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4 years imprisonment (1973)
The year attached to this four-year sentence is wrong. Reliable timelines place Gotti’s plea and four-year sentence in 1975, not 1973.
Full reasoning
This entry misdates John Gotti’s four-year attempted-manslaughter sentence.
Multiple reliable sources place that sentence in 1975:
- An Associated Press timeline published by CBS News says Gotti was arrested on June 3, 1974 for the James McBratney killing and that on August 8, 1975 he pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and received four years.
- The Los Angeles Times similarly states that in 1975 Gotti pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter in the McBratney case and was sentenced to four years in state prison.
That means the infobox entry labeling the sentence as "4 years imprisonment (1973)" is incorrect. 1973 was the year of the McBratney killing, not the year Gotti received the sentence.
2 sources
- Gotti's Life By The Numbers - CBS News
June 3, 1974: Gotti arrested for McBratney hit. Aug. 8, 1975: Pleads guilty to attempted manslaughter in McBratney case; plea bargain gets him four years (he would serve two).
- Undoing the 'Dapper Don'? - Los Angeles Times
1975--Gotti pleads guilty to attempted manslaughter in the death of James McBratney... He is sentenced to four years in state prison.