Locascio v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GLASSER, District Judge.

A complete procedural history of this case can be found in LoCascio v. U.S., 372 F.Supp.2d 304, 307 n. 2 (E.D.N.Y. 2005), familiarity with which is assumed. Briefly, however, this decision is yet another arising from a motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in which LoCascio claims he was ineffectively assisted by his counsel, Anthony Cardinale, who, he alleges, labored under a conflict of interest. That claim is bottomed upon Cardinale’s revelation 8 years after LoCascio’s conviction and after John Gotti died that Gotti threatened to kill him if, in…