Reputed Colombo boss Thomas Gioeli pigs out on junk food in prison
January 12, 2010 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
This mob boss puts the “die” in “diet.”
Reputed Colombo crime boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli likes to whine about how prison food is making him sick – but prosecutors say he’s hiding a big secret.
He’s a junk food junkie.
The fat-fella stuffs his face with chips, Velveeta, Spam, doughnuts, candy bars and other trash he buys at the prison commissary, new court documents claim.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors revealed his shopping list after they got sick of dealing with his constant complaints about his health.
Gioeli, 57, suffers from diabetes and a serious heart condition that he says are made worse by a prison diet and lousy health care.
Or maybe a bad snacking habit.
On a Nov. 13 commissary trip, Gioeli scooped up Cajun hot snacks, doughnut sticks, six Hershey’s bars with almonds, Honey Nut Scooters, Pringles sour cream and onion chips, Ritz crackers, a Snickers bar, three pouches of Spam lunch meat, six packets of tuna in sauce, five turkey and Swiss sticks, and six packages of Velveeta macaroni and cheese.
Two weeks later, he bought 10 more Hershey’s bars, doughnut sticks, Pringles BBQ and sour cream and onion chips, peanut butter wafers, oatmeal cakes and cream, Vietnamese chili sauce, mayonnaise and five more mac and cheeses.
Gioeli is awaiting trial for five gangland murders, but lately his lawyer has been busy arguing about his dental bridge, prescription medication and blood-sugar tests – and the high-starch diet at the federal lockup in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Government lawyers have agreed to provide Magistrate Ramon Reyes with weekly reports on Gioeli’s medical and dental care.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes said Gioeli could do his part, too.
“Gioeli continues to consume high-fat foods,” Geddes wrote to the judge. “Gioeli appears to have a history of eating unhealthy foods, including candy bars and other junk food.”
He did buy several healthy items – one bottle of water, two granola bars, low-salt crackers, a sugar-free raspberry drink and multivitamins.
His defense lawyer, Adam Perlmutter, told the Daily News that the food Gioeli buys at the commissary is not meant for his belly.
“He purchased many items during the holidays to give to less fortunate inmates on his cell block,” Perlmutter said.
At a court hearing earlier this month, Perlmutter insisted Gioeli “doesn’t want a reputation in the institution as a complainer.”
Although Gioeli has extracted a pledge from the government to keep him alive by checking his blood sugar daily and providing him with a special diet for diabetics, Justice Department lawyers are still considering seeking the death penalty against him.
Source: NY Daily News
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