The driver, George Raft, later became a film star noted for his authentic portrayals of gangland figures.

They also had no comment about a thorny issue - whether a gangland figure of Mr. Gotti's stature could be buried in a Catholic cemetery at all.

For that reason I sought the advice of a gangland figure I knew and could trust.

VIOLENCE A gangland figure is shot and left in a pool of blood.

In 2008 he was reportedly close to being cast for a role as a gangland figure in the first season of Underbelly but did not get the role.

"I've always paid for the sins of my father," said Mr. Eppolito, 57, whose father, Ralph, was a gangland figure called Fat the Gangster.

Barney Dalton became a gangland figure, and was reportedly mixed up with some of Sydney's most dangerous criminals in the 1920s.

In 1967 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney.

Someone has said I'm a well-known gangland figure, and I probably ran into an ambush when I tried to return home.

Paul was held as a material witness and was one of several gangland figures who testified at the trial of Charles Becker later that year.