The statute of limitations on perjury is five years. Unless they can roll it into a RICO and prove an ongoing criminal enterprise, which in the case of a mob wife is unheard of.
Thank you!
Anthony M. Destefano, in his excellent Joe Massino biography, "King of the Godfathers," notes that "It had been something of an unwritten rule that the wives were off limits to prosecutors, that their spouses would take the fall. But [Assistant US Attorney Ruth] Nordenbrook didn't like playing by that mobe rule and chafed when some of her colleagues in law enforcement wanted to. She lived up to her ideals by prosecuting Marie Attanasio, the wife of Louis "Ha Ha" Attanasio." She was also the prosecutor who went after the Josephine Massino/Barry Weinberg connection.
Thanks, I was totally unaware of this rule BUT, it does make rational sense ONLY because the American mafia has the unwritten rule of not going after government officials (police,fbi,judges). They are only doing their job.
