You guys are deluding yourselves if you think the feds wouldn't have welcomed Gotti into their camp with open arms. He would have been the first major mafia boss to flip and it would have been a much bigger victory than sending him to prison for life.
They took Massino after Vitale flipped. That's all that needs to be said.
Gotti was more than a decade before Massino though, and alot more important. Especially because of his celebrity persona, the FBI wanted to get him more than the other bosses.
This is mostly speculation though neither of us can say that Gotti was offered a deal or not, and we'll never know.
