John Gotti’s grandson was hit with a 15-month federal prison sentence Monday, a break from the three-year stint he was facing.
Carmine Agnello, 39, had been trying to dodge serious prison time on a 2024 fraud conviction for months, claiming his ailing mother, Victoria Gotti, would die without his kidney – and said he couldn’t pull off the procedure from inside a federal lockup.
Judge Nusrat Choudhury met him halfway, hitting the Teflon Don’s grandson with a lighter sentence and ordering him to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution — but opting against the max.
Agnello admitted that he pocketed $1.1 million in COVID relief funds that were meant to help struggling businesses – and used the cash to invest in cryptocurrency.
His lawyers argued that a hefty prison sentence would doom his 63-year-old mom, who is battling end-stage renal disease, has no chance without the procedure..
“He is giving me the GIFT OF LIFE,” the mob princess wrote to Judge Nusrat Choudhury last month, pleading for her grandson to be cut loose.
However, federal prosecutors countered that Agnello could give up the kidney behind bars, and said the situation didn’t warrant a break on prison time.
John Gotti, a notorious Gambino crime family boss, was convicted of racketeering in 1992 and died behind bars in 2010 after being diagnosed with throat cancer.
This is a developing story.
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