Whatever Happened To: The Teflon Don, The Dapper Don

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The Teflon Don, The Dapper Don then

Real Name:	John Gotti
A.k.a:	The Teflon Don, The Dapper Don
Category:	Infamy
Submitted by:	Stunt Pope
Posted Date:	2002-01-11
Last Modified:	2003-12-02
Views:	42979

He was perhaps the last of the big, time "glamourous" mobsters. Capturing the public and media attention as be flitted through court case after court case without any of the charges sticking.

Where are they now?

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His luck ran out in 1992 when he was convicted of RICO charges in a Brooklyn court where he got life in prison without parole.

He spends 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. We was transferred to a hospital unit for awhile in 1998 to undergo treatment for throat cancer and was them moved back to solitary. He died in prison in 2002.