No Early Release for Baldy Mike Spinelli

[mafiastudent]

No early release for Luchese mobster ‘Baldy Mike,’ who plotted attempted hit of Mafia snitch’s sister in Brooklyn
By John Annese
New York Daily News•
May 07, 2023

A Luchese crime family mobster used a lyric from Bob Dylan’s classic “Blowin’ in the Wind” to argue he should get early release for trying to kill the innocent sister of a mob snitch — but he didn’t get the answer he wanted from a federal judge.

Michael “Baldy Mike” Spinelli, 69, will have to wait until 2026 before he gets out of federal prison for the brutal 1992 attempted murder, after Brooklyn Federal Judge Raymond Dearie called his request for compassionate release a “nonnegotiable no.”

Spinelli contended that his host of health problems made him eligible for compassionate release and that he’s a fully rehabilitated man who practices yoga and teaches it to his fellow inmates.

He quoted the Nobel Prize-winning rock icon in his January filing to the judge, adding a notation in case the jurist didn’t recognize the lyric.

The rest of the story is available here:

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

[Little_Al1991]

Wasn’t he released a couple years back but then told he had to go back? Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

[newera_212]

Wasn’t he released a couple years back but then told he had to go back? Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Yeah, was really about to say I am feeling a tinge of deja vu. Thought this guy was already released a few years ago. IIRC this guy was kind of close to DeSantis, so if he got released and wanted back in (theoretically speaking) I doubt he wouldn't be recognized as a made man

[Little_Al1991]

Wasn’t he released a couple years back but then told he had to go back? Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Yeah, was really about to say I am feeling a tinge of deja vu. Thought this guy was already released a few years ago. IIRC this guy was kind of close to DeSantis, so if he got released and wanted back in (theoretically speaking) I doubt he wouldn't be recognized as a made man

Pennisi said that when Spinelli’s brother flipped, DeSantis was worried because he said he could be in trouble. I haven’t heard anything about Baldy Mike being close with DeSantis but if you have the time to share any details, please do so as I would be interested in seeing more information about that

[newera_212]

Wasn’t he released a couple years back but then told he had to go back? Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Yeah, was really about to say I am feeling a tinge of deja vu. Thought this guy was already released a few years ago. IIRC this guy was kind of close to DeSantis, so if he got released and wanted back in (theoretically speaking) I doubt he wouldn't be recognized as a made man

Pennisi said that when Spinelli’s brother flipped, DeSantis was worried because he said he could be in trouble. I haven’t heard anything about Baldy Mike being close with DeSantis but if you have the time to share any details, please do so as I would be interested in seeing more information about that

i just know they are close in age and came up under or around the Chiodo/Pagliarulo crew at the same time

[SonnyBlackstein]

You shoot a woman. You, shoot, a women. Do as much yoga as you want but rot.

[CornerBoy]

deplorable guy and really depraved act. It should be noted that Patricia was a bookmaker herself. fuck all that "she was in the life so she should know" still a piece of shit thing to do.

[furiofromnaples]

There's no worse punishment than knowing that you've wasted your life, that no one recognizes you as a made man and that once you're out you'll be a nobody for the Luccheses.

[Cheech]

There's no worse punishment than knowing that you've wasted your life, that no one recognizes you as a made man and that once you're out you'll be a nobody for the Luccheses.

Exactly!

[CornerBoy]

hopefully he lives outt his life in a baseement apt w a hot plate.

He'll be hooked on opiates within first year if he's not already.

All that time and he'll have relative nobodies who when he left letting him hang around a little bit LOLOLOLOLOL

mAYBE we'll get lucky and georgie conte will get a horrible disease where his quality of life is piss poor.

Are Jimmy and Mario palling around yet?

[johnny_scootch]

Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Pennisi and DiNapoli were talking about the Vito Guzzo situation and from what I can remember Pennisi said DiNapoli words were ‘we don’t have to recognize him if he comes out’. In the video Pennisi then brings up Mike Spinelli as an example that their own family has done the same thing but at no point does he say that Spinelli or Guzzo aren’t recognized.

[Little_Al1991]

There's no worse punishment than knowing that you've wasted your life, that no one recognizes you as a made man and that once you're out you'll be a nobody for the Luccheses.

Not exactly a nobody if he comes back into the life because they will know he did time and he could home to something good, that is if he was around the Brooklyn guys who run the family today

[Little_Al1991]

Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Pennisi and DiNapoli were talking about the Vito Guzzo situation and from what I can remember Pennisi said DiNapoli words were ‘we don’t have to recognize him if he comes out’. In the video Pennisi then brings up Mike Spinelli as an example that their own family has done the same thing but at no point does he say that Spinelli or Guzzo aren’t recognized.

Thank you for the correction.

[furiofromnaples]

Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Pennisi and DiNapoli were talking about the Vito Guzzo situation and from what I can remember Pennisi said DiNapoli words were ‘we don’t have to recognize him if he comes out’. In the video Pennisi then brings up Mike Spinelli as an example that their own family has done the same thing but at no point does he say that Spinelli or Guzzo aren’t recognized.

So why induct in prison Guzzo?

[johnny_scootch]

Casso inducted him in prison but Joe DiNapoli told Pennisi that they don’t accept that so this guy’s not a made man

Pennisi and DiNapoli were talking about the Vito Guzzo situation and from what I can remember Pennisi said DiNapoli words were ‘we don’t have to recognize him if he comes out’. In the video Pennisi then brings up Mike Spinelli as an example that their own family has done the same thing but at no point does he say that Spinelli or Guzzo aren’t recognized.

So why induct in prison Guzzo?

It seems like DiNapoli the Lucchese consigliere at the time was personally against inducting members in prison but Guzzo was inducted into the Colombo family so DiNapoli’s personal opinion didn’t matter.