Ailing Colombo soldier turned used car salesman sentenced to jail for violating parole
An
ailing Brooklyn Colombo family soldier-turned-used-car-salesman was
sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for violating parole by
communicating with other former mobsters.
Brooklyn
Federal court judge Kiyo Matsumoto handed down the sentence at the
behest of Ilario "Fat Larry" Sessa’s attorney James Froccaro, who noted
that the mobster wouldn’t be eligible for time off for good behavior
unless he was sentenced to at least one day longer than a year.
In
court papers, Froccaro said Sessa was working as a salesman at 4 Guys
Motors in Brooklyn when he made contact with his old associates.
Despite
now being on the up and up, most people refused to do business with
him, Froccaro said. “His old friends were trying to help him make
legitimate money and a living in the used car business,” Froccaro wrote.
Sessa,
52, who uses a walker and suffers from a litany of health problems
including lupus, morbid obesity, spinal stenosis, diabetes and coronary
heart disease, blew his family a kiss in court.
Froccaro
had asked that the convicted mobster be sentenced to time served for
the parole violation, citing his many hospital stays and extensive pain
while awaiting judgement in Metropolitan Detention Center since
September.
Sessa
needs spinal surgery to relieve excruciating pain and increase his
mobility and heart surgery to repair blockage in his aorta that could
kill him if untreated.
He
violated parole by using six burner phones to communicate with at least
two former Colombo family associates between December 2017 and July
2018.
“When
someone goes through extraordinary lengths by using six disposable
phones there's an obvious attempt to evade the probation departments
condition,” Matsumoto said.
Sessa previously served five months for a similar violation.
“It is a concern that there is a seeming lack of understanding or appreciation or respect for the law,” Matsumoto said.
Sessa
was initiated by acting boss Andrew "Mush" Russo the night of Jan. 12,
2011 following a sting operation that landed over 100 mobsters behind
bars. Sources told the Daily News the secret ceremony took place in the
intake room of the Metropolitan Detention Center after the lot had been
arraigned.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-mobster-used-car-salesman-parole-20190219-story.html
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