Who Is The Leader Of The Gambino Family

Decent Essays
Jeffrey Zanolini
Mr. Saleeba
English IV
4 October 2017
John Gotti

The leader I have chosen to do is the notorious mob boss of New York and the head of the Gambino family. Born on October 27, 1940, in the South Bronx, New York. He had 12 siblings. His mother Fannie and father Joseph were Italian immigrants who moved often before settling in east New York. By the age of twelve he was working as an errand boy for an underground club in his neighborhood run by Carmine Fatico. Fatico was the captain of the Gambino family one of th largest organized crime families. Through Fatico John met Aniello Dellacroce his lifelong mentor. John became the leader of Fulton-Rockaway boys. The gang was notorious for robberies and car-jackings. When Gotti tried

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