Aug 05
2008Junior Gotti arrested on murder conspiracy charge
Filed Under (News) by Sheern Tami on 05-08-2008
Tagged Under : Cosa Nostra, Crime, Dapper Don, Gambino Family, John A. "Junior" Gotti, John Angelo Gotti, John Gotti, Junior Gotti, Mafia
Great, The Gambino Family is making news again after keeping low for a few years. Last time they got world media hype was on June 10, 2002 when “The Dapper Don” John Gotti died of throat cancer at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
And now head of the Gambino family John A. “Junior” Gotti has been arrested on charges linking him to drug smuggling ring and 3 prior mob-hits. Gotti is the son of “Dapper Don” John Gotti, the late Gambino family boss
Gotti, was arrested by the FBI at his Long Island home. Feds in Tampa, Fla. The Feds are expected to announce a racketeering indictment, charging Gotti with murder conspiracy in connection with killings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the official.
A separate indictment charges five other men with racketeering. It alleges some of them were involved with Gotti in one of the three New York murders, according to the official. It also alleges a fourth killing in New York, not linked to Gotti.
Gotti has two sisters, Victoria and Angela. He also had two brothers, Frankie and Peter, though Frank was struck by a car during childhood and killed. In 1990, Gotti married Kimberly Albanese, daughter of Gambino crime family mobster Phillip Albanese. Gotti lives in Long Island.
