Johnny was promoted to acting capo even though he wasn't made in 1972
In 1973 him and his whole crew, guys like tony roach, Willie boy, mark caputo, gene gotti, the Carneglia brothers and angie all benefited from waking out mcbratney

In 1977 he got made
and was made Capone at the same time
Btw te ceremony was held up for him to come home

A lot of people thought he was going to be the boss

In 1979 dileionardo aka Mikey Scars had a meet at his fathers house, that was attended by many heavy weights and Paul zacarria pointed at gotti and said "there goes the next boss of our family"