Bronx cheer for mobster’s dream

CAN’T AN OLD gangster just die in peace?

Brooklyn federal prosecutors have an answer: Not a chance.

There’s a brewing courtroom clash over the last days of a reputed Luchese soldier, the Daily News has learned.

Frank (Frankie Pearl) Federico, 90 and ailing, wants to end his supervised release early so he can die in Italy among family and friends.

But prosecutors have no interest in letting the Bronx wiseguy live out la dolce vita in the country where he was born.

Now the dispute is up to a judge who once called Federico a “cold-blooded murderer” and hoped he’d never leave a prison cell.

Federico’s convictions stem from the 1970s and ’80s, when the Luchese crime family controlled much of Long Island’s garbage carting business, prosecutors said.

The haulers colluded to charge high prices for their services. But in 1980, carting business owners Jerome Kubecka and his son Robert were done with the mobbed-up monopoly game. They, and Robert’s brother-in-law Donald Barstow, put in lower, competitive bids.

In 1989, Robert Kubecka, 40, and Barstow, 35, were shot in the Kubeckas’ Suffolk County office. Federico went on the lam — to Italy — for about 10 years before his 2003 bust at a Bronx doughnut shop. He pleaded guilty in exchange for 15 years in prison.