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	Sammy Gravano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) was underboss of the criminal Gambino family in the 1980s under John Gotti.
		Gravano, who confessed to taking part in nineteen murders, was convicted of a token racketeering charge and sentenced to five years.
		Gravano was convicted in October 2002 and is currently serving a 19-year sentence in Colorado at a supermax prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sammy_Gravano (637 words)

	Salvatore Sammy The Bull Gravano
		Gravano consults with Frank DeCicco, a member of the Gambino family who is respected by both factions, and the two agree to side with Ruggiero and Gotti and to wait how they will do as the new leadership, to possibly remove them after one year.
		Gravano claims that the murder was ordered by Vincent "The Chin" Gigante and Anthony "Gas Pipe" Casso with the knowledge of members of the Castellano faction inside the Gambino family.
		Gravano himself is convicted but by the time of the writing of the book he is already released from prison and has also left the witness protection program.
	www.organized-crime.de /revmaa01sammygravano.htm (1573 words)

	Sammy Gravano
		They were talking about Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, John Gotti's underboss in the Gambino crime family.
		Gravano confessed his guilt to a mere 19 murders.
		The new Gravano was described as a man with a legit job, determined to start a new life.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/gravano.html (690 words)

	Sammy Bull Backing His Old Crew
		Gravano’s prosecution star faded after he was nailed for dealing drugs in February 2000, drawing a sentence of 20 years.
		But Gravano was recently interviewed by lawyers for Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro, a pal from Sammy Bull’s mob days charged with accepting an assignment to avenge the family by rubbing out The Bull.
		In Gravano’s interview with Carbonaro’s lawyers, which was attended by his New York attorney Anthony Ricco, sources say Sammy Bull emphatically declared that Big Lou Vallario (left) had nothing to do with a 1989 plot to kill Staten Island businessman Fred Weiss for John Gotti.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column348.htm (1121 words)

	All about Sammy The Bull Gravano - The Crime library
		Gravano would have everyone believe that he was being a dedicated soldier in a "society" that had honor at the center of it.
		Gravano is given a golden opportunity to describe his life in the terms he chooses.
		Gravano responds, "What else could I do?" He talks about how "heartbroken" he was when his parents had to sell the home they loved to help out his sister while Sammy has plenty of money.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/gravano/index_1.html (974 words)

	Sammy Gravano
		Sammy Gravano is one of the rare Mafia figures to have broken the "Omertà", the code of silence.
		It was Gravano's damning testimony that led to the Dapper Don's downfall, and that same testimony dealt a fatal blow to organized crime in general.
		Gravano betrayed age old Mafia secrets, divulging all the secret codes of the Cosa Nostra, in exchanged for a reduced sentence, and being placed in the witness protection program.
	www.gambinofamily.com /sammy_gravano.htm (323 words)

	Informers
		Gravano himself is a reminder of the dynamic of the New Mafia Order in more ways than one - here we have a rat who has, himself, been ratted out and now faces charges that reflect the mob's descent into a drug trade it had once considered beneath it.
		Gravano, his son, Gerard, and Michael Papa, 24, the head of a white supremacist gang known as the Devil Dogs, were indicted in Brooklyn Federal Court on charges of connection with a nationwide Ecstasy syndicate.
		Gravano expressed his intent to kill the lawyer because he was angry with him due to the litigation against Gravano brought by his victims survivors, said Conrad.
	kiss206756.tripod.com /genovesecrimefamily/id14.html (4772 words)

	Sammy Gravano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sammy The Bull", said Gotti had been involved in 10 murders and told how in 1985, outside a Manhattan steakhouse, he and Gotti had...
		Sammy The Bull, was a mobster who turned on John Gotti, from The Crime Library...
		Gravano), the one-time underboss of the Gambino family and allegedly the head of La Cosa Nostra in the...
	www.jolt12.co.uk /sammy_gravano.html (336 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 244
		Gravano’s sexual appetite was said to have been fueled by the enormous amounts of anabolic steroids the hitman used to bulk up his diminutive frame.
		Gravano is now said to be in poor health and has lost a lot of weight and his hair.
		Sammy Gravano’s betrayal of ‘la Cosa Nostra’ seems to indicate he did not fear the eternal flames for breaking his vow, nor does the casual manner in which he dispatched at least 19 people seem to indicate he feared Hell as a consequence for those acts of his will.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_246.html (1137 words)

	Organized Crime & Most Wanted Mafia Stories
		Gravano, already serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiracy--distribution of Ecstasy drugs was charged in 2003 by New Jersey authorities for the March 14, 1980 brutal murder of NYPD Detective Peter Calabro.
		Gravano's lawyer, Anthony Ricco, accused the officer who tape-recorded Garcia's statement of manipulating the convict to modify his memory of words such as substituting the word 'whacked' for the word "killed".
		Sammy Gravano was coddled by a justice system that placed a greater value on nailing Gotti for racketeering and conspiracy than someone like Gravano who stole many lives thats been documented on record but insiders say there are more victims never revealed in court.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /Walker/Gravano.html (6104 words)

	Gravano
		"I was the underboss of the Gambino Organized Crime Family," said Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano when he took the witness stand at the murder and racketeering trial of John Gotti and became the first Mafia underboss to testify against his boss.
		When you go out on a piece of work it doesn't matter what position you're in." The only time Gravano "was the shooter" was on Feb. 28, 1970, when 5-foot-5 Sammy Bull made his bones in a Mafia love story.
		Freed in March 1995, Gravano seemed to be doing quite well for himself, especially in April 1997, when he appeared on ABC TV with Diane Sawyer on two consecutive nights to promote a book about his life that was written by Peter Maas.
	www.ganglandnews.com /gravano.htm (376 words)

	CNN - Former Mafia hitman fingers 'The Chin' - July 10, 1997
		Gravano said he often attended meetings of the five mob families in the New York area at which disputes were settled and "hits," or murders, were discussed.
		Gravano confessed to 19 murders as part of a 1991 deal with the government to testify against reputed mobsters for at least two years.
		Gravano reportedly was reluctant to testify because he was concerned about possible questions about payment for his book, which he wrote in collaboration with author Peter Maas.
	www.cnn.com /US/9707/10/gigante (644 words)

	Salvatore Gravano Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		In March of 1992, Gravano made history as the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America to break the oath of silence and testify against organized crime members.
		For his decision to approach the government and turn witness, Gravano, who admitted to playing a role in 19 gang-style murders, was sentenced to five years in prison with time served.
		Gravano was freed from prison in March of 1995.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/salvatore-gravano-cri (275 words)

	1981: Mob murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Gravano explained, the murder was not part of the war for power that erupted in 1980 with the gangland slaying of low-key Philly crime boss Angelo Bruno.
		Gravano left the witness protection program not long after and, for almost three years now, has been living in Arizona, where he runs a construction business that employs a few dozen people who are well aware of who he is.
		Sammy the Bull said in an interview in Arizona that he was well aware some young mobster trying to make a name for himself might try to fulfill the contract reportedly out on his life for squealing about Gotti.
	www.capitalcentury.com /1981.html (1657 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - Gambino Chronicles, 1980-2002
		Sammy went to John saying Louie was talking about him behind his back, which was a lie.
		He knows it was a story Sammy was telling him that DB was not knocking John behind his back, that is the story they went in with, I believe, and that Sammy just wanted to take control of the union.
		Sammy looks like he robbed the job from him, took a job right out from under [Deleted] who was one of the Irish guys.
	www.onewal.com /nw-dileo2.html (7566 words)

	Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
		Sammy's run with the mob came to an end on the evening of December 11, 1990 when the FBI arrested him and his bosses, John Gotti and Frank Locascio.
		Sammy says that he would have never testified for the prosecution if he had not heard heard wiretaps of Gotti dissing him.
		Sammy said that his goal was to create a business that he could pass on to his children and grandchildren.
	www.doney.net /aroundaz/celebrity/gravano_sammy.htm (601 words)

	Sammy 'The Bull' Accused of Trying to Kill Lawyer
		"Gravano expressed his intent to kill the lawyer because he was angry with him due to the litigation against Gravano brought by his victims' survivors," said Donald Conrad, an assistant attorney general, in a motion filed in court.
		The state made a deal with Gravano under which he testified against Gambino crime family head John Gotti, who thanks in part to that testimony is now in jail for life.
		Gravano is in jail on $5 million bond for allegedly helping run and financing a large, multimillion dollar criminal syndicate that peddled Ecstasy to Arizona youths.
	www.crimelynx.com /sammy1.html (517 words)

	'Sammy Bull' Trial Lifts Veil On Israelis in Ecstasy Trade [Free Republic]
		Sammy "the Bull" Gravano was back in Brooklyn last week, appearing in the same federal courthouse where he became a household name in the late 1980s.
		Gravano, the highest-ranking mob turncoat in the history of American organized crime, settled down after the trial to a new life in Arizona, courtesy of the Federal Witness Protection Program.
		Gravano's supplier, according to court papers, was an Israeli citizen named Ilan Zarger, who has pleaded guilty to flooding several American cities with ecstasy pills during a three-year period.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a6765346a14.htm (1530 words)

	The Hitman Returns MAXIM ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Throughout this period, Sammy Gravano continued warm relationships with his contacts in the federal government, many of whom made it a practice to drop by whenever they were in Arizona.
		Gravano’s family, Mike Papa, and Jovan Isailovic were released on bond, but Sammy himself fell into the hands of Maricopa County’s famed Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America.” Sheriff Joe dresses his inmates in lipstick-pink boxer shorts, which, he says, curtails their macho tendencies.
		Sammy Gravano’s state trial on 181 counts of conspiracy, drug distribution, and running a criminal enterprise is scheduled to begin June 4.
	www.maximonline.com /articles/index.aspx?a_id=4010 (4706 words)

	Booknotes
		He was Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second in command of the Gambino organized crime family, the most powerful in the nation.
		Gravano's testimony would eventually lead to the convictions, guilty pleas or extended prison terms of dozens of key Cosa Nostra figures-including Gotti as well as key union officials involved in labor racketeering.
		In UNDERBOSS: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia, Peter Maas, bestselling author of The Valachi Papers and Serpico, chronicles the gangster life of Sammy Gravano—a participant in almost every key event of the modern Cosa Nostra.
	www.booknotes.org /Program/?ProgramID=1376 (452 words)

	SAMMY THE BULL
		Sammy was born in the mid-1940's to Gerardo and Katarina Gravano of Brooklyn.
		After Sammy failed eighth grade, he was sent to a special school for kids with learning problems, but he didn't like it and dropped out of school the next year.
		Sammy was tested when he was told about the impending murder of his brother-in-law Nicky Scibetta for dealing and taking drugs.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /john/johnbull.htm (700 words)

	Sammy the Rat
		Gravano had the killer background that Gotti admired and also had connections in the construction industry that could make new areas of income for the Gambino Family.
		Sammy was also noted for having a quick retirement program for any of his partners that got in his way or attempted rip him off.
		Sammy expressed the view that he had been a good, loyal, soldier an when John barked he did the biting.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/35600 (634 words)

	Articles by Jana Bommersbach for Phoenix Magazine
		When Sammy was finally busted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, he said the reason he went back into crime was to get closer to his son - that his sin was a father's misguided love.
		Sammy even found a bug at his home one day, and before he ripped it out of the wall, police recorded a stream of vulgarities and then heard him singing in Italian.
		Gravano's perspective, when he finds out what Gerard is involved in, he's thinking, 'I'm going to get more involved with my son, do some big deals and then get out.' Nobody's disputing it wasn't the right move, but he took the plea for his son," Parzych says.
	www.janabommersbach.com /pm-fea-may03.htm (5282 words)

	Sammy Bull Displays His Old Bravado As He Faces Charges of Murdering Officer - June 9, 2005 - The New York Sun
		He is bald and pale as a ghost, but Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano showed flashes of his old bull-like self last week in superior court in Hackensack, N.J., his first appearance there since his arraignment two years ago on controversial murder charges.
		Gravano, who has 12 years to serve for state and federal drug charges lodged in 2000 and 2001, has bulked up noticeably since losing all of his hair and much weight due to a thyroid affliction known as Graves' disease.
		Based solely on the testimony of Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski, a self-described mob hitman, Gravano - who in exchange for becoming a turncoat got a free pass from the feds on every murder he admitted - was charged with holding back on one, the March 1980 murder of a corrupt NYPD detective, Peter Calabro.
	www.nysun.com /article/15166 (502 words)

	Sammy Bull Rejects a Free Pass - June 23, 2005 - The New York Sun
		For the mob slayings, Gravano had to do five years - he'd already done most of it by the time he was sentenced - and agree to testify against his boss, John Gotti.
		The deal Sammy Bull was offered for the murder of Detective Peter Calabro was a total free pass - no jail time at all - if he agreed to plead guilty, according to a prosecution memo obtained by Gang Land.
		The discussions took place while Gravano was housed at the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, awaiting transfer to federal prison to serve a 20-year rap for drug dealing.
	www.nysun.com /article/15966 (623 words)

	gravanobio
		Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano was born on March 12, 1945 in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
		Gravano, weighed 490 lbs and needing to diet quit high school to run with a local gang called the "Rampars".
		Sadly Gravano's role as second-in-command would be short-lived when in December of 1990, FBI agents with an indictment containing nineteen counts of violating the RICO Act arrested him, Gotti, Locascio, and Ruth Buzzi at the Ravenite Social Club in NYC's Little Italy.
	www.geocities.com /imokproductions/gravanobio.html (780 words)

	Nigel Bennett Featured Performance Page
		Gravano and de Cicco stew as Castellano sells off prices of the family business for his own profit and brags that he's enlisted the rival Colombo family to kill Gotti.
		Gravano's high-level breach of 'omerta' gives the FBI not only information about certain crimes, but also delivers the whole blueprint of La Cosa Nostra, a stunning victory for the government.
		In a controversial plea bargain based on his giving testimony against Gotti, Gravano pleads guilty to racketeering and is sentenced to five years in prison, despite admitting to participation in 19 murders, many of which were ordered by Gotti.
	www.blackhatstation.com /Film/oct97.htm (1746 words)

	DEA Watch - Magnuson
		Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, the mob canary who testified against his good friend and boss John Gotti, killed 19 people before deciding to do "the right thing"...
		Gravano is not a "hero" as he would like everybody to believe.
		And that being the case, Gravano would not have had the opportunity to turn informant and would most likely be in prison where he belongs for any one of his previous crimes.
	members.aol.com /DEAWatch/dea41-5.htm (893 words)

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