people knew to stay out of his neighborhood because there would be serious repercussions and hell to pay if caught you.
His presence there, along with the presence of a lot of organized-crime figures in his area, had a colossal impact in that people…were looking for homes to burglarize or people to rob back in that era when crime was extraordinarily high in New York. He threw these massive parties-July 4th parties with fireworks and barbecues. I’d almost say, he was a terrific neighbor in many respects he was also brilliantly public-relations minded. He was sort of a hero to them and he treated them very well. John Gotti was well-liked by his community. How did John Gotti treat most of his neighbors? He tells us why working-class people loved John Gotti, how the Mafia has changed since the 1980s and what it was like for John Gotti Jr. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and died 10 years later, on June 10, 2002, of throat cancer.Ī&E True Crime spoke with one of the people interviewed for the special, Murray Weiss, a veteran journalist who has covered organized crime for over 30 years and who is now at CBS News. In the 1980s the “Dapper Don” was known for avoiding prison time just as much as he was known for his flashy suits and big neighborhood parties.īut his involvement in organized crime eventually came to an end on April 2, 1992, when he was found guilty of 13 counts of racketeering and murder. But these tokens of encouragement were for a mobster: John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family. troops and that protesters carrying signs of support outside the Federal District Court in Brooklyn in 1992 were for a civil-rights activist, unjustly arrested. John Gotti: Why Did the Working Class Love the Mobster So Much?Īn outsider would have thought the yellow ribbons tied around trees in Howard Beach, Queens in 1987 were in support of U.S.
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