CBS’s 60 Minutes knows Mobsters make good tv whether they’re real people or fictional characters like Tony Soprano. In this case, it was worth a shot.
By Gangland News
John Gotti died in prison seven years ago yesterday. His son Junior, who has been behind bars for 10 months now, no longer has any clout with the Gambino crime family. But the mob prince is still a big ticket item when it comes to 60 Minutes, the godfather of television news shows.
Recently, 60 Minutes, which has interviewed numerous jailed mobsters in its 40-plus years, and which aired a talk with rogue cop Stephen Caracappa before his trial, reached out to the former Junior Don. Lo and behold, sources say, he agreed to an on-camera, one-on-one interview.
The first Sunday after Labor Day was the perfect time – for both 60 Minutes and Junior – to take viewers inside the Metropolitan Detention Center to see and hear Gotti talk about his plight, his relationship with his father, and with the entire Gotti family, including his sister Victoria, the author and onetime reality TV star.
That Sunday is the traditional start of the fall season for the award-winning news magazine. And Junior’s fourth federal racketeering trial in four years begins the following day, September 14.
