Original sentence: As of July 2009, Gotti is incarcerated at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).In November 2008, the Florida Federal Judge ruled that the federal government had to take Gotti back to New York to stand trial, and that they had no basis for moving the trial to Florida.In October 2008, Gotti was being held in the Pinellas County jail as a courtesy for the U.Marshals Service while he awaiting trial in Tampa Bay, Florida.No release date has been set.On August 5, 2008 Gotti was arrested and indicted on conspiracy charges in Florida, linking him to large-scale cocaine trafficking and the slayings of three New York men in the late 1980s and early 1990s
Edited sentence: Gotti has been denied bail and is being held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).Gotti's trial was later moved to New York, where he pleaded not guilty, and is scheduled to begin in September 2009.On August 5, 2008 Gotti was arrested and indicted on conspiracy and racketeering and murder conspiracy charges brought in Florida.Prosecutors charge that the ring moved at least 5 kilograms of cocaine in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Prosecutors have declined to seek the death penalty in the trial.The charges an alleged drug trafficking ring Gotti operated along with former associate John Alite and others in Queens, NY, and with the murders of two men associated with the ring