A federal judge called James LaForte, 46, of New York City, a danger to the community and said that the assault on lawyer Gaetan Alfano was enough to keep him behind bars.
Threats of violence, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Newcomer said during Thursday’s hearing, were “sewn into the fabric of Jimmy and Joe’s business model.”It “was a message sent to all of the witnesses, all of the lawyers who dared cross the LaFortes,” said Newcomer. “And that message was: ‘We’re coming for you. Be scared.’”
He left the attorney bleeding on the street with injuries that required seven staples to his head, Newcomer said. Around the same time, the same anonymous number — and same man with a New York accent — called a potential witness in the case, whom prosecutors have not identified in court filings. When they first notified the court of the threats last week, they said they could not yet say who had been behind them. On Thursday, however, they pointed the finger squarely in LaForte’s direction.
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