Two men charged in a Mafia murder involving a Bonanno crime family associate featured on “Mob Wives” are no longer looking death in the face.
The US Justice Department announced today that they will not seek the death penalty against reputed mob associates Luigi Grasso and Richard Riccardi for the July 2010 murder of a Luchese crime family associate during a robbery-gone bad.
Hector Pagan – the ex-husband of “Mob Wives” star Renee Graziano – already has been given a death penalty pass on the killing, as a reward for becoming an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, sources said.
Pagan, who was then a Bonanno crime family associate, is believed to have fired the shot during the midday robbery of James Donovan in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, sources said.
The trio pulled the stick-up on Donovan – a Luchese family associate – because he was carrying a collection of rent checks from his rental properties, officials and sources say.
When he resisted, Pagan allegedly shot him in the leg and Donovan later died.
Grasso and Riccardi still face possible life sentences if they are convicted of participating in the murder, officials said.
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