![]() ![]() “If looks could kill, I would have been dead on that elevator. I get on, push the button, elevator starts to move and I turn to John and say, “Where’s Sammy? What, is he a rat?’ Now I’m being the funny guy,” DePaul said. We get on the elevator and he was just head down, wasn’t saying anything to me. John was as quiet as a church mouse - which was very unusual for John. “One day, I came upstairs and there was no Sammy Gravano. “I have him back in my car, and I go around to take him out of the back, and what’s sitting on the seat? The tie - he held up on his end of the deal,” said DePaul, who said he stuffed the tie back in Gotti’s pocket.ĭePaul was there for the dramatic moment Gotti realized he was betrayed by Gravano, who turned government witness and helped take down his best friend and the Gambinos. Sure enough, the judge sprang Johnny Boy. “So I look at him and he’s got a $300 tie on, and I say, ‘I bet you your tie that you get out today.’ ” “So I go pick him up, and on the way over to court he says, ‘What do you think the judge’s going to do? He’s not going to let me out.’ I said, ‘No John, he’s going to be in a good mood today he’s going to let you out of solitary and back into general population.’ Gotti took his food seriously, but often showed a lighter side to DePaul.Īfter Gotti got in a fight at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, he was thrown in solitary confinement and needed a judge’s permission in order to get out. “He was dead serious about it,” continued DePaul, who refused to help the mobster out of his pickle. Bring back some sandwiches,’ ” DePaul told The Post. It was a tough job: guarding against the mobster’s escape and protecting him from hit men - and, in Gotti’s mind at least - hunger pangs. John Gotti’s right-hand man during his two-month murder and racketeering trial in 1992 was US Marshal Lenny DePaul, who cuffed the Dapper Don daily and escorted him from the slammer to the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Legal hits: John Gotti's grandson to make professional boxing debut in October Reality TV star arrested after brawl with rapper in Mayweather-Gotti chaosĭapper Donald: Ex-prosecutor likens Trump to mob boss John Gotti in new book John Gotti III gets boxing suspension after wild Floyd Mayweather brawl ![]()
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