NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned mobster John Gotti's throat cancer has returned and spread aggressively, the Daily News reported.
Gotti, 59, who is serving a life sentence for racketeering and murder, was moved from the maximum-security federal prison in Marion, Ill., to a prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., on Sept. 13, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons told the newspaper.
Nearly two years ago, doctors at the prison hospital performed surgery on Gotti to remove a cancerous tumor from his neck. Gotti returned to the hospital for a routine checkup and tests showed his cancer was no longer in remission, the Daily News reported.
Once the nation's most powerful gangster as head of New York's Gambino crime family, he was convicted of racketeering and murder in 1992 after beating the law in three previous trials.