Ex Mafia Boss Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano (left) with flipped to the feds former pal Dominick Cicale

By Mitchel Maddux , New York Post

A mob rat who was once a close friend and the trusted lieutenant of former Bonanno crime family boss Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, will learn his own fate today.

Basciano is serving a life sentence at the “Supermax” in Florence, Colo.,

Cicale will be in Brooklyn federal court to be sentenced for his own crimes as a mobster.

He’s already served several years behind bars and it’s not clear if, in view of his cooperation, he’ll have to do any more time.

But whenever he’s set free, he’ll be re-settled under a new identity in the Justice Department’s witness-protection program.

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Former New Yotk Bonanno crime boss Vincent Basciano, seen here in an undated surveillance photo, is adjusting well at the Supermax prison in Colorado. 

By John Marzulli / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Life behind bars just got better for Vinny Gorgeous

Former Bonanno crime boss Vincent Basciano is adjusting well at the Supermax prison in Colorado, where he’s serving two life terms, the Daily News has learned.

Basciano, 51, is no longer confined under extremely strict conditions authorized by the U.S. attorney general, and he has graduated from his solitary hellhole in notorious Cell Block H to general-population status, sources said.

“Vinny is a very strong individual and if anyone could become acclimated to that situation, it would be him,” said a source close to the flamboyant gangster.

Basciano was dispatched to the nation’s toughest prison last summer after a federal jury in Brooklyn spared him the death penalty for ordering the murder of . He had already been convicted and sentenced to life for the murder of Frank Santoro.

But general population’s Cell Block D is no walk in the park at Supermax. He’s still confined to his cell for most of the day, but Basciano now gets to participate in recreation a few more hours weekly alongside other caged evildoers, sources said.

“Even general population is a higher-level security than at other federal prisons,” the source noted.

Inmates graduate to less secure conditions by “demonstrating positive institutional adjustment,” according to the Bureau of Prisons manual.

Basciano was lumped with terrorists after officials in New York City found a “hit list” he wrote containing the names of a federal judge, prosecutor and cooperating witnesses. Basciano has long maintained that they were targeted for Santeria spells, not death.

He’s communicating with family members, lawyers and his mistress Debra Kalb, mother of his love child, sources said. A TV in his cell is the only luxury read more Here

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Costantino Pagano 

An Italian Court convicted 30 mobsters belonging to the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and Casalesi crime clan of the Camorra who forged an alliance   to dominate the fruit and vegetable markets through transport boss Costantino Pagano, the Casalesi “representative” in the trucking business and owner of  Paganese transportation who was charged with Mafia association

Known to carry clout with the powehouse Schiavone led Casalesi clan, Pagano got hit the hardest with a fourteen year jolt in prison by an Anti Mafia judge who noted his impressive fleet of trucks was also at the service of other activities of the Casalesi, such as arms trafficking

Anti Mafia investigators through wiretaps and a police informer  had established that Sicilian Mafia brothers Sfraga, agents for fugitive Matteo Massina Denaro and Gaetano Riina had set up a meeting in Sicily with  Costantino Pagano– who brokered a merger with the Casalesi clan to join forces with the Sicilians for the sole control of all transport in most of  the regions in Italy by forcing the exclusion of other carriers as a means to monopolize the fruit and vegetable markets through  mafia backed  Paganese transportation.

Mob Wives” star Renee Graziano was rushed to a NYC hospital by ambulance today … just hours after feds busted her father and several other Bonanno crime family Mafia members.

Sources close to the Graziano family tell TMZ ..Renee had a panic attack, collapsed, and had trouble breathing when she got news that her dad, Anthony “TG” Graziano, had been arrested in an early morning raid.

A “Mob Wives” rep confirms Renee was admitted to the emergency room and is still getting treatment right now.

Further upsetting for Renee — the fact her ex-husband played a role in her father’s arrest. Hector Pagan, who’s appeared on the VH-1 show, has reportedly turned rat for the DEA . read TMZ click Here

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