Today's Video Headlines: 11/06/23
Mobster once busted in $6M JFK Lufthansa heist dead at 86A mobster convicted of murdering a potential homicide witness four decades ago was back on the stand Monday, arguing that his life sentence should be tossed because his attorney misled him — and others who committed more vile crimes got a slap on the wrist.
But his old trial attorney, Harry Batchelder, never told him that he was facing life in prison, LoCurto said in his erratic, meandering testimony. Thinking the deal was no better than what he faced at trial, LoCurto said he told his lawyer to tell prosecutors what they could do with the deal. The attorney brought what he called a plea proposal to his client – who then told him that he could “wipe my a–” with it.
LoCutro was convicted of the racketeering-connected murder in July 2006 when a jury found that the then-45-year-old soldier with the Bonanno crime family had put a bullet in Joseph Platia — a potential witness in a homicide — about two decades earlier, according to the New York Times.
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