With the unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, hundreds of thousands of Americans are facing the nearly insurmountable challenge of finding a job.
Reputed South Jersey mob leader Anthony Staino is apparently one of them.
Of course, Staino has the added baggage of a 50-count racketeering indictment, an electronic ankle bracelet, and court-ordered home confinement.
The Gloucester County resident’s luck appeared to have changed this month when he received court permission to leave his home to work at a sugar plant in the nearby Pureland Industrial Park.
But Friday, after being contacted by The Inquirer, Royal Sugar L.L.C. rescinded its job offer, according to one of the company’s owners.
“The work schedule and his skill set didn’t fit,” Lawrence Toscano said.
Staino would have been paid an hourly wage for working shifts and would have been required to operate machinery, including a forklift.
Royal Sugar processes and refines sugar for distribution to wholesale and retail companies, Toscano said. Sales last year exceeded $14 million.
Staino is a longtime friend of co-owner William Fawley’s, Toscano said, and the company had hoped to give him an opportunity.
“But it just wasn’t the right fit,” he said.
Staino’s lawyer blamed The Inquirer for the change of heart by Royal Sugar, which was identified in the court’s order, made public Aug. 30. He said the company rescinded its offer because it had been contacted by a reporter.
Staino will “never be able to find work” if a potential employer gets calls from the media, attorney Gregory Pagano said angrily, while proposing that Royal Sugar’s name not appear in any article.
Staino – who, according to investigators, has described himself as the mob’s “CFO” and a “member of the board of directors” – had expected to begin work this week. The Pureland industrial complex is just a few miles from his home, near Swedesboro.
“No one wants to stay home 24-7,” Pagano had said in an earlier interview. “Anybody who is at all motivated would be interested in going to work.”
Since his release on $900,000 bail in May, Staino, 54, has been confined to the house he shares with his wife and 3-year-old daughter in the Westbrook at Weatherby development of Woolwich Township.
The house, valued at more than $300,000, is on a corner lot and has a two-car garage and a fenced-in yard with a patio, grill, and in-ground pool.
Staino is charged along with reputed mob boss Joseph Ligambi and 11 others in a case involving illegal gambling, loansharking, and extortion.
by George Click here: Reputed mob boss loses out on a job | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/25/2011
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