind of like who do u think you are im a so & so graduate with 29 years of heavy pencil pushing under my belt iam above u in every sense yaddi yaddi yadda but also he has unlimited sources unlimited manpower & unlimited funds to chase that one man with the govt on his side.
RIP The Last Real Don RIP Neil Dellacroce he was super powerful UnderBoss is still a Boss and John Gotti was the Boss of Bosses that title remained with Gambino family who were more powerful than any other Family. Albert Anastasia took that title from Frank Costello as Frank Costello was an ally but was slowly stepping away and Vito Genovese was manipulated by the Most Powerful Crime Boss of Bosses Carlo Gambino who hurt so many tuff Mafia Bosses and capos and never so much as felt the sneeze of an attempt. Carlo Gambino hit Albert Anastasia, Joe Colombo, Joe Gallo, shelved Joe Bonanno, Joe Magliocco and had Colombo made man Dominic Mimi Scialo killed for insulting Carlo Gambino and when the westies kidnapped his nephew Carlo Gambino refused to pay the ransom otherwise more kids or nephews be taken so that is why Manny Gambino was killed and that's why McBratney was killed and John Gotti upon release Paul Castellano made John Gotti and promoted him to Capo and that doesn't happen but what Sammy dont tell on youtube he was a made guy when Paul was killed John Gotti was acting Captain sitting with made guys reporting to Neil Dellacroce who had as much power as some bosses that is unheard of but John Gotti was a big earner and could get the work aka the hits done...RIP Don Carlo Gambino and Neil Dellacroce and RIP John Gotti Sr
@@chadjones6313 yup. Gotti was leading a crew of serious guys since he was old enough to shave. Killers don’t respect or follow a guy who is “ tough guy, good with his hands “
@Bobby Care he was a fucking nightmare leonetti should have been boss and scarfo. Consigliere and they would still be a strong family. Especially when the gambling took off. They should have put Leonetti on the throne he could have had Salvi. Testa as underboss but it all went to shit down to. Little man syndrome Scarfo. Just got off on murder. A very sick man. A man who can’t be reasoned with can’t be trusted
@@twinstar2566 he actually beat me. I was first last time. He might be 12, if so interesting stuff a twelve year old is watching. Feel like a tough guy?
