Who is John Gotti?

John Gotti was an Italian-American criminal and the leader of one of the most prominent mafia groups in the United States. He is continually involved in murders, murder plots, loan sharking, heroin peddling, racketeering, obstruction of justice, illicit gambling, and other criminal activities.

Early Life

John Gotti was born as John Joseph Gotti Jr on October 27, 1940, in the South Bronx, New York, United States of America, under the sign of Scorpio. He would be 79 years old if he were still alive. Philomena Gotti (mother) and John Joseph Gotti Sr. are his parents (father). He was the sixth of the family’s thirteen children. While his father, John Sr, used to raise such a large family on a poor day laborer’s pay. John was of Italian-American descent and came from a diverse ethnic background. He also attended Franklin K Lane High School in New York City, New York, but dropped out at the age of 16.

Career

Following his association with Carmine Fatico, John Gotti embarked on a full-fledged criminal career.
He was detained by the FBI in 1968 for the United hijacking.
He spent the next year and a half at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.
In 1972, he was promoted to acting capo of the Bergin crew.
Fatico hired John and his brother Ruggiero to work at the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club.
In 1973, he was arrested for killing Irish-American criminal James McBratney with a squad sent to him, and he was sentenced to four years in prison.
After being released on bail, John was caught again for a hijacking on the New Jersey Turnpike.
In 1977, he became the capo of the Bergin Crew and initiated it into the Gambino family after his parole.
In 1984, John Gotti got into a fight with a refrigerator mechanic named Romual Piecyk, and the police charged him with assault and robbery.
At the same time, he was appointed as the Gambino family’s acting boss.
In 1986, he was formally installed as the Gambino family’s new patriarch.
Following evidence of his involvement in intimidation in the Piecyk case in 1985, John’s bail was withdrawn and he was placed in jail.
He was cleared of all charges in 1987, and his co-defendants were also released.
John was arrested for murder in 1992, when the FBI turned Gotti’s conviction into an organized crime campaign.
In 1999, he was sentenced to life in prison and transferred to a federal prison in Marion, Illinois.
Gotti was imprisoned until 2002, where he was assaulted by fellow inmate Walter Johnson.

Net Worth

At the time of his death, John Gotti was reported to have a net worth of roughly $10 million. He made his fortune as the boss of the Gambino Crime Family and through extortion, abduction, gambling, hijacking, racketeering, and loan sharking, among other crimes.

After the birth of their first daughter, Angel, in 1962, John married his wife Victoria DiGiorgio. Victoria, John, Frank, and Peter were their four further children. Frank, their 12-year-old son, was killed in a car accident. They used to argue continuously in the early years of their marriage, and they were divorced several times. For the sake of his family, John worked as a presser in a coat factory and subsequently as a truck driver’s assistant.

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John Gotti Net Worth:
$10 million

Estimated Net Worth in 2021	$10 million
Previous Year’s Net Worth (2020)	$9.4 million
Annual Salary	Under Review.
Income Source	Mafia
Net Worth Verification Status	Not Verified

Death

John Gotti died of throat cancer on June 10, 2002, at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. With 200 friends and family members in attendance, his family held a funeral service at a funeral home in Queens. Following the brief service, a convoy of 75 limos went past Gotti’s neighborhood haunts as 200-300 people looked on, and he was buried next to his son Frank’s tomb.