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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A defense attorney drew a sentence of up to 18 years in prison Wednesday after balking at a plea deal in which he admitted conspiring to kill a nightclub owner, distribute cocaine and launder more than $200,000.
Anthony Leonardo, 57, who once represented mobsters and crooked cops, was sentenced in federal court to 16 years and, hours later, got a concurrent sentence of six to 18 years for a role in the gangland-style execution of Anthony Vaccaro, his business partner.
"You've given a black eye to the profession," said U.S. District Judge David Larimer, adding that Vaccaro's slaying in 2001 "would have never happened if you had an ounce of courage to step away and say, 'No ... this is wrong.'"
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