Federal prosecutors alleged an assault was the result of an attempt to collect on a $10,000 juice loan.
Jack Galione, center, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Attorney Thomas M. Breen is behind him at far right. Luigi Mucerino was driving back from a weekend in Lake Geneva in August 2016 when a “tough guy” he knew from the west suburban Italian social clubs showed up at his Bloomingdale home late at night, pounding on the windows and doors and terrifying his wife and two young daughters.
“I got cold-cocked,” Mucerino, 39, told the jury in a matter-of-fact tone. He said Galione never told him why he’d hit him, offering instead a well-worn line from mobster movies that it “was just business.” “There was no other reason for Galione, a stranger with violent reputation, to show up at his house that night,” Hogan said.
Another witness — a known fentanyl dealer who operates an illegal gambling hall — had been cut off as a paid source by the government when he suddenly remembered fresh details about the case, including how Galione had allegedly “walked” him through how the assault of Mucerino occurred, Parente said. Cassano, 55, and Galione, 47, both of Addison, are charged in an indictment in 2021 with conspiring to collect a debt by extortionate means, which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison. Galione is also charged with using violence to collect a debt.
In his testimony Tuesday, Mucerino admitted that he only reported the attack by Galione to the Addison police at his wife’s insistence, and that he initially lied and said he owed Galione a gambling debt. The assault charges filed against Galione in state court were later dropped because Mucerino refused to cooperate.
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