PASQUALE "PATSY" PARRELLO GETS HAMMERED AT SENTENCING.

Paquale "Patsy" Parrello, 73, famous for the Pasquale Rigoletto's Restaurant in the Bronx, has just been sentenced in his part of the racketeering and extortion bit which was included in the East Coast Enterprise case including Joey Merlino and a host of others.   Judge Richard Sullivan, who accepted the guilty plea wouldn't consider Parrello's staunch civic duties or collections of letters from those who knew Parrello, asking the court for leniency.

" I don't think the Roman Catholic church looks too favorably at extortion. he said before announcing Parrelo's sentence. Judge Sullivan also followed that up with other thoughts. " There's a long history of Capo's dying in prison, you must have understood this, you had 88 months to think about this before."

Parrello, 73 is a Captain in the Genovese Crime Family and was caught on wiretapes, issuing a very serious threat to someone who was late making payments to Parrello.  According to the wiretaps and the federal government, what was heard was Parrello talking to an  Lucchese associate, "I want Buddy to choke him, choke him, actually choke him, the mother fucker, tell him, listen to me, next time I'm not going to stop choking,  I'm gonna kill you."  Hardly the words of a quiet, civic minded grandfather.

Judge Sullivan didn't mince words and handed down a seven year stretch for the aging Capo.  Perhaps Parrello regrets taking a plea deal now, as Eugene "Rooseter"  O'Nofrio  and "Skinny" Joey Merlino are the only two hold outs from the massive indictment.  Everyone else had plead out.already and are awaiting sentencing.   Eugene O'Nofrio has gone to great lengths to separate himself from Merlino, and we will see how this will play out in court down the line, but for Parrello, this any stretch of time you have to do beyond 70 could very well be a death sentence.

Perhaps Parello, who was looking at 40 years over this indictment made the right decision in the end, but perhaps more than anything this could be a sign to Merlino and D'Nofrio that the shit is about to hit the fan if they are found guilty....