Another Philly mobster heads quietly to prison
MARTY ANGELINA already did six years in prison on a 2001 racketeering conviction. He was locked up twice for probation violations. And he's since been arrested on allegations that include drunken driving, spitting on a Margate cop and a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.
MARTY ANGELINA already did six years in prison on a 2001 racketeering conviction. He was locked up twice for probation violations. And he's since been arrested on allegations that include drunken driving, spitting on a Margate cop and a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.
Maybe the Charlie Sheen of Philly mobsters will mellow out during his next jail stint.
Angelina, 50, a "made" member and capo in the Philadelphia Mafia, was sentenced Monday to 57 months in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving illegal video-poker machines and loan-sharking. He's the fourth of 15 alleged mobsters and associates to plead guilty ahead of a major racketeering trial scheduled to begin next month.
Last week, Gaeton Lucibello, 59, was sentenced to 51 months in prison after entering a guilty plea. Mob associate Louis Barretta, 48, has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in November. The only defendant who has agreed to testify for the government is Louis "Bent Finger Lou" Monacello, 45, an associate of jailed mobster George Borgesi.
Federal prosecutors hope that convicting mob boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, 73, and his top lieutenants in the trial that begins next month will do long-lasting damage to the city's already weakened crime family.