Junior Pagan Slated for 2020 Prison Release
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| Pagan should be out of prison in about six years |
Pagan also was the shooter who killed Luchese associate James Donovan during a street heist for which two of Pagan's former cohorts have gone away for 36 years each, due in part to Pagan's own testimony.
According to Gangland News: "Sources say he didn't expect to be hit with a double-digit stretch behind bars because he had testified against his cohorts in the Donovan slaying and had worn a wire against top Bonanno family mobsters."
Donovan's family made the same presentation for the judge that they did last month at the sentencing of Richard Riccardi and Luigi Grasso.
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| Who would marry a guy like Junior? |
Gleeson told her: "What you said would rip anyone's heart out, any judge's heart out. If my daughter was — God forbid — ever in your position, I would want her to say the same thing."
The judge explained "[the] need to reward cooperation," adding that "I want you to understand the way the system works."
When Gleeson pronounced sentence, Janine Donovan curtly departed the courtroom.
Pagan has been behind bars since November 2011; if all goes well for him (and why shouldn't it? He deserves it, after all) he should be released in 2020.
"We can only hope," said Gleeson, that by time Pagan is released, "we have prepared him for re-entry into society to mitigate the risk" that Pagan will return to his life of crime.