Webafter his father was sent to prison, john gotti jr. Stepped into a bigger role of power within the gambino crime family, though he says he was never the boss. Webon june 10, 2002, john gotti, the teflon don, died of throat and mouth cancer at a prison hospital in springfield, mo. He was 61 years old. His brother, peter, took over as boss,. Webdecades have passed since the era when the notorious john j. Gotti strutted around manhattan and the gambino family virtually dominated new york city’s. Webthe rise and fall of the ‘teflon don’. Webthe court case that destroyed john gotti wasn't his own. Gotti's trial got all the headlines but it was the gambino case that caused the biggest problems for the.
