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Informant: Gotti wanted brother to take over family

A confidante of the late mob boss John Gotti told the FBI that the ailing and imprisoned Dapper Don wanted his brother Gene to take over command and rule the Gambino crime family from his own jail cell, according to government records.

Lewis Kasman, formerly of Woodbury and the self proclaimed "adopted son" of Gotti, told federal investigators of the mob boss' succession plans after he decided...

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