Daniel “Danny” Pagano an alleged captain in the Genovese crime family has been sentenced to two years behind bars after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges.
The year long racketeering conspiracy investigation in Rockland County included loan sharking, illegal gambling, and extortion according to documents. Danny is the son of Joseph Pagano a former mafia hit man for the Genovese family.
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A prison sentence of between 27 and 33 months was requested of Manhattan Federal Court Judge Ronnie Abrams by prosecutors because he was a repeat offender. The judge said considering Pagano’s long criminal history of eight prior convictions prison was necessary but still sentenced him to the lower end of the sentencing range. The 62-year-old wiseguy will also serve three years of supervised release once he is released from prison.
Pagano did time on racketeering charges back in the early 1990’s and according to sources tried to recruit Al Sharpton into a 1980’s mafia plot to deal drugs. Sharpton has always denied that he was part of any wrongdoing and claims he thought Pagano was a music exec and not a mobster.
Another genovese mobster gettin a lenient sentence , the genovese family r the kings of the plea deal , pagano was very close to QD and was pretty much running that crew
not just the genovese the gambinos get VERY good plea deals dom celfeau, jackie, franky boy, tommy sneakers, nicky, danny marino and carmine and many others. That capo in detroit got a very good deal(i have my suspricouns there was foul play) for that assualt case.
Yes the Gambino’s have also been very good as somehow whirling their ways into some real nice plea agreements.
I think all five families as a whole have been getting good plea deals its very expensive these trials and the feds would rather just give out a plea it makes things cheaper these guys 30 years ago would never even think about taking a plea but now the plea deals are very good meaning that if you plea out not only are you getting a lot less time in the can its cheaper and also in the past it was looked down at because you can’t admit the existence of the mafia well everyone knows the mafia exists since the mid 80s what’s the point of going to trial everyone knows the mob exists. John gotti held the gambinos back with that no plea rule guys like gene got 50 years well if John let him plea out he would have got half of that same with John carneliga
I was thinking the same thing when i saw the 2 yrs, another Genovese mobster off with a soft plea.