What 'Vinnie Ocean' Is up to These Days
If anyone missed the recent news about what turncoat Vincent "Vinnie Ocean" Palermo, former acting boss of the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante crime family, has been up to, here is a detailed, full-blown account from a website called Courthouse News Service , a nationwide news service for lawyers and the news media, based in Pasadena, Calif.: A former New Jersey mob boss who came to Houston in the Federal Witness Protection Program - and who allegedly was an inspiration for the fictional Tony Soprano - defaulted on payments on a $1.3 million promissory note issued to buy out a partner's share in a strip club, the partner claims. Lisa Hansegard sued James Cabella, his wife Debra Cabella and son James Jr., and Hereweareagain Inc., in Harris County Court. Hansegard says she had no idea that James Cabella, owner of the strip club across the street from a strip club she acquired from the estate of her child's late father, was actually Vincent Palermo, a former a...