(NewsNation) — This month marks the 39^th anniversary of mobster John Gotti’s arrest for the murder of a rival crime boss, but the charges wouldn’t stick to the “Teflon Don” — thanks in part to Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano.

One of the jurors reached out to Gravano, Gotti’s right-hand man, and they cut a deal to scuttle the trial.

“I paid him $60,000 in cash and got him a job as a Teamsters foreman, that he made $75,000 a year,” Gravano told “Banfield.”

Gravano appeared Thursday to discuss the feds’ racketeering case against music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and also shared some insights about his former Mafia life. He said the mob had standards.

“We didn’t kill women, we didn’t kill children, and I never killed an innocent man,” Gravano said. “It was somebody who was in the Mafia, who took the oath. You lived by the oath, or you died by the oath. You break the rules and you die.”

Although Gravano is widely reported to have killed 19 people, that’s not entirely accurate, he said.

“I didn’t commit 19 murders. I was involved in 19 murders. Sometimes I was the planner, sometimes I was the shooter,” he explained. “On a hit, there’s a lot of different people, positions that you play. So, I didn’t kill 19 people.”

In 1992, the Feds made a case stick to Gotti — this time with Gravano’s help. He became a cooperating witness and helped convict the powerful mob boss. Gotti died in prison in 2002. Gravano would serve his own stints in prison for federal and state convictions.

Gravano says he has no regrets about his former life.

“I was in the military as well, and there were rules. I was taught to kill the enemy. There was no regrets in doing that. You’re fighting in a war. This is the same exact thing.”