Lucchese captain out on $1 million dollar bail

Father's Day came early for reputed Lucchese capo Carmine Avellino.

Avellino, 70, was sprung on $1 million bail Monday into the arms of his exuberant daughter outside Brooklyn Federal Court. “Daddy!” his unidentified daughter cried when Avellino stepped outside, accompanied by a U.S. marshal, to retrieve a shopping bag containing a change of clothes.

Federal prosecutors initially argued that the mobster, indicted last week for extortion, should be kept jailed because he is a danger to the community. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Celia Cohen consented to his release after another of Avellino’s daughter posted her $1 million home as bail.

Avellino will be on a strict 7 p.m.-to-8 a.m. curfew with electronic monitoring.

Avellino is charged with ordering a pair of Lucchese goons to work over an elderly deadbeat who was late paying back a $100,000 loan.

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