No parole for mobster in 1961 murder case

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19499220&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=72585&rfi=6

By Dietrich Knauth, Freeman staff
04/19/2008

ATTICA - An 83-year-old mobster's sixth chance at life outside of prison has been K.O.'d by a three-person state parole board.

Harold "K.O." Konigsberg was convicted in 1982 of the 1961 murder of New Jersey Teamsters official Anthony "Three Fingers" Castellito at Castellito's summer home in Kerhonkson, and Konigsberg has been behind bars ever since, serving a sentence of 25 years to life.

Konigsberg was paid $15,000 for the hit by Castellito's Teamsters rival, Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. Konigsberg and three other men met Castellito at his summer home, where they bludgeoned and garroted him. The body never was found.

Provenzano was tried with Konigsberg and sentenced in 1978. He died of a heart attack in a California federal prison 10 years later, at the age of 71, while serving a 20-year sentence for racketeering before ever serving time in New York for the murder.

Konigsberg has been in prison for various offenses, from extortion to theft, since 1963.

His parole request was denied last week. His next parole hearing is set for April 2010.

[DesertFlower]

1. good. nt

[notfullofit]

2. Life's a b****

and then you die.