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Mafia boss John Gotti has died of throat cancer in a prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri, officials announced. Once known as the Dapper Don, he earned the nickname the Teflon Don, because for years the combined might of America's law enforcement agencies could not make a charge stick against him.

The head of New York's notorious Gambino crime family was finally convicted in 1992 of murder, extortion and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 100 years in prison and sent to the maximum-security penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He had been battling cancer since 1998 and was 61 when he died.

BBC News

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They'll never stick this one on him

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Shame

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Originally posted by Phil
For some strange reason this saddens me.

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no its the way he was glamorised in a song called the King of New York and I have no mind of my own. I thought that would be simple enough to understand even for an old git like you

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My bad. I figured no one with any sense of musical style could be moved by that tripe, so there had to be another reason.

Next your going to tell me the Blind Boys of Alabama are the best thing since PDA's

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Is it the fact that he will no longer be around to make orphans out of kids who's father's only crime was to stand up for their right to live in NY w/o being plungered by the mob?
Is it the fact that he will no longer be able to bully and threaten witnesses to circumvent the law?
Or is it the cute little way he terrorized the People he was supposed to love the most, his Family.

Read more real news
Watch less TV.

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Well them be my reasons

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Next your going to tell me the Blind Boys of Alabama are the best thing since PDA's

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Fine then, you can get back to watching the Saprano's.

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"Three to one I beat this" -- on a criminal charge that he did indeed beat

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"Three to one I beat this" -- on a criminal charge that he did indeed beat

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Originally posted by Trollstoy
Fine then, you can get back to watching the Saprano's.

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You're better for not knowing.

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Sopranos is the best thing out of the US in a long time :+:

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besides Buffy, right?


british twits

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Buffy is shite!

...and I'm ENGLISH!
...and its twats!

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Sopranos is a tv show?

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Its about New Jersey gangsters.

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Its about New Jersey gangsters.

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http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/

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yes I know what it is, I was lying. I don't watch it because I think its shit.

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I don't watch it because I think its shit.

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Yeah but you are a "European" Phil...obviously you have no taste

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Do I get honorary, temporary celebrity status for having lived within 25 minutes of the Marion prison for the last few years???















Eh, didn't think so.

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And yet JG's life is not shit to the extent that his passing saddened you?

Strange indeed.

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