In recent weeks, the onetime Dapper Don has elevated two members of the hit team that blew away his predecessor,  Paul Castellano and his right hand man,  Tommy Billotti, 14 years ago today.

Unlike most participants in the superbly orchestrated assassination, the new capos have led charmed lives since Gotti & Co. burst on the scene in the wake of the slayings. And until now, one of them, Dominick (Skinny Dom) Pizzonia, has not even been  publicly identified as a member of the 10-man team stationed around the Sparks Steak House on East 46th Street in Manhattan on Dec. 16, 1985.

Pizzonia, 58, a bookmaker and loanshark and longtime Gotti pal from Ozone Park, Queens, was one of the backup shooters positioned near Second Ave, informed sources told Gang Land.  Pizzonia avoided earlier notoriety about the hit because a leader of the team, turncoat underboss Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano, "confused Skinny Dom with another good buddy of John's, Iggy Alogna," said one source. (That's Skinny Dom at the left blocking out most of a bespectacled Alogna, now 66.)

The other new capo is Salvatore (Fat Sally) Scala, (right) who was Peter Gotti's bodyguard/chauffeur for several years. Scala, 56, and his brother-in-law Eddie Lino, gunned down Billotti as he stepped out of his Lincoln Town Car in front of Sparks Steak House, according to accounts by Gravano and the feds.

Four years ago, Pizzonia was identified as the head of a Gambino bookmaking operation but  escaped prosecution because Queens prosecutors lacked the evidence to link him to $85,000 in cash that was confiscated in a police raid. Pizzonia also had bit parts in several FBI videotapes of gangsters walking and talking on Mulberry Street outside Gotti's Little Italy social club, the Ravenite, that were played at Gotti's 1992 racketeering and murder trial.

Pizzonia replaced Peter Gotti as capo-in-charge of John Gotti's old Ozone Park social club -- the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club -- to allow Peter to give his undivided attention -- whatever that is -- to his acting boss duties.

Scala was arrested in 1983 for heroin trafficking in the same case in which  Gene Gotti was convicted and sentenced to 50 years. But the case against Scala was weak and charges against him were dropped.

Pizzonia and Scala were both at John Gotti's spectacular 1988 Christmas bash that featured continuous music by two bands and 5-foot tall teddy bears as party favors at the El Caribe in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. They were

They were among the mourners at the wake in April 1991 for Gambino soldier Bobby Borriello, who did bodyguard/chauffeur stints for Junior, as well as his father.

Of the other members of the hit squad, only Bronx mobster Vincent Artuso, a reputed drug dealer who served a short bit for loansharking in the mid '90's -- his gun jammed as he approached Castellano -- is not dead or in jail.

John Carneglia, whose gun worked perfectly as he approached  Castellano, is serving 50 years for drug trafficking and is due out in 2018.

Backup shooter Joseph Watts (left) has another year or so to serve in federal prison, while backup shooter Anthony (Tony Roach) Rampino has at least 12 years remaining on his 25 years to life sentence for heroin dealing.

Angelo Ruggiero died of cancer; Lino was shot to death in 1990 in revenge for Castellano's slaying in a haphazard plot put together by the Luchese and Genovese families.

Perhaps the worst fate befell the 11th member of the conspiracy, inside man Frank DeCicco, who was at Sparks waiting with several other Gambino mobsters for Castellano and Billotti to get blown away.

Four months later, a hoodlum working for the Genoveses detonated a remote control bomb as DeCicco got into his car outside a Brooklyn social club.

Two old friends of Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano -- all three appeared in a surprise Gang Land contest this past summer -- have copped pleas to racketeering, drug and extortion charges that'll cost them a few years in the joint.

Frank (Frankie Fapp) Fappiano, a Gambino soldier (No. 4) whom Gravano said was the triggerman in the Aug. 8, 1990 slaying of Edward Garafalo, agreed to accept a 51-to-63 month sentence.

Joseph (Little Joe) D'Angelo, (No.3) whom Gravano claims was also involved in  Garafalo's murder, faces 46 to 57 months at sentencing next month by Brooklyn Federal Judge Edward Korman.

A third defendant, Joseph (Joe Babe) Serrano, who had been convicted of wielding a bat during a 1989 racial killing of a black youth in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, will receive 41 to 51 months, according to court records.

As part of the plea bargain, they'll all be able enjoy the Christmas holidays  with their families before their official sentencings next month.

Garafalo, a mob connected contractor who fell out of favor with John Gotti, was shot to death outside his Brooklyn home by an eight man hit team led by Gravano. The slaying came four months before Gotti and Gravano were nabbed on racketeering and murder charges.

Laura and Karen Garafalo have filed a civil suit that seeks monetary damages for the wrongful death of their father from Gravano, but not from any of the others allegedly involved in their father's death.