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Paper: Undertaker Drove Hitman To Work

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John GottiNEW YORK(CBS) An alleged hit man for the mob was being chauffeured to work by the undertaker, that's the story coming out of the New York Post today.

The paper is reporting that federal investigators stumbled upon the ironic arrangement while doing secret surveillance of known members of the Gambino crime family in the summer of 2006.

According to court papers, Joseph Watts, an alleged trigger man for John Gotti, was catching rides with limousines from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals. The owner of the funeral home told the New York Post he never heard of Watts.

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