Named after his father, John Joseph Gotti was born in the Bronx in New York on October 27, 1940. The son of a construction worker, he had five brothers. The Gotti family moved to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, when John was in the fourth grade. Already...

John Gotti October 27, 1940 June 10, 2002 AKA: The Teflon Don Mobster The Mafia is a secret organization of criminals who may control gambling, drug sales, and other illegal activities in a city or area. The Italian Mafia in the United States is...

Known as the "Teflon Don" for his ability to win acquittal during several criminal trials and as the "Dapper Don" for his penchant for expensive, custom-tailored suits, John Gotti was the most visible organized crime figure...

John Gotti Born: October 27, 1940 John Gotti graduated from a youth gang and moved quickly through the ranks of the Mafia. Fond of wearing $1,800 suits and hand-painted ties, he became a powerful don (Mafia leader) at a relatively young age. He seemed...

John Joseph Gotti, Jr. (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002), commonly known as John Gotti, also nicknamed by the media as The Dapper Don and The Teflon Don, was a boss of the Gambino Crime Family, one of the Five Families in New York City. He became...

It was a hot July day, and I was lazily sipping iced coffee when I picked up the phone to hear my mother fighting back tears. Her moment had come. She’d gotten jury duty. When my mom—a law-abiding, Annie Hall–turns-savvy-business-woman type—was chosen to be on...

A federal appeals court upheld Peter Gotti's 25-year prison sentence for ordering a failed hit on Mafia turncoat Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, whose testimony doomed Gotti's mob boss brother John to die behind bars.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision dated...

The bosses of New York's five Mafia families discussed killing Rudy Giuliani in 1986 when he was a mob-busting federal prosecutor, according to testimony Wednesday in the murder trial of a former FBI agent.The details about the plot — which never took shape — were...

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani joked Thursday about reports that New York's five Mafia families discussed, but decided against, killing him in 1986 when he was a mob-busting federal prosecutor."That was one vote I won, I guess," Giuliani said Thursday on Mike Gallagher's syndicated radio...

This biography of John Gotti reveals his background, his rise to power in the Gambino Crime Family, the development of his reputation as the "Teflon Don," and his eventual arrest and conviction in 1990. Despite his life of crime, Gotti had many supporters, particularly in the wake of his conviction and at his funeral in 2002, and is still widely remembered.

John Joseph Gotti, Jr. was born on October 27, 1940. He was the fifth child of eleven children. By the time Gotti was twelve, he and his brothers Peter and Richard, became involved in illegal street activities for the local mobsters. Gotti eventually quit school at the age of sixteen and joined the Fulton-Rockaway Boys - a teenage gang named after an intersection in Brooklyn. Gotti became the leader of the gang, but unlike other gangs, was not concerned about territory. His gang was mostly into higher level