He’s charged with running a $300 million pump-and-dump stock swindle, but the ex-husband of former “Sopranos” sweetheart Jamie-Lynn Siglﷺer says that shouldn’t stop him from getting to business meetings while he’s out on bail.
Free on $2 million bond but confined to his Connecticut home, Abraxas “A.J.” Discala pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday, then asked for permission to leave his house for meetings with, he claimed, representatives from Google, Microsoft an🍨d AT&T.
Federal prosecutors, in arguing against the day passes, suggested that Discala’s nꦍew dealings could be linked to the alleged stock scheme that got him arrested last week in Nevada.
Along with six cohorts, Discala was busted in 🔯a swindle that would have made fictional mob boss Tony Soprano proud.
On the classic HBO show — which co-starred his then-client-turned-wife as Tony’s daughter, Me♐adow — o🐠ne storyline mirrored the scheme Discala is accused of running.
Discala and his attorney, Joe Tacopina, agreed to have the accused wear an electronic monito💦🙈ring bracelet.
But they clashed with prosecutors ဣafter requesting that he be allowed to attend the purported business meetings with corporate heavyweights for what he said waꦯs a “massive” venture.
“We have concerns that this is a continuation of the fraud,” declared Assistant US Attorney Walter Norkin, adding that prosecutors would prefer that Discala work for an esta🦩blished firm rat🐼her than cut his own deals.
♔Tacopina scoffed at the suggestion his client could find work while facing a federal indictment.
“If they caℱn help him find a job, we’d be agreeable to that🅠,” he zinged. “I don’t know how employable he is right now.”
Judge Joan Azrack ruled that Discala would have to be confined to his home until the feds put forward ⭕a brief outlining theﷺir concerns about his business meetings.
Prosecutors said Discala’s alleged scam artificially inflated𒊎 shares of rickety stocks and then sold th𝓀em off to unsuspecting investors before the securities tanked.
Discala, who has remarried andꦡ has a 7-week-old daughter, did not comment as he left court.
The 43-year-old CEO at Connecticut-based investment firm OmniView Capitꦯal Advisors tied the knot with Sigler when she was 19. The marriage lasted from 2003 to 2006.
She told Page Six in 2008 that𒁃 she was relieved that she never had a child with her former manager and that Discala had controlled much of her existence during their ill-fated union.