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FBI agent testifies that Delmonti may have been promised $500,000

Gary Craig
Staff writer

(November 4, 2004)


Anthony Delmonti, the thug-turned-snitch who helped the FBI crack two high-profile crimes in Rochester, was paid at least $269,000 as an informant, according to court testimony.
FBI Special Agent Robert Briggs testified Tuesday in the first day of an ongoing hearing that he recently saw federal records showing that Delmonti had been paid $269,000.
Delmonti may have been promised as much as $500,000 for his services, Briggs testified Wednesday in the second day of the hearing.

Federal authorities have acknowledged that Delmonti was on the payroll as an informant, but have not released information publicly about how much money he made. Delmonti had outstanding fines totaling about $150,000 from a federal drug arrest, but authorities have not indicated whether the fines were forgiven or paid in part or full.
Delmonti's undercover work led to the arrest and conviction of local mason Albert M. Ranieri, whose racketeering crimes included the 1990 armored car heist in Henrietta of nearly $11 million and the May 2000 Greece murder of pool hall owner Anthony Vaccaro

Former defense lawyer Anthony Leonardo Jr. was also arrested for conspiring to kill Vaccaro, who was his partner in a Charlotte nightclub, and for money-laundering and conspiring to traffic cocaine. Both Ranieri and Leonardo pleaded guilty.

But Delmonti is the focus of the federal hearing because of the arrest of local man Nicholas Colangelo Jr., who faces charges of money-laundering crimes. Prosecutors allege that undercover tapes of Delmonti, Colangelo and others show that Colangelo was involved in the crimes.
Colangelo's lawyer, John Parrinello, argued during the hearing this week that Delmonti did not truly consent to the undercover audiotapes and videotapes, as the FBI claims he did. Delmonti did sign authorizations allowing the undercover tapes of him and the FBI targets, but Parrinello contends that Delmonti was illegally induced to do so.
"Voluntary consent is really the issue,'' Parrinello argued at the hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman.

Delmonti may well have been coerced with the payments and forgiveness of the fines, Parrinello argued. Parrinello also prodded to determine whether Delmonti committed crimes that may have been ignored by authorities, but there has been no testimony to show that. Delmonti lived on the fringes of the Cleveland mob, occasionally working as a strong-armed enforcer. He had connections with former mobsters and others in Rochester through prison and past friendships.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Wydysh contended that there was no duress that led to Delmonti's consent. "It's clear Mr. Parrinello is on a fishing expedition,'' Wydysh said in court Wednesday.
The hearing is scheduled to continue, but the next date has not been set.

GCRAIG@DemocratandChronicle.com
 
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