“…I was surprised at how much action there was, right out on the streets.”
1987. As part of his ‘New Godfathers’ national special, Geraldo Rivera looks into the downfall of John Gotti. He visits the Ravenite social club and describes how top mob bosses sit right outside in Little Italy, NYC. Returning a few months after what would be Gotti’s final arrest, we find most of the social clubs closed down. The majority of this reporting takes place in 1991.
On to a bookie the FBI does half a million a year in business. At this time, in New York alone hundreds of illegal gambling parlors generate half a billion of mob revenue per year.
Later in the clip Geraldo briefly catches up with John Gotti’s daughter Victoria. “My father is the last of the Mohicans…they don’t make men like him any more and they never will.”
Organized crime continues to exist in the United States, although considered a diminished threat from the 80s and 90s.