TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Any New Yorker alive in the 1980s knows the reference “Teflon Don.” It was well-earned by Gambino family mob boss John Gotti, famously acquitted in three high-profile trials in that decade. The Teflon wore off, however, in 1992, when he was finally convicted of five murders, conspiracy to commit murder, tax evasion, racketeering and several other charges. He died in prison in 2002. But another famous Don, Donald Trump, would later earn the nickname for his flagrant refusal to own up to any of the well-documented financial, legal and personal transgressions he was accused of, continuously dodging the long arm of the law and accruing wide swaths of loyal supporters who, it seemed, loved him for this very defiance and invincibility.