Brooklyn Judge Keeps Mobster 'Monkey Man' Filocomo's Caged
Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis has rejected Bonanno associate Ronald “Monkey Man Filocomo’s bid for compassionate release from prison.
From the New York Daily News:
Filocomo admitted whacking capo Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano in 1981 as retribution for introducing FBI undercover agent “Donnie Brasco” into the crime family, and pleaded guilty to racketeering for which he’s serving a 20-year sentence.
Filocomo is said to have been suffering from various ailments but none of them deemed life-threatening.
The Daily News also noted:
The mobster — who couldn’t become a made member because he was a former correction officer before hooking up with the Bonannos — even sent the judge a résumé of classes he’s completed behind bars, including seesions on “alternatives to violence,” “business etiquette” and “criminal thinking errors.”
Filocomo’s victim, Napolitano was an avid pigeon enthusiast, Who kept his pigeons on the rooftop of his apartment building, some of which had pedigree bloodlines that descended from prize pigeons in France, Germany, and Russia.
Napolitano once owned an Italian-American war veterans club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, The Motion Lounge, an illegal casino in Pasco County, Florida and a tennis and nightclub called The King’s Court Bottle Club in Holiday, Florida. The Motion Lounge also acted as a headquarters for Napolitano’s bookmaking and loansharking biz.
Filocomo himself also engaged in illegal gambling activities.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
