The
Colombo mob thug, cleared in the 1997 killing of off-duty NYPD cop Ralph Dols,
was sentenced to 50 years in prison for racketeering. Federal Judge Brian Cogan
said the idea that Saracino would emerge from prison with newfound respect for
the law is a ‘lost cause.’
The
Colombo mob thug acquitted of being a triggerman in the 1997 murder of off-duty
NYPD cop Ralph Dols was sentenced to 50 years in prison for racketeering.
Dino
(Little Dino) Saracino, 41, earned his button for carrying out the contract
ordered by a Colombo boss, Joel Cacace, who allegedly was jealous because Dols
had married his ex-wife.
Cacace
and former acting boss Thomas Gioeli were also cleared by separate juries of
the cop’s killing.
“It
seems like what he mainly wanted out of life was to be a member of the Mafia
and he attained that goal,” said Federal Judge Brian Cogan.
The
judge threw back in Saracino’s face a secretly recorded statement he made to an
associate that he could serve a 20-year sentence and walk out of prison “with a
smile on my face.”
Cogan
said the idea that Saracino would emerge from prison with newfound respect for
the law is a “lost cause.”
Saracino
wasn’t smiling after he was socked with what is essentially a life sentence.
“I
hope you give (Dino) Calabro and (Joseph) Competiello the same sentence,”
Saracino sneered, referring to the mob rats who testified against him.
Outside
court, Dols’ mother and the parents of Colombo murder victim Carmine Gargano
hugged the prosecutors and thanked them for taking the cases to trial even
though the defendants were cleared of the murders.