According to Gravano, Gotti also considered murdering Ruggiero and when he finally died " I literally had to drag him to the funeral.

On June 24, 1992, Gotti was sentenced to life in federal prison, where he died in 2002.

With John Gotti and the Bergin crew in hot water with the indictment of Angelo Ruggerio on heroin distribution charges, Milito feared Gravano and his crew could be in danger of being killed along with Gotti, once Neil Dellacroce died.

When Gotti Sr died in prison in 2002, his brother Peter took over as boss, allegedly alongside D ' Amico, but the family's fortunes have dwindled to a remarkable extent given their power a few short decades ago, when they were considered the most powerful criminal organization on earth.

As former rivals of John Gotti took completely over the Gambino family, mostly because the rest of Gotti's loyalists were either jailed or under indictments, and because Gotti, Sr died in prison in 2002, then-current head of white collar crimes and caporegime, Michael " Mikey Scars " DiLeonardo turned state's evidence, due to increased law enforcement and credible evidence to be presented in his racketeering trial, and chose to testify against mobsters from all of the Five Families.

* 1985 – 2002 — John " Dapper Don " A Gotti – imprisoned in 1990, died in 2002.

In 1998 Gotti was diagnosed with throat cancer and sent to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, for surgery.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Former mob boss John " Teflon Don " Gotti dies of cancer.

While the tumor was removed, the cancer was discovered to have returned two years later and Gotti was transferred back to Springfield, where he would spend the remainder of his life.

In August 2005, Gotti claimed she had breast cancer.

The bad media she received from her breast cancer claim is also believed to have caused the cancellation of Growing Up Gotti.

* 1985 – Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.

Gotti was on trial concerning a variety of felony charges when Quinn visited the court room.

In 1991, Gravano agreed to turn state's evidence and testify for the prosecution against Gotti after hearing Gotti on wiretap make several disparaging remarks about Gravano and questioning his loyalty.

John Gotti was born in an Italian-American enclave in the Bronx on October 27, 1940.

Two months later, while out on bail, Gotti was arrested a third time for hijacking — this time for stealing a load of cigarettes worth $ 50, 000, on the New Jersey Turnpike.

On March 18, 1980, Gotti's youngest son, 12-year-old Frank Gotti, was run over and killed on a family friend's minibike by John Favara, a neighbor.

While the Gottis were on vacation in Florida at the time, John Gotti is still presumed to have ordered the killing, an allegation considered probable by John, Jr., while denied by his daughter Victoria.

In his last two years as the Bergin Capo, Gotti was indicted on two occasions, with both cases coming to trial after his ascension to Gambino Boss.

In August 1983, Ruggiero and Gene Gotti were arrested for dealing heroin, based primarily on recordings from a bug in Ruggiero's house.

DeCicco tipped Gotti off that he would be having a meeting with Castellano and several other Gambino mobsters at Sparks Steak House on December 16, 1985, and Gotti chose to take the opportunity.

The following year, the FBI warned Gotti they had recorded Genovese consigliere Louis Manna discussing another hit on John and Gene Gotti.

According to the DeCavalcante capo-turned-informant Anthony Rotondo, Gotti attended his father's wake with numerous other Gambino mobsters in a " show of force " and forced boss John Riggi to agree to run his family on the Gambino's behalf.

Gotti's son John Gotti Jr. was initiated into the Gambino family on Christmas Eve 1988.

Gotti was released on $ 100, 000 bail, and was later acquitted at trial.

Based on tapes from FBI bugs played at pretrial hearings the Gambino administration was denied bail and attorneys Bruce Cutler and Gerald Shargel were both disqualified from defending Gotti after determining they had worked as " in-house counsel " for the Gambino organization.

The trial commenced with the prosecution's opening statements on February 12 ; prosecutors Andrew Maloney and John Gleeson began their case by playing tapes showing Gotti discussing Gambino family business, including murders he approved, and confirming the animosity between Gotti and Castellano to establish the former's motive to kill his boss.

After calling an eyewitness of the Sparks hit who identified Gotti associate John Carneglia as one of the men who shot Bilotti they then brought Gravano to testify on March 2.

On April 2, 1992, after only 14 hours of deliberation, the jury found Gotti guilty on all charges of the indictment ( Locasio was found guilty on all but one ).

* June 10 – John Gotti, American gangster ( b. 1940 )

John Joseph Gotti, Jr ( October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002 ) was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.

Identified by eyewitnesses and a police Bergin insider, Gotti was arrested for the killing in June 1974.

The heroin trial of Gotti's former fellow Bergin crewmembers Ruggiero and Gene Gotti also commenced in June of that year.

Irving Domingo Lorenzo, Jr., ( born June 26, 1970 ) better known as Irv Gotti is an American hip hop and R & B record producer and is the head and founder of The Inc record label.

In June 2002, a few days before his brother John's death, Peter Gotti was indicted on federal racketeering charges.

On June 5, 2002, Gotti was indicted on racketeering charges.

As of June 2010, Gotti is currently serving his sentence in at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution ( FCI ) in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

* New York Daily News article dated Tuesday, June 5, 2007 on Page 7 by Dave Goldiner titled: " Try the notoriety at this eatery: It's their special " mentioning John ( Junior ) Gotti and Imette St. Guillen.

On the following morning, the fifth vote of the conclave was taken, and the count had Rampolla with 10 votes, Gotti with two votes, and Sarto with 50 votes.

In the book Underboss, Gravano estimated that Gotti himself had an annual income of not less than $ 5 million during his years as boss, and more likely between $ 10 and $ 12 million.

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* Tabarrini and Gotti, Lettere e documenti del barone Bettino Ricasoli, 10 vols.