Tishman, Donald Trump, all these guys - they couldn't build a building without me.' 'You want concrete poured in Manhattan? That was me. 'I literally controlled Manhattan, literally,' he said, in an 1998 interview with The Atlantic. Gravano rose through the ranks, owning and running bars and construction companies as fronts for his money laundering, loan sharking and extortion. One of the bosses is said to have remarked that the boy 'fought like a bull', and the nickname stuck. Growing up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn, he caught the eye of mafia bosses as a child, when his bicycle was stolen and he beat up several children at once. Pictured: Gravano shares a meal with his son Gerald and daughter Karen in documentary footage And it woke me up because I said, "What the f- are you doing? They're legitimate people." And I left.' What if they didn’t have a dad? You think this is gonna end good for you?” He was, I think, petrified. ' "Bro, are you a good dad to your kids?. I'm the guy that your f***ing are not allowed to play with,"' Gravano recalled.
'I said, ''Is your husband home? I'm Sammy the Bull. Once her powerful dad heard about this, he stormed to the neighbor's house and confronted the child's parents. 'One of the kids told my brother that we weren't allowed to come in the house because of who my father was.' 'Then there's me, the gangster's daughter,' she said. Gravano, an underboss in the Gambino family, was once the highest-ranking member of New York's Five Families to ever 'flip,' and he testified in court against Gotti, pictured in Brooklyn, New York, in 1990ĭuring the two-hour special, Karen Gravano detailed how she gradually discovered her father was a gangster after the family moved into a new neighborhood, and she was ostracized from her professional, upper echelon neighbors. I lived a family life, and I'm a gangster.'
He laughed, adding: 'I lived a double life. 'What do you want me to do? Come home, sit down at the table and say, "Hey, you know who I killed today? Joe Blow. Gravano said he tried to shield his bloodthirsty and ruthless day job from his wife and two kids. This isn't somebody talking about the mafia. 'And they could shoot you in the f***ing head. 'They could hug you, they could kiss you, they could smile,' he said. Reflecting on his colorful life, Gravano shared how friendly business partnerships could end with the pull of a trigger the moment things turned sour. He entered the witness protection system in Arizona following his release but asked to be removed a year later, so he could give interviews and write his 1997 book, 'Underboss.' In exchange for acting as a government informant, Gravano was given a five-year sentence in 1994, but released after one year later because of time previously served.
The so-called 'five families' represented New York City's top Italian-American mafia groups. He even testified in court against Gotti. Salvatore Gravano, an underboss in the Gambino family, was once the highest-ranking member of New York's Five Families - Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese - to ever 'flip' and become an informant. His daughter, Karen Gravano, 49, told the network that her father's mafia betrayal 'stabbed me in the heart.' Karen herself has starred in VH1's 'Mob Wives' and written a best-selling book called 'Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!' 'Being a gangster, actually in my life, was a curse. 'Is there anything that I feel I regret and that I would do differently? Of course,' Gravano told ABC News in an exclusive interview for 'Truth and Lies: The Last Gangster,' which premiers Thursday night. He throughout his career admitted to killing 19 people - including his best friend - as his victims' families bemoaned a lack of justice. Salvatore Gravano was a high-ranking mafioso who arranged and carried out murders for Gotti in the 1980s before secretly partnering with the FBI in 1991 and helping bring down 39 mobsters - including Gotti, head of the Gambino crime family. But now, as a 76-year-old bald grandpa, Sammy The Bull has regrets about the life he lived and the people he killed. He once was a notorious, merciless mobster who helped take down John Gotti's crime empire in New York City.
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