Bonanno Lifer Joe Chilli Wins One: Gets Supervision, Not Prison
Listing on a cane last Tuesday, wearing a blue-and-white Reebok tracksuit and a pair of black Crocs, Bonanno wiseguy Joseph Chilli III, all 400 pounds of him, went to Brooklyn federal court to take his medicine. Joe Chilli III Both prosecutor and probation officer recommended that the judge give Chill, 63, who violated his supervised release, time served rather than seven to 13 months in prison as called for by sentencing guidelines. Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis mostly went along with the recommendations made by assistant U.S. attorney Margaret Gandy and Department of Probation officer John Alamanza. He gave Chilli four more years of supervised release. (Lifetime home release also was on the table for the longtime Bonanno wiseguy; his root crime is a drug conviction, specifically, a 2000 drug case to which Chilli pleaded guilty in 2003.) Considering his lifetime "profession" as a badguy, in all likelihood this won't be his last dance either as ...