I might catch a lot of shit for this but I think Gotti was the luckiest mobster of all time. he wasnt an earner, he wasnt much of a hitter, he was a degenerate gambler but he was well liked by two of the most influential people in his family(Fatico and Neil). a few of the guys around him seemed to do well(Sal Ruggerio, Gene) but Gotti himself never seemed like much of a money maker. I'll give credit where credit is due tho, he managed to get all the right people together and made the power move of all power moves. he also convinced enough of the guys to accept him as boss so it wasnt all luck but Im convinced a lot of it was.


way off topic but if Castellano had never gone to Sparks that faithful night and Gotti could have somehow bided his time until Paul went away during the Commission trial and survived, that would have made for some very interesting power grabs.

but Ive always thought that had Paul survived that Paul would have flipped.