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Salvatore “The Bull” Gravano

"I was the underboss of the Gambino Organized Crime Family," said
salvatore Gravano when he took the witness stand at the trial of his
Mafia boss, John Gotti. "John was the boss; I was the underboss. John
barked and I bit." For pointing a finger at Gotti and the murder's
committed by the other mobsters from the witness stand, Gravano earned his
freedom last year after serving less than five years in prison. His latest
testimony came March fourth and March fifth nineteen ninety six at a mental
competency hearing for Genovese family crime boss Vincent (The Chin)
Gigante. Gravano says he speaks nothing but the truth from now on , but
the mean gangster talked a much different story back in ...

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put away 36 fellow
mobsters. Among these 36 men one really stuck out. That man was Gambino
crime boss John "The Teflon Don" Gotti. The feds have been after Gotti
since he orchestrated the hit on former boss Paul Castellano also known as
"Big Pauly". That’s when John Gotti came into power. Gotti and the Bull
were responsible for over twenty-six murders . Gravano confessed to as
many as nineteen of those twenty-six murders including the one of his
brother-in-law. In return for turning his back on the oath he once believed
in , he had his sentenced reduced to five years in a federal penitentiary.
Gotti was found guilty not of the actual murders but of ordering the
murders. Gotti is currently serving a life sentence in Marion Federal
Penitentiary in Illinois without the possibility of parole. It is said
that Gotti was secretly running the Gambino crime family from within ...

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Added: 3/16/2008 02:40:52 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
Words: 355
Pages: 2

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