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Joe Bruno on the MobHector Pagan to Testify Against Vinny TV
According to an indictment brought by the Federal government,
Vincent Vinny TV
Badalamenti, an alleged top Bonanno crime family banana,
dispatched three tough guys to have
a little chat with mob informant Hector Junior Pagan who was
allegedly delinquent on a
$5,000 loan. And the chief witness against Badalamenti in his
upcoming trial is Pagan himself,who had been wearing a wire when
talking to various alleged mobsters, including his ex-father-
in-law Anthony Graziano, the father of Pagans ex-wife Renee
Graziano, one of the co-stars of
VH1s Mob Wives.
However, Badalamentis lawyers expect to have a field day
grilling Pagan on the stand
when it comes time for Pagans to perform his rat act in
court.
We intend to attack his credibility and expose his motive to
testify falsely for the
government, Ronald Fischetti, Badalamentis defense lawyer, told
the New York Post.
As was reported yesterday in this blog, Fischetti, along with
his co-counsel Eric Franz,intend to allege that Pagan was involved
in the murder of alleged Luchese crime family associateJames
Donovan in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn in 2010. In fact,
Fischetti and Franz havewritten to Brooklyn federal prosecutors
asking for information about Pagans role in Donovansmurder.
If there is evidence that Pagan was involved with Donovans
murder, Badalamentislawyers will allege that Pagan is just making
up tales out of school in order to save his own skin.
It wouldnt be the first time a mob canary testified against
former pals in order to get areduced sentence. As far back as 1941,
Abe Kid Twist Reles, one of Murder Incorporateds topkillers, turned
states evidence and began testifying against his former associates.
Reles
testimony helped put killers like Harry Pittsburg Phil Strauss,
Mendy Weiss, and Louie
Lepke Buchalter right into the Sing Sing electric chair. But
before Reles could testify againstother Murder Inc. alumni like
Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, Frankie Carbo, and Albert Anastsia,on
November 12, 1941, Reles went flying out of the 6th floor window of
the Half Moon Hotel inConey Island, while supposedly under
twenty-four hour New York City police guard.
The official NY police story was that Reles fell out of the
window while trying to
escape. But mob boss Frank Costello said years later that he
spread $50,000 around the NY Citypolice department in order to
quicken Reles demise. In fact, Costello said that the cops who
were supposed to be guarding Reles, were the ones who actually
flung Reles out the window.
But times have changed, and Pagan is now in the Witness
Protection Program, safe as anewborn baby in his mothers arms.
Stay tuned for further developments.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tv_mobster_shakedown_xAgSdPB1126xScBNvjc3qN
TV mobster shakedownBy MITCHEL MADDUX
Last Updated: 12:44 AM, February 14, 2012
Posted: 12:44 AM, February 14, 2012
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The reputed acting street boss of New Yorks Bonanno crime family
dispatched three tough guysto chat with a reality-show mobster who
failed to pay back a $5,000 loan, the feds saidyesterday.
Vincent Vinny TV Badalamenti, an alleged senior member of the
Bonannos ruling panel,allegedly sent the hoods to shake down Hector
Pagan, a wiseguy-turned-rat who is featured onMob Wives and is the
ex-husband of star Renee Graziano.
The gritty details of the extortion could be laid bare in court
if Pagana former Bonannoassociatetakes the stand against
Badalamenti.
The reputed mobsters attorneys said, however, that they plan to
portray Pagan as a self-servingturncoat who will say anything to
save his own skin.
We intend to attack his credibility and expose his motive to
testify falsely for the government,
Ronald Fischetti, Badalamentis defense lawyer, told The
Post.
At yesterdays hearing in Brooklyn federal court, Fischetti told
a judge that Pagan was recentlylinked publicly to the Mafia murder
of a Luchese family associate in July 2010.
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