They Called Gotti Untouchable- Until He Said This on a Wire

John Gotti walked out of three federal trials a free man. The FBI threw everything at him — witnesses, wiretaps, conspiracy charges — and he beat them every time. The press called him the Teflon Don. Nothing stuck. But while Gotti was celebrating in public, the FBI planted listening devices in the one place he felt safe. The apartment above the Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy. For months, they recorded everything. Gotti talked constantly. He bragged about murders. He insulted his own underboss, Sammy Gravano. He admitted to crimes on tape. When Sammy heard those recordings, he realized Gotti had been setting him up to take the fall. Three weeks later, Sammy Gravano flipped. He became the highest-ranking mobster ever to cooperate with the federal government. And John Gotti's own voice buried him.