The ex-husband of “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo has been freed on bail as he awaits trial for allegedly hiring a mobster to beat up her now-spouse, in keeping with federal court docket paperwork.
Tommy Manzo, a New Jersey restaurateur, not too long ago posted a $100,000 bond forward of his Could racketeering trial over the fees, court docket papers present.
He surrendered his passport and may’t journey outdoors New Jersey and New York till his case is set as a part of the bail deal, Newark federal Decide Susan Wigenton dominated March 26.
Manzo’s trial is about to start Could 20, the jurist stated.
Federal authorities say Manzo recruited a member of the Lucchese crime household to tough up David Cantin, Dina Manzo’s then-beau and now-husband, again in 2015.
In return, Manzo promised the alleged mob capo, John Perna, a deeply discounted wedding ceremony at his catering corridor, The Brownstone, in Paterson, NJ, the feds say.
Perna and an affiliate caught up with Cantin in July 2015 and labored him over with a slapjack within the parking zone of a North Jersey strip mall. The savage assault left Cantin battered and scarred, court docket papers stated.
5 years later, the pair had been arrested and indicted for the crimes.
Perna of Cedar Grove, NJ, pleaded responsible to committing a violent crime in assist of racketeering exercise and was sentenced to almost three years in jail. It doesn’t seem his affiliate ever went to trial.
Perna was launched in August, in keeping with jail data.
Manzo’s case has taken a a lot rockier highway, enduring suits of stops and begins that finally led Wigenton to dismiss it with out prejudice earlier this 12 months as a result of it violated his rights to a speedy trial.
Then final month, the feds re-indicted Manzo on the identical fees — which embody one depend every of violent crime in assist of racketeering exercise, conspiracy to commit an assault with a harmful weapon and falsifying and concealing data associated to a federal investigation.
He additionally nonetheless has pending state fees in Monmouth County, NJ, that allege he and one other man broke into Dave and Dina’s house in Holmdel, NJ, and beat the husband with a bat and bodily assaulted her earlier than robbing them in Could 2017.
The subsequent listening to in that case is scheduled for April 29, state prosecutors advised The Submit.
Manzo married Dina in 2005, however the couple cut up in 2012 over his alleged infidelity.
They didn’t formally divorce till 2016.
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