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Thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from all of us here at nbc news headquarters in new york. john gotti, john gotti died in prison in the year 2002 after serving about ten years of a life sentence for, among other things, his convictions for five different murders. john gotti was the boss of the gambino crime family in the mafia. but before he died, while he was still in federal prison, one of the things that john gotti got to enjoy as a feature of life in federal prison was that he had fairly regular visits with members from his family and because those conversations ...

Tell the whole story of how can you possibly build a tunnel like that, which comes directly under the shower, the one place where the camera couldn't see what he was doing? >> so this being chapo, there are several tunnels. the one you're talking about was in his prison cell in 2015. in that instance it was a mile-long tunnel that went from basically a shack outside of the prison straight up into the cell of his prison, into the shower. now we heard testimony that other inmates were hearing rumbling underneath the prison and complaining about it. so, clearly, the prison authorities knew someth...

The camera couldn't see what he was doing? >> so this being chapo, there are several tunnels. the one you're talking about was in his prison cell in 2015. in that instance it was a mile-long tunnel that went from basically a shack outside of the prison straight up into the cell of his prison, into the shower. now we heard testimony that other inmates were hearing rumbling underneath the prison and complaining about it. so, clearly, the prison authorities knew something was up. and you see the video of the day of the escape and el chapo gets up from his bed, makes his bed up nice and neat, puts...

>> thanks very much. in the past few minutes, we managed to make contact with the lawyer, the russian lawyer representing paul whelan in the espionage case against him. he confirm said paul whelan has now indeed been formally charged with espionage under the russian criminal code. and he's being held in prison, which is a big former kgb prison, actually, in a suburb of the russian capital. according to the conversation we had with the lawyer, he said that mr. whelan is in good condition. also his mood is very good, and he's been treated well, according to the lawyer, by the authorities and the...

Bulger had helped frame one of his friends for murder. the times said the killers tried to avoid surveillance cameras but caught images of at least two inmates rolling bulger into a corner where they beat him to death and sources say prison authorities found bulger tuesday morning, wrapped in a blanket, blood covering the floor. word of his violent death met with relief from family members of his victims. >> this is the end for myself and my family. >> a guy like him doesn't deserve a nice easy death but a slow death and i hope he got that. >> reporter: he was transferred from another facility...