Gotti, 81, must stay in jail: judge

Ailing Gambino mob boss Peter Gotti lost a second bid Tuesday to be released early from prison so he can spend his final days with family.

Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon rejected Gotti’s argument that he was extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 at FMC Butner in North Carolina, which has faced outbreaks like many other federal lockups around the country. There are three inmates and six staffers who have currently tested positive at the prison specializing in medical treatment.

In January, the judge denied a similar request from Gotti, citing an array of ailments including heart problems, dementia, blindness and cancer.

“What I said a year ago remains true today. Nothing has changed since last January

— not even the threat of COVID19 — to cause this court to alter its earlier decision,” McMahon wrote.

In her previous ruling, the judge wrote that Gotti, 81, remained a threat to society.

“Gotti headed one of the most vicious and violent organized crime organizations in New York for a period of years,” the judge wrote.

“The danger posed by a Gambino family leader like Gotti is not that he will personally engage in acts of violence, but that he can command others to do so.”

Gotti took over the Gambino crime family from his famous brother, John Gotti, in 1999. He spent $70,000 on unsuccessful efforts to whack Salvatore “Sammy Bull” Gravano, the mob rat who put John Gotti behind bars. Peter Gotti ordered two subordinates — who used aliases and changed their appearances — to travel to the West Coast and Arizona and look for Gravano.