The attorney pored over 30,000 court documents and filed more than 20 Freedom of Information Act requests as he sorted out fact from fiction in Persico’s past.

The digging proved fruitful: DiPietro discovered government documents illustrating Persico’s innocence in murders cited by the prosecution before the Commission sentencing. Other paperwork indicated the government misidentified the mob ranks and powers of Perisco and other defendants at specific times covered in the indictment.

A lawyer for the Bonanno crime family’s imprisoned ex-boss is throwing the book at a pair of federal judges.

Mobster Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano’s murder and racketeering convictions deserve another look because of a conflict of interest between the jurists and a Connecticut law professor-turned-author, the boss’ lawyer claims.

Meanwhile, Meli’s attorneys, John Meringolo and Anthony DiPietro, asked the judge to either sentence him to time-served or have the new prison term run concurrent to the one he’s already serving. The lawyers highlighted that their client is a cancer survivor “with a multitude of other medical ailments” who contracted COVID-19 when he was transferred to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center for almost a year following the new charges.

Convicted labor racketeer John Fazio has 30 months remaining on an 11-year prison term, but after a rare win in the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals, and an even rarer admission by the feds that they wronged him, the Genovese associate should be back home before long. Fazio, 47, would be home already if the usually slow judicial system worked at normal speed.The government's concession comes two years after Fazio's new attorney, Anthony DiPietro, first alleged in a detailed 92-page filing that the actual loss attributable to his client was at least $250,000 less than the $2.5 million threshold, and that the maximum guidelines sentence Fazio should have faced was 108 months.

A state inmate from Peekskill was released Tuesday after a judge vacated his drug conviction because the two Yonkers detectives who arrested him in 2011 testified falsely at his trial.

But at a minimum, argues attorney Anthony DiPietro, who unearthed the embarrassing info, the government admission, combined with other "conflicting and untrue statements" he says prosecutors have made about the case, should provide a get-out-jail-of-on-bail card for his client, soldier Paul (Paulie Roast Beef) Cassano. Cassano, 38, has been detained since May 31. In a fact-intensive filing two weeks ago — one that the government has yet to refute — DiPietro also argues that other undocumented allegations which prosecutors have made against all four defendants in the five-year-old attempted murder, "even if credited in all regards, are not legally sufficient to sustain an attempted murder charge."

At the time Smythe was arrested, his car was impounded. After the conviction, DiPietro was able to obtain access to the car. In the back seat, he found clothing matching the description given by Green at the trial as well as a school calendar of events for Green’s daughter. The calendar, according to DiPietro, supported Green’s testimony that he put his belongings in the back seat.

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“Simply put, justice is not built on getting even, and punishment need not be aimlessly held in perpetuity because it was once a legally justifiable result,” Amuso’s lawyer Anthony DiPietro wrote in a filing last week. DiPietro took particular issue with prosecutors’ allegations in a filing earlier this month that Amuso, who has been behind bars for 32 years, would still be a threat to the community because he still runs the Luchese crime family.

In his search of media accounts, Block learned, he wrote, that lawyer DiPietro was quoted telling a blog: "Justice should never be built on getting even, and there remains no legitimate reason in America for an extremely elderly and sick inmate to remain imprisoned when they can no longer walk and provide selfcare. The sea change from such an inhumane and costly reality, which the First Step Act was meant to cure, failed today." After noting that DiPietro "was sharply critical of my decision," the judge stated: "I wondered whether he was right."

The father and son were part of a six-man Bronx-based bookkeeping crew busted in April 2022 for allegedly raking in money for the crime syndicate for a decade “through a pattern of racketeering activity” including extortion and illegal gambling, the feds said. The gangster could have gotten a minimum of 41 to 51 months in prison — but the Court weighed all points before issuing the 31-month sentence.

In her decision, Wigenton ruled that Grecco's age, his 33 years in prison, his BOP-acknowledged rehabilitation while behind bars, and his "chronic medical conditions" when considered together were extraordinary and compelling reasons that warranted a compassionate release. Saykanic, a Clifton NJ-based attorney for 38 years, then teamed up with noted appeals specialist Anthony DiPietro. The duo submitted 199 pages of legal briefs and exhibits, including BOP documents and letters from Grecco's family members and friends that Wigenton cited in her ruling.

DiPietro charged in a December court filing that prosecutors Kelly and Hartman had wrongly stated during bail hearings for the Creas that the FBI had several tape recorded conversations that backed up their claim that Cassano, Bruno and the younger Crea were involved in a plot to kill Ulzheimer. They never explained just how they got that so wrong, but in their own court filings, and in a follow up bail hearing for Stevie Junior Crea, the prosecutors conceded that they had erroneously stated that a cooperating witness had tape recorded Bruno admitting his role — as well as those of Cassano and the younger Crea — in the murder plot.