Junior Gotti
| John A. Gotti | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Angelo Gotti February 14, 1964 Queens, New York |
| Residence | Oyster Bay Cove, New York |
| Other names | Junior Gotti, Teflon Jr. |
| Spouse(s) | Kimberly Albanese |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) |
John J. Gotti Victoria DiGiorgio |
| Family | Frank Gotti, Peter Gotti, Victoria Gotti,(siblings) |
John Angelo Gotti (born February 14, 1964) known as "Junior" Gotti, is a former New York City mobster who, according to law enforcement claims, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family from 1992 to 1999 after his father, John J. Gotti, was sent to prison. Between 2004 and 2009 Gotti was a defendant in four racketeering trials which all ended in mistrials. In January 2010, federal prosecutors announced that they would no longer seek to prosecute Gotti for those charges. He has been referred to as "Teflon Jr." for evading conviction like his father.
Gotti is one of four children born to an Italian American mobster, John Joseph Gotti Jr. and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti, whose father was of Italian descent, and mother was of Russian-Jewish ancestry. He grew up in the Italian-American neighborhood of Howard Beach, a section of Queens, New York. He attended New York Military Academy as a member of the Class of 1983 but did not graduate.
He has his sister, Victoria and two brothers, Peter and Frank (deceased).
After leaving the school, Gotti's father helped him start a trucking business, Samson Trucking Company and after the business failed, helped him get a position in the Carpenters Union.
According to federal prosecutors, Gotti was inducted into the Gambino crime family in 1988. He was named a caporegime (captain) in 1990, and is believed to be the youngest capo in the Gambino family's history.
In April 1992, his father, John J. Gotti, received a life sentence for racketeering and related offenses. Prosecutors say he made his son the head of family operations with a committee of captains to assist him. As a family member, he was one of the few people allowed to visit his father and Gotti is believed to have relayed his father's orders to the organization from prison.
Remembering how his father had been brought down by FBI bugs, Gotti adopted a more secretive way of doing business. He discussed mob business mainly through "walk-talks," or conversations held while walking alongside trusted capos. He also tried to pose as a legitimate businessman. However, several of his button men didn't think much of him, thinking he was incompetent. He was not nearly as good a negotiator as his father had been, and the Gambinos lost out on several disputes with the other families. The Genovese family was so unimpressed with Gotti that it refused to deal with him at all.
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