A mob turncoat who admitted to helping kill five people ā including a Brooklyn cop š ā landed just 12 years behind bars Tuesday.
And, thankās to time served, Colombo soldier Joseph āJoey Cavesā Competiello will be out in fewer than six years.
Competiello, 43, pleaded guilty to the slayings as part of his government agreement to testify againsāt his crime-family associates. That deal saved him from a potential life sentence.
Judge Brian Cogan, armed with a leniency plea from prosecutors, called Competielloās coopš§øeration āextraordinary.ā
Key to the sentencing deal was the fact tšhat Competiello testified against fellow mobster Dino āLšittle Dinoā Saracino during Saracinoās trial in the slaying of NYPD Officer Ralph Dols.
Dols was married to the ex-wife of reputed Coš¼lombo acting boss Joel āJoe šWaverlyā Cacace.
Competiello testified he was the lookout man and at the wheel of a ācrash carā that was to be ready to ram any responding police cruiser after Saracino and another hit man gunned down Dols outside his Sheepshead Bay
home in August 1997.
The murder was ą·“a cold case for years until Comāpetiello revealed Saracinoās alleged role as part of a federal deal.
Despite Comšpetielloās testimony, Saracino, Cacace and another mob bosļ·½s, Thomas āTommy Shotsā Gioeli, were acquitted in the copās murder.
But Competielloās testimony did help prļ·½osecutors put them away ź¦on other charges.