John Gotti had to pay protection when he was in prison. He refused at first then he got slapped around a little bit, then he paid. If John gotti pays, everybody pays.
maybe they pays bodyguards in west coast prisons but not in the east, in new york and other eastern cities they pays nothing
Gotti was paying protection at Marion, which is in Illinois. It's technically the midwest, but it's closer to New York than California.
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