Paul Castellano: Last News

They were the shots heard around the underworld. It has been 35 years this week since the most brazen mob hit, rivaling the Valentine's Day Massacre, and the most daring since the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, took place on a New York City sidewalk.

Netflix documentary Get Getti about infamous New York mafia boss John Gotti.The three-part documentary is streaming now on the platform, and “chronicles Gotti’s meteoric rise and crashing fall” from “the very mouths of those who brought him down”, per an official description.A more detailed synopsis adds: “It’s 1985 and John Gotti is the most powerful man in New York; he’s also the most surveilled. His public execution of ‘Boss of Bosses’ Paul Castellano sets in motion a series of events that catapults the young mobster to the helm of America’s most powerful mafia family.“As the tentacles of Gotti’s criminal enterprise extend deep into the heart of the city, law enforcement and state prosecutors scramble for their chance to bring the charismatic Godfather to his knees.”On social media, fans have been reacting to the series.

New York mobster played on a public persona for the camera when he was secretly a tyrant in private.Gotti, who was nicknamed the “Dapper Don” due to his style, was described as the first “media don” as he portrayed a friendly manner to the public and cameras.However, according to testimony from former mobsters who helped finally put him behind bars, Gotti was a trigger happy tyrant.Gotti’s flashy mentality also drew him resentment and hospitality from other crime families in the area as he regularly posed for newspaper photographs like he was a celebrity.He assumed command of the Gambino family after previous boss Paul Castellano was killed, which Gotti was linked to.Gotti took hold of the family when it had 23 active crews, about 300 members and more than 2,000 associates with an estimated $500 million a year made, according to website Biography.He ran the Gambino crime family during the late 1980s to the early 1990s and was dubbed "Teflon Don" due to charges never sticking until his world came crashing down with an FBI investigation.The audio tapes were ultimately what led to Gotti’s downfall with the evidence the FBI had on him, which included wiretaps of the Ravenite Social Club he regularly visited, being very incriminating.It also showed Gotti in a different light to what the public saw with one tape revealing a threat to one of his members for not returning his calls.According to the New York Times, Gotti said: “'Listen, I called your (expletive deleted) house five times yesterday; now if your wife thinks you are a (expletive deleted) dunsky or if she's a (expletive deleted) dunsky and you're gonna disregard my (expletive deleted) phone calls, I'll blow you and that (expletive deleted) house up.''The tapes also

Nine days before Christmas 1985, feared Mafia Godfather Paul Castellano arrived for a meeting over dinner at Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan.