A Staten Island woman says she can’t get the dough she needs because her ex-husband is cooking the books.
Ellen Desposito has been warring with her ex-husband Randy for at least 16 years over the $200 he’s supposed to serve up each week in child support.
Instead of forking over the cash, Randy Desposito has fallen nearly $20,000 behind, claiming to be unemployed. But on Friday, The Post found him behind the counter of Brother’s Pizza on Port Richmond Avenue working the dough and doling out slices and pies.
He was initially spotted working there by his 19-year-old daughter, Ellen said.
Ellen said she is unable to get the support money from her ex because the pie-man is not officially on the payroll at Brothers.
“With this, I’m like a pit bull. I’m not going away,” she said. “If he’s working in jail making three cents an hour, I want my cut.”
Randy already has some jail experience after and a Family Court judge ordered him to spend three nights each week in “Daddy Camp” – better known as Rikers Island – for non-payment, Ellen said.
“My daughter says, ‘Daddy is off to Afghanistan again,’ ” Ellen said.
Jail records show he was first sent to Rikers in May and was released from his last midweek stretch on Sept. 1. He is due to finish his sentence later this month.
The couple has two daughters, ages 25 and 19.
Randy is supposed to make payments for the younger one until she is 23, said Ellen who has since remarried and moved to New Jersey.
His consistent failure to pay child support has ruined his relationship with the younger daughter, Ellen said.”It’s non-existent,” she said.
Brother’s Pizza did not return a call for comment.
Randy declined to speak to a Post reporter and had him ejected from the pizzeria.
Besides hard feelings, the cheesy saga has generated an impressive amount of paperwork.
“Everybody else has a small case folder,” Ellen said. “My Family Court file is a box.”