Never heard of anyone doing it, or it even being effective, but it was clearly to mask their fingerprints, being the genius criminal I am sure he is lol...

Speaking of, who was it that made the 'free Gotti' rap song back in the day? A Google search returned 'The Pizza Connection' headed by what appears to be Sal the Stockbroker of Howard Stern fame, but I swear I had read in a book somewhere that a made guy, or associate had done something similar in their youth (was he in this band maybe?)...who the f was it??

Also (blushing) I myself wrote about 50 pages of an (amateur of course) screenplay based on DeMeo and Co's exploits (well done, it would be a phenomenal mob story) before abandoning it...good luck to him!

Edit: I hate old age! 33 and memory is slipping bad! The rapper I was thinking of was Louis Ferrante, talked about it in his book (which was boring as hell imo) So, the 'real' gangster rap trend continues!

I can't find a link to the song though...anyone?