John Gotti

01Chinese prisoners captured at Talas in 751 AD transmitted papermaking to the Islamic world — the technology spread faster than any army.
02Baghdad's first paper mill opened around 793 AD; by 900, Islamic scholars were producing books on a scale China alone had managed.
03Europe's first paper mill appeared in Fabriano, Italy, in 1276 — 525 years after Talas, and only after Moorish Spain passed the technique.

John Gotti beat three federal cases through witness intimidation and jury tampering — then his underboss Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano wore a wire, gave 19 murder admissions, and walked free in five years.