True, but at the end of the day they would've gotten to him anyhow. All the bosses of that era eventually got locked up, even the Chin, the most secretive boss ever..

You could also see it from the other side and say that Gotti at least enjoyed his time on the streets as boss a little more than a guy like Chin, who never went outside a three block radius for the majority of his life while acting out his elaborate nutcase routine..