Howard Beach Publisher Gets Prison Time For Threatening Father of Sex Crime Victim On Behalf Of Bonanno Mobster
A Howard Beach-based newspaper publisher has been sentenced to five months in prison for attempting to threaten a sex crime victim's father on behalf of a Bonanno crime family aassociate. Robert Pisani, alleged associate of the Bonanno crime family. (They used to hide their face just for being wiseguys.) Patricia Adams, who operates the weekly Forum Newsgroup, threatened to use her position as publisher to have a hatchet piece written and published in a Queens newspaper about a woman who had accused a mobbed-up deli owner of a sex crime. Adams was sentenced on Oct. 11. She also must pay a fine of $200, though the full restitution amount has not yet been determined. Adams had pleaded guilty on June 25 to misprision of a felony, acknowledging her efforts to conceal the felonious crime of interfering in the sex assault case against Robert Pisani, an associate in acting capo Ronald Giallanzo's Bonanno crime family crew . Pisani was among a group of 10 reputed Bonanno ...