Carmine Agnello

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Carmine Agnello (b. 1960) is a New York mobster from the Gambino crime family who became rich from scrap metal companies.

At age 20, Agnello started a scrap metal business and became a millionaire within three years. During the 1980s, Agnello accumulated dozens of properties based on scraps and auto services. In 1984, he married Victoria Gotti, daughter of mob boss John Gotti. Agnello and Gotti also had a stillborn daughter, Justine, in 1985. Though Agnello and John Gotti were both allies and in-laws, their relationship was often tense. In 1992, Agnello became a made man in the Gambino family when he was inducted in a Cosa Nostra ceremony led by his brother-in-law Junior Gotti, who was then the acting godfather of the Gambinos.

In 2000, Agnello was arrested and charged with racketeering and arson. According to testimony, Agnello promised a cooperating witness $2000 to "buy glass bottles (and) and fill them up (with gasoline) and throw them all around the truck" of a competitor. In his defense, Agnello's lawyers claimed that he suffers from bipolar disorder and may have suffered side effects from his medication. Agnello received a nine year sentence for racketeering.

Starting in November 2007, Agnello served time in a halfway house in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, which satisfied the mental rehabilitation portion of his federal sentence. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, he was officially released from federal custody on January 16, 2008.