A Bonanno crime family soldier who allegedly ordered the grisly butchering and burning of another mobster at a "haunted" mansion on Staten Island is looking to cut a deal with the government, court filings show.
Gino Galestro, accused of ordering the 2005 hit on Robert McKelvey, 39, is in talks with the Brooklyn US Attorney's Office on a proposed plea; it wouldn't come before Feb. 11, the filings indicate.
The hit was ordered because McKelvey owed Galestro money and had a "big mouth," sources have said.
Galestro allegedly paid gangster Joseph "Joe Black" Young $8,000 to whack McKelvey inside the Kreischer Mansion.
According to papers, Young allegedly lured McKelvey there and tried to strangle him.
When McKelvey broke free, Young allegedly stabbed him, dragged him to a pond and drowned him.
On Galestro's orders, Young then allegedly hacked the body into pieces and burned them in the mansion's furnace. Young has also been charged in the case.
