a smart man would be smart enough to act a little crazy. just before midnight most nights, his bodyguards take him to this million-dollar townhouse he shares with his longtime girlfriend just off park avenue. unaware that we re watch with hidden cameras as he lives, gigante is no longer walking around in pajamas but it dressed like a normal person at this time of night. he s been extremely, extremely smt. he has outwitted us for a long period of time. but i can tell you right now that the commitment is going to be made where it s going to become extremely difficult for him to outwit us from here on out. i love that nbc reporting from 1988. they catch him outside his girlfriend s house not wearing a bathrobe now. the reporting on the alleged head of the genovese crime family, archrival john gotti, vinnie the chin gigante. that report was 1988. the fbi saying it s going to be
his brother you don t understand. his doctors say the man in pajamas is mentally ill, not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child afraid of the dark. he s crazy as a fox. he he has played this game for many years. giganti first came to police attention 30 years ago for taking a shot at a mob boss. vinnie, did you give yourself up because you were afraid? no, you re crazy. the last time giganti was arrested, the charges were dropped when his lawyers produced letters from psychiatrists calling him a schizophrenic with little chance of recovery. giganti has even been hospitalized from time to time. they insist he s a mastermintd. a smart man would be smart enough to act a little crazy. just before midnight most nights, his bodyguards take him to this million-dollar townhouse he shares with his longtime girlfriend just off park avenue.
family. gotti was running the gambino side, the guy running the genovese side of things was vinnie the chin. vincent giganti. he was a good looking guy in his youth. they didn t call him the chin because he had some outsized deformed weird looking chin. was from the italian pronunciation of vincent. usually a guy s looks are not that important when talking about his alleged criminal status. in vinnie the chin s status in his later years, the way he looked became very important to his efforts to stay out of business. it is dusk in new york city. and the man coming out of the shadows on the left is walking down the street in bedroom slippers wearing his pajamas beneath a bathrobe. this man is vincent giganti and the fbi says he is the boss of the richest mafia family in the country.
unaware that we re watch with hidden cameras as he lives, giganti is no longer walking around in pajamas but it dressed like a normal person at this time of night. he s been extremely, extremely smart. he has outwitted us for a long period of time. but i can tell you right now that the commitment is going to be made where it s going to become extremely difficult for him to outwit us from here on out. i love that nbc reporting from 1988. they catch him outside his girlfriend s house not wearing a bathrobe now. the reporting on the alleged head of the genovese crime family, aerch rival john gotti, vinnie the chin giganti. that report was 1988. the fbi saying it s going to be difficult to outwit us from now on. it was not until almost a decade after that they got the conviction against vinnie the chin. and the way they got it is just incredible, right? they tried everything under the sun. doggedly pursued him year after year. the fbi and the feds are making
away despite the whole bathrobe and slippers act. in new york city, they call him the oddfather. and now vincent gigante has been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. his lawyers have said he s mentally ill. he s a familiar figure on the streets of his neighborhood where he shuffles along wearing a bathrobe. prosecutors said it was an act, and the jury agreed, convicting gigante in effect of running a mob crime family. today show footage from 1997. and the way those prosecutors built those cases, the way they flipped these top guys in the mob including in the case of vinnie the chin they flipped a guy in witness protection to testify against the head of another crime family, it has always been almost unbelievably dramatic story of the way the