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NEW YORK (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a 65-year-old mobster of racketeering and conspiring to murder a husband and wife stickup team who had been robbing Mafia clubhouses, but said the government hadn't proven he had actually killed the couple.
The ruling will spare Dominick "Skinny Dom" Pizzonia the possibility of a life sentence, but he could still get a lengthy prison term for his involvement in illegal gambling and the murder plot.
Prosecutors said Pizzonia, a reputed soldier with the Gambino organized crime family, was behind the slayings of Rosemarie and Thomas Uva, who were believed to have been humiliating the mob by ripping off card games at social clubs, usually armed with a submachine gun.
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