BREAKING NEWS – Butner, North Carolina – A former crime boss convicted of ordering several murders is appealing for “compassionate release” from federal prison after serving more than 31 years behind bars.
Vittorio “Little Vic” Amuso’s defense attorneys noted in a court filing last week that the 88-year-old’s “advanced age and severe chronic medical conditions, along with his long imprisonment and perfect institutional record” as an “extraordinary and compelling reason for a sentence reduction.”
“Releasing me would be the right thing to do,” Amuso said in a prison interview. “And if I didn’t order those murders from the past, most of those people would be dead now anyway, maybe from natural causes, so what’s the difference? I should be given credit for the people I didn’t kill, but I only had them roughed up. And by now, they would be used to having missing limbs or are totally blind because I spared their life by only having their eyes gouged out. Based on these facts, the parole board should consider my compassionate side that I just described.”