Reputed mobster’s mouthpiece fingers Russian mafia for fraud rap
By George Anastasia
There might have been some mobsters lurking behind the FirstPlus Financial fraud case, a lawyer for lead defendant Nicodemo S. Scarfo said in legal papers filed recently, but their drink of choice would have been vodka not vino.
In an apparent attempt to distant himself from co-defendant Salvatore Pelullo — and also get a shot at a new trial, Scarfo — through his lawyer Michael Riley — has argued that there was an “alternative theory” to the government’s organized crime pitch in the high profile case and that he was denied the opportunity to present it.
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