Judge dismisses Lucchese mobsters plea for leniency
He fished for leniency — but a Brooklyn judge wouldn’t bite.
Carlo Profeta, a 69-year-old acting capo in the Luchese crime family, promised to change his criminal ways and devote himself to fishing and caring for abused animals in a rural upstate retreat if federal Judge Eric Vitaliano went easy on him during sentencing for an extortion scheme over a gambling debt.
Vitaliano instead slapped him with 46 months behind bars yesterday — and a $5,000 fine, to boot, noting:
“[Profeta’s is] a long and undistinguished and infamous criminal life — it is a life he continued to live even as he entered his golden years.”
Profeta is scheduled to be sentenced separately in January for violating his probation by committing the extortion.
Carlo Profeta, a 69-year-old acting capo in the Luchese crime family, promised to change his criminal ways and devote himself to fishing and caring for abused animals in a rural upstate retreat if federal Judge Eric Vitaliano went easy on him during sentencing for an extortion scheme over a gambling debt.
Vitaliano instead slapped him with 46 months behind bars yesterday — and a $5,000 fine, to boot, noting:
“[Profeta’s is] a long and undistinguished and infamous criminal life — it is a life he continued to live even as he entered his golden years.”
Profeta is scheduled to be sentenced separately in January for violating his probation by committing the extortion.
