Mafia Case

Salvatore Gravano or known as "Sammy the Bull" was the underboss to the Gambino crime family. Underboss meaning that he was 2nd in command to the crime family, directly under the boss. He is well known as the man who helped to bring down John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino crime family. Gravano helped planning and executing the death of the then boss, Paul Castellano. With the death of Castellano it lead to Gotti becoming the mob boss, and since Gravano had played such a big part in the death of Castellano he was moved up to the ranking of underboss. Gravano soon became the informant to the FBI and ratted out on John Gotti, leading the arrest of John Gotti. With Gravano testify not only did it take down Gotti, but 36 other men involved in the Gambino crime family. Gotti was left with multiple life sentences and no chance of parol. Gravano claimed he would of never testified if it weren't for wire tapings he heard on Gotti dising him. With his cooperation with the law, Gravano got a 5 year sentence and was put in the witness protection program upon his release. Gravano begged the judge to give him another sentence because he was afraid to come out of jail, even in the witness protection program he felt he would still be harmed and people were certaintly looking for him. Gotti ended up dieing of throat cancer on June 10,2002 at the US medical center for federal prisoners in Missouri.