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John Joseph Gotti, Jr. (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002), commonly known by the media as “The Dapper Don” and “The Teflon Don” after the murder of his former boss Paul Castellano, was the boss of the well known Gambino crime family, one of the Five Families in New York City. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that eventually caused his downfall. In 1992, Gotti was convicted of racketeering, 13 murders, obstruction of justice, hijacking, conspiracy to commit murder, illegal gambling, extortion, tax evasion, loansharking and other crimes and was sentenced to life in prison where he died 10 years later.

Gotti was born to Italian-American parents John Gotti Sr and Philomena “Fannie” Gotti. He was 12 when his family moved to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn where he and his brothers Peter and Richard became part of a local street gang. In the early summer of 1954, while trying to steal a cement mixer, the mixer tipped over, crushing Gotti’s foot, giving him a limp that would last him his life.

In 1962, Gotti married Victoria DeGiorgio. They had five children, Angela (Angel), Victoria, John A. “Junior” Gotti, Peter and Frank. John Gotti did not think very highly of his family, being recorded on video as saying “I took garbage Gotti blood and contaminated it with DiGiorgio blood.” Gotti was also recorded on video as saying to his daughter Victoria “I’m not your father or John’s father or these kids’s grandfather.”

A brutal and short tempered family man, John Gotti used to subject his wife and son to regular beatings. This has been proven by FBI tapes, and later became media fodder for the New York papers.

Gotti’s criminal career with the Gambinos began with fencing stolen goods from Idlewild Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) out of the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, Queens. A truck to JFK’s United Airlines cargo area drove off with $30,000 worth of merchandise. A few days later the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began surveillance on Gotti and Ruggiero and caught them loading more goods, the FBI swooped in and arrested all three men.

In February 1968, United employees identified Gotti as the man who signed for the earlier stolen merchandise. The FBI arrested him for the United hijacking soon after. Two months later, while out on bail, Gotti was arrested a third-time for hijacking–this time stealing a load of cigarettes worth $50,000 on the New Jersey Turnpike. Later that year Gotti pled guilty to the Northwest hijacking and was sentenced to four years at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. Prosecutors dropped the charges for the cigarette hijacking. Gotti also pled guilty to the United hijacking. Gotti spent less than three years at Lewisburg.
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