Peter Gotti, Gambino crime boss and older brother of John Gotti, dead at 81
Peter Gotti, the former boss of New York’s Gambino crime family and the older brother of mobster John Gotti, died Thursday in federal prison. He was 81. Gotti, of Queens, New York, was serving a 25-year sentence in North Carolina for racketeering conspiracy, the Staten Island Advance reported. He died of natural causes while incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, The Associated Press reported, citing a person who spoke on condition of anonymity.