Judge rules mobster must accept plea deal
BY Selim Algar
A Brooklyn federal judge rejected a Colombo crime family scion’s bid to pull back his plea deal for loan-sharking because the feds decided to get tough with his sentencing guidelines, Brooklyn federal court papers show.
Mafia prince Michael Persico claimed prosecutors breached their 36- to 47-month sentencing deal by pushing for a stiff term in a pre-sentence report, his lawyers said in court papers.
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