John Gotti Taken to Hospital
S P R I N G F I E L D, Mo., Aug. 9 -- Former New York mob boss John Gotti,suffering from cancer in recent years, has been taken to aSpringfield hospital, according to a broadcast report.
Missouri station KYTV reported today that Gotti's condition had worsened and he was resting at St. John's Regional Health Center after beingtaken from the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners. Thestation also reported that Gotti's daughter and another familymember were expected to arrive in Springfield this evening.
The station did not identify its sources.
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Gotti's lawyer, Joseph Corozzo, said in April that Gotti was inthe advanced stages of head and neck cancer. The 60-year-old had acancerous tumor removed from his neck in 1998.
Corozzo did not immediately return calls from The AssociatedPress. A spokeswoman at St. John's referred questions to thefederal medical center. A spokeswoman there, Diane Smith, said shecould not confirm or deny that Gotti had left the center.
Once known as the "Teflon Don" after a series of courtroomacquittals, Gotti was convicted of racketeering and six killings bya federal jury in Brooklyn in 1992.
His victims included "Big Paul" Castellano, whom he thensucceeded as boss of New York's Gambino crime family in 1985.
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