Gotti's brother is charged in plot to kill informant

NEW YORK (AP) — The brother of the late mob boss John Gotti was charged Monday with plotting to kill Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, the Mafia turncoat who once dared the Gambino crime family to hunt him down.

Peter Gotti was named in an indictment that included five other Gambino family members already charged in a wide racketeering conspiracy that included the alleged plot to kill Gravano. Gravano was arrested in a drug case before the hit could be carried out.

The new indictment in Manhattan federal court told little about the scheme, saying only that Peter Gotti and others conspired from October 1999 through May 2000 to kill Gravano and boost their own status in the crime family.