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Lucchese Mafia family member John Perna gets 30 months in prison for attack on Real Housewives star’s hubby
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2021-06-12T23:00:00.000Z
2021-06-12T23:00:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lucchese-mafia-family-member-john-perna-gets-30-months-in-prison" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159652,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159652?profile=original" /></a>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>All is fair in love and war, but if one gets involved in either, prepare for things to get messy and end in disaster. As it did for <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-lucchese-crime-family" target="_blank">Lucchese Mafia family</a> mobster <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Perna" target="_blank">John Perna</a> when he got involved in the love affairs of a friend of his. 44-year-old Perna was sentenced Thursday to 30 months behind bars for his role in the heartbreaking story, which included the husband of one of the former stars of the Bravo television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”.</p>
<p>Perna, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, heard his sentence via videoconference. He previously pleaded guilty the same digital way to Count One of an indictment charging him with committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity. The man tying him to the crime is 56-year-old <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Manzo" target="_blank">Thomas Manzo</a> (photo above, with his ex), of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, and one of Perna’s codefendants.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>A beating for a wedding discount</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="https://st11.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/6550482476?profile=RESIZE_710x" alt="6550482476?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a>Manzo is one of the owners of the Brownstone Restaurant in Paterson, New Jersey, and the ex-husband of one of the stars of the Bravo television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”. In the spring of 2015, he <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lucchese-family-soldier-beats-up-new-husband-of-one-of-the-real-h" target="_blank">hired</a> Perna (right) to assault his ex-wife’s new boyfriend (currently her husband) in exchange for a deeply discounted wedding reception to be held at Manzo’s upscale Passaic County venue.</p>
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<p>Rather than realize that Manzo was making an outlandish request that wasn’t worth the possible troubles, Perna planned and carried out the assault on July 18, 2015, with the help of a member of his <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-lucchese-crime-family" target="_blank">Lucchese family</a> crew. Perna was armed with a “slapjack” during the assault.</p>
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<p>After a job well done, Perna held a lavish wedding reception at Manzo’s restaurant a month later for a fraction of the price he would otherwise have paid. The reception was attended by over 330 guests, many of whom were members of the Lucchese crime family.</p>
<p>In addition to the prison term, Perna was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $17,816 in restitution.</p>
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Lucchese family soldier beats up new husband of one of “The Real Housewives of NJ” as favor to her ex
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2020-07-03T11:30:00.000Z
2020-07-03T11:30:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lucchese-family-soldier-beats-up-new-husband-of-one-of-the-real-h" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159252,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159252?profile=original" /></a>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Love is a battlefield, a popular song once told us, but to literally turn it into one is a bit extreme. Especially when one of the heartbroken parties involved turns to the Mafia for help in beating up his ex-wife’s new boyfriend. Yet that is the situation two ‘goodfellas’ from New Jersey found themselves in.</p>
<p>55-year-old <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Manzo" target="_blank">Thomas Manzo</a> is the ex-husband of Dina Cantin, one of the stars of the Bravo television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” Though the pair was separated, Manzo could not accept the fact that his former wife had moved on. When he found out she was dating again – worse, that she was serious about one guy – he was furious.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159652,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159652?profile=original" /></a><em><strong>Photo: Dina and Thomas Manzo during happier times.</strong></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Beating in exchange for a lavish wedding reception</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159671,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159671?profile=original" /></a>In the spring of 2015, he then allegedly turned to (now 43-year-old) <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-lucchese-crime-family" target="_blank">Lucchese Mafia family</a> soldier <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Perna" target="_blank">John Perna</a> (right) to assault his ex-wife’s then-boyfriend in exchange for a deeply discounted wedding reception for Perna held at the Brownstone Restaurant in Paterson, New Jersey. Manzo is one of the owners of the upscale venue.</p>
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<p>As a “made guy” and son of a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-lucchese-crime-family" target="_blank">Lucchese family</a> capo, Perna, commanded his own mob crew and worked with his associates to plan and carry out the assault, which eventually took place in July of 2015. In exchange for this violent piece of work, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Lucchese" target="_blank">Lucchese mobster</a> held a lavish wedding reception at Manzo’s restaurant for a fraction of the price, which was paid by another Lucchese associate and close friend of Manzo’s.</p>
<p>The wedding and reception, held in August 2015, were attended by approximately 330 people, and included many members of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-lucchese-crime-family" target="_blank">Lucchese crime family</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Fraud and falsifying records</strong></span></p>
<p>Separately, prior to the date that Perna was scheduled to begin serving a state prison sentence in January 2016, he falsely reported that his Mercedes Benz was stolen and destroyed. He filed an insurance claim for the destruction of the car in order for the balance due on the Mercedes. However, he had staged the vehicle theft and arson with other members of the Lucchese family.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, both men were arrested and charged with committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity and conspiracy to commit a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity.</p>
<p>The indictment also charges Perna with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud related to the submission of the false car insurance claim.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237159684,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237159684?profile=original" /></a><em><strong>Photo: Dina Cantin and her current husband Dave Cantin.</strong></em></p>
<p>Manzo was also charged with falsifying and concealing records related to the federal investigation of the July 2015 assault. Federal grand jury subpoenas that were sent to the Brownstone Restaurant seeking documents related to the August 2015 Perna wedding reception were not turned over by Manzo and he allegedly deliberately submitted a false document regarding the reception to the government, along with a false certification.</p>
<p>In November 2019, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> agents executed a search warrant at the Brownstone Restaurant and seized invoices for the August 2015 Perna wedding reception and other relevant documents that were not previously turned over.</p>
<p>If convicted of these crimes, both men face several decades behind bars. All because of one man’s broken heart and jealous mind.</p>
<p><strong><em>UPDATE JUNE 13, 2021:</em> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lucchese-mafia-family-member-john-perna-gets-30-months-in-prison">Lucchese family member John Perna</a> gets 30 months in prison for attack on Real Housewives star’s hubby</strong></p>
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Another mob boss whacked in Montreal Mafia gangland hit
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2016-03-01T20:00:00.000Z
2016-03-01T20:00:00.000Z
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<p>The hits just keep on coming. Lorenzo Giordano (photo above), one of the leading members of the Montreal Mafia was shot down in a parking lot in Laval this morning. The 52-year-old was taken to the hospital, but to no avail, the Montreal Gazette reported.</p>
<p>Giordano was one of six mob bosses in charge of Montreal’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/montreal-mafia-boss-vito-rizzuto-1946-2013">Rizzuto crime family</a> who went down during <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/montreal-mafia-bust-project">Project Colisée</a>, a law enforcement investigation targeting the city’s most powerful crime clan. Giordano had been released from prison to a halfway house in December last year.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/one-person-shot-in-parking-lot-of-lavals-carrefour-multisports" target="_blank">Montreal Gazette</a>, “Laval police initially received a call around 8:40 a.m. from someone who said they heard “shots fired” in the parking lot, according to Laval police spokesperson Franco Di Genova. […] Police had no suspects as of early Tuesday afternoon.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237062484,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237062484?profile=original" width="220" /></a>Giordano (right) was considered a mobster of the new generation. As a member of mob boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/montreal-mafia-boss-arcadi-to-be-released-soon">Francesco Arcadi</a>’s crew, he was known as a hothead and was reprimanded to go easy on the drinking by his mob colleagues after he had gotten into an altercation with a rival drug dealer at a restaurant. Giordano had, allegedly, repeatedly stabbed at the victim’s head.</p>
<p>Another time, when a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bikers-amp-outlaw-motorcycle">Hells Angels biker</a> put his hands on Giordano’s good friend and fellow mobster Francesco Del Balso – whose brother was recently busted in Arizona with <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/montreal-mobster-caught-in-arizona-with-62-kilos-of-cocaine">62 kilos of cocaine</a> - Giordano followed the Hells Angel outside and fired several shots at his Porsche as he drove off.</p>
<p>His violent behavior combined with his involvement in drug trafficking and gambling earned Giordano a considerable income. He and his wife lived in a $1 million dollar home in the Vimont neighborhood of Laval. To cruise around town, he owned a Porsche Cayenne SUV, a $190,000 BMW Z8 Roadster, and a Ferrari 550 Maranello, which he, according to the book <a href="http://amzn.to/1RkjaYV" target="_blank">Mafia Inc.</a>, showed off every year in downtown Montreal on Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend. For good measure his wife owned a Mercedes-Benz convertible.</p>
<p>His life of crime paid off handsomely, unfortunately for Giordano, his final payment came in lead.</p>
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