NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The ex-husband of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” solid member Dina Manzo was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in jail for hiring a identified mobster to assault her boyfriend in change for group of a luxurious marriage ceremony reception by the accused. for the attacker.
Thomas Manzo, 59, of Franklin Lakes, additionally will serve three years of probation upon launch below the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton. In June, a federal jury convicted him of conspiracy, forgery and concealment of data, and of committing a violent crime in furtherance of racketeering exercise.
According to federal prosecutors, Manzo employed John Perna, described as a soldier for the Lucchese crime household, to commit the July 2015 assault during which the boyfriend was overwhelmed with a gun. Perna’s marriage ceremony reception was held the following month at a restaurant in Paterson partly owned by Thomas Manzo, prosecutors mentioned.
Perna pleaded responsible in December 2020 to committing a violent crime in furtherance of racketeering exercise and obtained a 2 1/2-year sentence. He was launched in August 2023. Dina Manzo’s boyfriend is now her husband.
