New York Daily News

Ex-Post driver punches ticket to fed pen for beating pal

- Andrew Keshner

A HULKING ex-New York Post truck driver will serve three months in federal lockup for delivering a furious beatdown that left a childhood friend writhing on a sidewalk.

Thomas Leonessa, 56, was sentenced in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday.

He was caught on July 2016 surveillan­ce footage punching and kicking his estranged friend and then smashing phone.

Leonessa spent four months behind bars in 2016 for his no-show job at the fact-challenged tabloid. the man’s cell

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