Rikers Inmate Charged in Attempt To Hire Hitman
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An inmate on Rikers Island was charged yesterday with attempting to have his mother killed by a hit man over Easter weekend.
The defendant, Joseph Salvio, 30, was busted after an undercover police officer, posing as a hit man, infiltrated Rikers Island, and recorded the suspect’s alleged plot on tape, the Queens District Attorney, Richard Brown, said.
Mr. Salvio, who is from Queens, planned to pay the assassin with three of his mother’s fur coats – a mink, a fox, and a raccoon — that he valued at $10,000, according to charges filed in Queens Criminal Court. He wanted to murder his mother, 54-year-old Susan Allogramento, in order to collect on an inheritance, according to the charges.
