An elderly mob hitman asking for compassionate release from prison was told in no uncertain terms by a Brooklyn judge: Fuhgeddaboudit.
Bonano crime family triggerman Vincent Giattino was informed that the homicides cops pinned on him were “too heinous” to give him a free pass.
According to the New York Daily News, Giattino was part of Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera’s killer crew during the 1980s.
Giattino was sentenced to life in prison for a pair of murders. In September 1987, Giattino used a silencer to help his capo, Pitera, murder Phyllis Burdi.
The News reports that Pitera believed Burdi was behind his wife’s deadly overdose. After his spouse died, Pitera and Giattino murdered Burdi and the former dismembered her. She was buried somewhere on Staten Island.
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The 70-year-old Giattino was also convicted of whacking FBI snitch Wilfred “Willie Boy” Johnson in 1988, The News said it was a bid to curry favour with Gambino crime family chief, John Gotti. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1992.
But in February, Giattino’s mouthpiece, Anthony Cecutti, asked that the oldfella be given “the chance to live out the remainder of his life with his family and not die in prison.”
He is, the lawyer said, a “changed man” after doing 30 years in the slammer and is a mentor to younger convicts.
“Presently, Mr. Giattino is fighting to keep his hope alive. He has an ever-growing fear that he may die in prison if he becomes infected with COVID-19, or, suffer serious health complications. Or, that he may simply succumb to ‘death by incarceration,’ and never again be a father to Brigitte outside of prison,” Cecutti wrote, the News said.
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But while Judge Brodie noted the gangster’s advances, the homicides themselves were too terrible to spring him.
“Giattino committed two heinous murders using guns equipped with silencers and trafficked narcotics as a devout member of [the Bonanno crime family],” Judge Margo Brodie wrote.
“While the court appreciates Giattino’s efforts at building relationships with prison staff and counselors, mentoring and supporting other inmates, maintaining cohesive family relationships, and demonstrating remorse for his past actions, the nature and seriousness of Giattino’s crimes support his continued detention.”
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