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Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is an American former mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Gambino crime family. As the underboss, Gravano played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti , the crime family's boss , by agreeing to testify as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a deal in ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Underboss Salvatore “Sammy” Gravano, better known as “Sammy The Bull,” aided the infamous “Teflon Don,” as he was called, in his ascent to power. But he also sealed his downfall by cooperating...
Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is an American gangster who became the underboss of the Gambino crime family. This is his story. Directed by James Carroll. Original...
Known by most as “Sammy The Bull”, Salvatore Gravano was born on March 12th, 1945 in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood with a predominantly Italian-American population to Gerry and Kay Gravano, both of whom hailed from Sicily. Gravano fell into crime at an early age.
Oct 23, 2023 · Salvatore “Sammy The Bull” Gravano was just 13 when he earned his nickname and the attention/invite from a local gang following a street altercation near his home in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Jan 27, 2022 · Sammy "The Bull" Gravano was a notorious gangster for the Gambino family. ABC. Gravano said he tried to keep his son Gerard and daughter Karen in the dark about his criminal activities, but the Cosa Nostra life touched them nonetheless.
Aug 25, 2023 · Known as "Sammy The Bull," Salvatore Gravano killed at least 19 people as a hitman in the Gambino crime family before becoming an FBI informant. Somehow, he's managed to elude getting whacked for over 25 years since breaking the Mafia's cardinal rule.
May 3, 2022 · The Incredible, True Story of How the Government Turned Sammy Gravano, Gambino Family Underboss, Into a Cooperating Witness. John Gleeson was a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn getting ready to put John Gotti back on trial, when he got a phone call that would change everything about the case. May 3, 2022 By John Gleeson.
After his bike was stolen around the age of ten, a group of mobsters remarked how Sammy fought “like a bull” while taking on several larger kids at once, earning him the nickname “The Bull”. After dropping out of school and completing two years in the military, Gravano drifted into the mafia.
Apr 30, 2022 · Once closely-connected mobsters, Sammy “the Bull” Gravano (left) turned on Gambino crime family chief John Gotti (right) to help prosecutors finally put the organized-crime boss behind bars.
