Sep 28, 2005 4:46 pm US/Eastern
John Gotti Returns Home
Junior And Family Posted Seven-Million Dollar Bond
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
After more than six years in jail, John A. Gotti was finally back home.
Of course, he's not in the clear: he's out on $7 million bail, under house arrest, and subject to random visits at all hours of the day and night. But as he told family, he'll take what he can, for now. After all, he still hasn't seen the youngest of his five children, the girl who was born while he was in prison.
He says he saw the light while he was locked up, and indeed, surveillance tapes made by the government while he was locked up show him renouncing his career in the mob, speaking almost bitterly about the obligation to La Cosa Nostra put on him by his father. The jury in his last trial never got to hear those tapes; they were blocked by
prosecutors who convinced a judge it was all show. They say Gotti still collected tribute, money, from captains in the Gambino crime family, even after he supposedly "resigned."
But close friends say jail changed everything. He just wants to be with his kids. And Wednesday, he may have taken a step towards that. Federal marshals drove him in two nondescript cars from the prison in lower Manhattan to his home in Oyster Bay Cove, in Nassau County. In the hours before he arrived at noon, children could be seen putting up "Welcome Home" signs and tying yellow balloons along a long iron fence from a huge cluster of yellow balloons that included an archway of about two dozen balloons over the main gate. Dogs could be seen playing on the
compound, and a woman presumed to be Gotti's wife, Kim Gotti, met a woman delivering gift baskets of food. While children either helped, or played.
Now Gotti catches up on family. While the clock ticks away: February 13, 2006. The next trial. Again. For the kidnapping and assault of Curtis Sliwa.
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