You Gotti be kidney-ing me.
Attorneys for John Gotti’s convicted fraudster grandson are portray the previous actuality TV-star as a mannequin citizen in an effort to maintain him out of jail — whereas claiming his mom’s life actually will depend on it.
Carmine Agnello, 39, overcame the pressures of going by means of childhood as a younger actuality star on “Rising up Gotti” to turn into a humble, soft-spoken household man who mentors a fatherless 8-year-old in Harlem and is now ready to go underneath the knife to save lots of his mom Victoria Gotti’s life, his lawyer gushed in new courtroom papers.
“Carmine entered a world the place he was rapidly in entrance of a digital camera — resulting in public fascination, and household legacy that was completely unavoidable — and a subject for every day dialogue,” Metcalf mentioned in a 79-page sentencing memo sob story filed in Central Islip federal courtroom on Thursday.
“His journey is way extra uplifting than the one discovered with a fast google search, the place the headlines naturally recommend one thing scandalous,” Metcalf mentioned, including that Agnello has the ability to save lots of a life by donating his kidney to his ailing mother.
Prosecutors have argued Agnello can nonetheless donate from behind bars.
The glowing portrait of the late Gambino boss’ grandson comes regardless of Agnello’s conviction for pocketing over $1.1 million in COVID reduction loans — cash he largely funneled right into a cryptocurrency playing dependancy, courtroom papers present.
Metcalf is asking the choose to spare Agnello any jail time, arguing that the admitted fraudster doesn’t deserve it and locking him up would successfully signal his mom’s demise warrant, the docs mentioned.
Gotti, 63, is battling end-stage renal illness and her son is her solely appropriate kidney donor, and with out him, she faces only a 40% likelihood of surviving the subsequent 5 years on dialysis, in accordance with the memo.
“The ‘destruction’ created by his incarceration can be literal, not figurative,” his lawyer argued.
“No respectable penological curiosity is served by imposing a sentence that successfully sentences an harmless third social gathering — the defendant’s mom — to a terminal standing,” Metcalf continued.
Victoria herself pleaded with Decide Nusrat Choudhury in her personal letter — calling Carmine her “miracle youngster” and insisting he’s “form and beneficiant to a fault.”
“He’s giving me the GIFT OF LIFE,” she wrote.
The mob princess additionally pushed again on the fraud conviction totally, claiming her son “would by no means do something he KNEW was fallacious,” including that his actions weren’t intentionally deceitful or fraudulent regardless of the actual fact he pleaded responsible to the crime in September 2024.
Prosecutors, nonetheless, argued that donating a kidney doesn’t rise to the extent of “extraordinary household circumstances” wanted to justify a sentence under established tips, and that the Bureau of Prisons is absolutely outfitted to deal with Agnello’s medical wants behind bars — which Metcalf disagrees with, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
“Present process this transplant signifies that custody within the [Bureau of Prisons] is a large threat,” Metcalf wrote Wednesday.
“If something occurs then he might be within the worst place to deal with such an issue, BOP custody,” he added.
