He wasn’t the most powerful but he certainly was the most high profile. Most of it was his own doing
It was the media chasing him, not the other way ariound. It was also the FBI, prosecutors, and the police leaking things about him on a daily basis. That was not Gotti's own doing. Maybe you think he was supposed to hide in his home all day and night with the shades drawn.
That's the price of being king of mountain sometimes.
Which is staying in the shadows and ruling things from afar
Buts Gottis ego would never let him do that.
Gotti wanted adulation and acceptance. He enjoyed
His legion of fans. From Anthony Quinn to Anthony the
Cab Driver.
Look at all your great mob bosses in history
Many of them DID NOT WANT TO BE IN THE PUBLIC EYE
They understood the meaning of Omerta
