I have some answers for you.
1-When he was an associate in the Gambino Family he used to act like a made man when in fact he wasn`t but he get respect from the made guys and was somehow feared by some of them, he was an acting caporegime without being even Made!!!Of course, Niell Dellacroce stood up for him, he was the son he always wanted to have, that`s why John Gotti could afford to act like that.
2-He wasn`t even made and met face to face Carlo Gambino, sometimes is almost impossible for a soldier to meet the boss, and somehow John Gotti got it, it seemed he was a kind of promise for the Mafia in the future. Carlo Gambino told John Gotti to read Nicholas Machiavelli`s The Prince
and taugh him with this quote "You have to be like a lion and a fox. The lion scares the wolves away, the fox discovers the traps. If you are a lion and a fox nobody can defeat you"
3-He made a plot against Paul Castellano called "The Fist", with Sammy Gravano, Frank DeCicco, Angelo Ruggiero and others. John Gotti was the brave one to give a step foward before anyone else, and he won.
4-He beated 3 trials against him, in one of them he embarrased the prosecutor Diane Giaccalone(That`s my favourite part).
5-He became famous for beating trials(buying the juror, threating them, because he had good lawyers like Bruce Cutler and Jerry Shargel, whatever it doesn`t matter) and made his case a circus for the media trying to manipulate it(he tought the media was a weapon, this is how he got fans), he became the Dapper Don, The Teflon Don, The Mob Star.
6-He was well dressed, nice smile, he always shook hands with whoever wanted to say hello to him in the streets, he was nice with the reporters and gave them sarcastics answers like "Of course, I am the boss of my family, my wife and kids"
7-Since his early young days he made a July 4th party for the neighbors with fireworks.One day now being known as he was embarrased the NYPD daring to make the fireworks working.I don`t recall wich year.
8-Many celebrities wanted to meet him.
9-The people found him as the American hero, a person compared him with an american football team "New York has two champions, ****(I don`t remember the name) and John Gotti
10-In his 4th trail as a Don he lost being rated by Sammy Gravano, but the people supported him anyway saying "Gravano is a liar" "Sammy the rat", etc
11-There was a page created by Melissa Ravenna claiming for John Gotti`s freedom.
12-He never rated on anyone he faced the life sentence as a man, as a real mafioso, he was Cosa Nostra until he died, he was good on his promise "I am gonna be Cosa Nostra till I die"
13-Many people all over the world sent him letters.
14-When he died in 2002 he had one of the most popular funerals ever, John Gotti is loved even after dead right or wrong
15-You are asking about him.
16-As if all these answers were not enought, I am gonna tell you one more thing. He had 5 children, one of them, Victoria Gotti, a beautiful Mafia princess, in my opinion one of the most beautiful in the world. I guess he was a good beautiful daughter maker!
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