'Are you playing me?' Outraged Judge Nixes Plea Deal For Bonanno Boss And Chides Feds For Their 'Weasel' Move In The Case

Using the kind of tough language usually heard on wiretaps, an angry Brooklyn Federal Court Judge has again torpedoed a guilty plea to a violation of supervised release (VOSR) by Mafia boss Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, Gang Land has learned.

Saying he had "serious suspicions" about the proposed plea deal, Judge Nicholas Garaufis accused the U.S. Attorney's Office and the U.S. Deaprtment of Probation with trying "to weasel out" of seeking a stiff sentence for the mob boss — for reasons that are not immediately clear to Gang Land, and perhaps to the judge as well.

Garaufis chastised the federal prosecutor and probation official who told him they had reduced the VOSR charges against Mancuso during negotiations with his defense attorney. The judge ordered the Department of Probation Chief, Robert Capers, a former U.S. Attorney, to appear before him within 10 days and explain why the government wants to let Mikey Nose plead guilty to "a lesser kind of charge."