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Aug 5, 2008 12:02 pm US/Eastern

'Junior' Gotti Indicted On Conspiracy Charges

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NEW YORK (CBS) ― A Manhattan judge has ordered John A. "Junior" Gotti held without bail after his arrest on conspiracy charges linking him to three killings and large-scale cocaine trafficking.

Gotti will remain in custody until his removal to Florida. Earlier Tuesday, federal prosecutor Robert O'Neill in Tampa announced the indictment of the 44-year-old Gotti and five other men. The allegations include the three New York slayings in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The FBI arrested Gotti -- the son of the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti -- at his Long Island home.

The indictment accuses him of leading a branch of the Gambinos that operated in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania since about 1983. O'Neill said the slayings occurred in 1988, 1990 and 1991.

If convicted, he faces life in prison.

In 1999, Junior Gotti pleaded guilty to racketeering crimes including bribery, extortion, gambling and fraud. He was sentenced to 77 months in prison and was released in 2005.

Gotti was tried three times in Manhattan on racketeering charges for an alleged plot to kidnap Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.

The trials in 2005 and 2006 ended in hung juries and mistrials, and federal prosecutors announced a year ago that they were giving up.


(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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