Joseph Cilibrasi (Gregory P. Mango)
Sexy “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Tamara Tunie walloped a real-life crook yesterday — blasting the “diabolical” ex-business manager who stole more than $1 million from her over the course of a decade.
“He insinuated himself into our lives and our family,” Tunie said in an emotional victim-impact statement, as thieving accountant Joseph Cilibrasi was sentenced to at least 2 1/2 years in prison.
“He is a menace to society,” the star told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Kirke Bartley. “He is a sociopath without conscience.”
Cilibrasi, of Chelsea, had attended weddings and birthdays at the actress’ side since starting to work for her in the early 1990s — all the while chiseling away at her fortune at the height of her career.
Between 2000 and 2009, Tunie worked the hardest she ever had, she told the judge — often three jobs at once.
For the past decade, she has had a recurring role as medical examiner Dr. Melinda Warner on the hit “Law & Order” spinoff .
Tunie was blessed to be able to restore a 100-year-old home with her husband, support her 77-year-old mother, pay for college for her sisters’ children, and support charities for children and shut-ins, she told the judge.
Cilibrasi’s looting may jeopardize her ability to continue all of this, she said, given the financial vagaries of an acting career.
“Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?” she said.
“As an African-American woman, roles are few and far between,” she said. “And I cannot reasonably hope to replace what was stolen.”
Cilibrasi’s sentence also covers the $75,000 he admits pocketing from Michael Stern, the conductor and musical director of the Kansas City Symphony and son of the late legendary violinist Isaac Stern.
His sentence could be extended by parole officials to a maximum of 7 1/2 years.
“Joseph Cilibrasi is not the sort of opportunist who reaches into a stranger’s open pocket on a subway,” said Assistant District Attorney Peirce Moser.
“He practices a more cunning sort of criminality. He grooms his victims by building trust and manufacturing false friendships,” the prosecutor said, adding that Cilibrasi “deserves every moment of the time he will serve as a result of this sentence.”