Being a huge mob-buff from reading biographies as well as watching documentaries or movies, there was one thing that stood out to me about John Gotti Sr. John Gotti Sr, as big of a mob figure for the modern era of La Cosa Nostra, was far from your model mobster. There are rules, that I believe protect the integrity of the mafia from within as well as in the eyes of the public. Gotti Sr. was so powerful that he persuaded the commission to have his son, Junior Gotti, become a made guy. In the old days, this would of never been permitted by the Commission since Junior wasn't 100% Italian (his mother was half Italian and Russian Jew). Henry Hill couldn't be made because he was half Irish and half Italian (his mother was Sicilian). So did Gotti evolve the inner workings of the mafia or did he cripple it? Carlo Gambino is rolling in his grave knowing that someone who wasn't full Italian was running the family that shares his name sake.