John Gotti: The Man Behind The Mob

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the age of 16 Gotti dropped out of school, and began to model
his life after Anastasia. John got a job with the gang he had earlier
joined, as a debt collector. He was required to bust a lot of heads to
complete his job. This got him noticed by Angelo Bruno, who was a soldier
under none other than Anastasia. John was required to do many odd jobs for
Bruno.(Davis 63-64).
In 1957 Carlo Gambino had Anastasia killed(Davis 72). Gambino took
in Gotti as an apprentice at the age of twenty. John soon married Victoria
DiGiorgio. The two later had four children. He now began to spend his life
in and out of prison which was nothing new to him(Davis 125-126).
In 1977 Gotti got his wish. He was formally inducted into the
Gambino crime family. John was inducted into the family by Neil Dellacroce
under the authorization of "Big" Paul Castellano. Castellano was the new
head of the family after the death of Carlo Gambino. Gotti was appointed
his own crew, the Bergin-Hunt crew. His crew soon ...

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only ones to hear of John's newly acquire position. The state
organized crime task force would also quickly find out about what went on.
They would now place bugs everywhere. Not only was Gotti receiving more
money than ever he was also receiving a lot of unneeded publicity from the
press(Davis 245).
Gotti was from a new breed of Godfathers. He was about to show the
underworld something it had ever seen, nor would ever see again. John
would mix the old styles with new to form his own style. He would take on
the swagger of Anastasia, but double the ruthlessness. Gotti brought out a
business sense that no one could ever compare to. He dressed like
something out of a storybook. The new ...

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