Whistle blowing is very likely at its most dangerous when it is directed at the Mafia, and it is truly remarkable that Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano is still among the living.
After a long and thoroughly despicable career of crime that began in Brooklyn for the Colombo family and continued with the Gambino organization, Gravano became convinced that a hit would be put out on him by his boss, John Gotti. Gravano had served as Gotti's consigliere and really knew where the bodies were buried (no pun intended, of course).
By that time, 1991, Gotti, formerly known as "The Teflon Don" and "The Dapper Don," was in prison for life, and Gravano himself, having confessed to numerous murders, had been sentenced to 20 years.
Gravano turned state's evidence on many of his fellow mobsters, however, and he was "sprung" and placed in the Witness Protection Program, which he left in 1995 to return to further criminal activity. When next he was arrested, he had been dealing in the drug ecstasy. He was again sent to prison in 2002 and still, incarcerated, has become quite ill.
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