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Jun 17, 2007 4:38 pm US/Eastern
Report: Gotti Will Sell Home And Prepare For Move
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ―
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John A. Gotti Jr. was accused of racketeering, but juries in three trials could not unanimously reach a verdict.
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Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and radio talk show host, said Gotti Jr. ordered two 1992 attacks on him which left him hospitalized.
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John "Junior" Gotti says in a published report that he is selling his sprawling Long Island property, preparing for an eventual move to the South.
The New York Post reports in today's editions that the 43-year-old Gotti plans to place the one-point-nine-acre estate in Oyster Bay Cove on the market in two weeks.
Gotti told the newspaper he can't afford the upkeep.
Gotti said the family will temporarily move to the eastern end of Long Island so his son can finish his senior year of high school before the family moves to Florida or South Carolina.
The Oyster Bay Cove property includes a four-bedroom mansion, a guest house, an in-ground pool, a wine cellar and a barn where the family keeps its horses.
His lawyer, Charles Carnesi, told the newspaper that Gotti spent more than $1 million defending himself in three federal trials against charges that he ordered the 1992 kidnapping of radio show host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. The trials ended with deadlocked juries.
Sliwa survived several gunshot wounds by leaping out the window of a moving cab, an attack that trial testimony showed was retribution for his on-air rants against Gotti's father, former Gambino crime family head John Gotti. The elder Gotti was sent to prison for life in 1992 after he was convicted of racketeering. He died in prison in 2002.
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