Inmate Charged With Plotting To Kill Mother
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An inmate on Rikers Island was charged yesterday with plotting to have his mother killed by a hit man during Easter weekend.
The defendant, Joseph Salvio, 30, was charged after an undercover police officer, posing as a hit man, infiltrated Rikers Island and recorded the alleged plot on tape, the Queens district attorney, Richard Brown, said.
Mr. Salvio, of Queens, planned to pay the assassin with three of his mother’s fur coats – a mink, a fox, and a raccoon – which he valued at $10,000, according to charges filed in Queens Criminal Court. He wanted to murder his mother, 54-year-old Susan Allogramento, to collect on an inheritance, according to the charges.
