Mob: We’d make ’em ‘pain’ pills
TWO WISEGUYS have admitted they were ready to inflict pain on a Brooklyn doctor so he’d write out lucrative oxycodone prescriptions for them.
Luchese crime family soldier Anthony Grado and another mob associate, Lawrence (Fat Larry) Tranese, pleaded guilty Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court to plotting to peddle oxycodone.
Grado and Tranese pressured the doctor to write bogus painkiller prescriptions for names the pair supplied, prosecutors said.
From 2011 to 2013, the scheme flooded the streets with over 230,000 pills, court papers said.
Grado was heard in a taped call telling the doctor he’d make the physician write “a thousand scripts a day and f---ing feed you to the f---ing lions” if the medicine man wrote out prescriptions without Grado’s OK, prosecutors said.
The wiseguy also told the doctor he’d “put a bullet right in your head,” according to prosecutors.
At one point, Grado even made one of his underlings stab the unidentified doctor, who lived through the attack.
Grado, 54, of Monroe Township, and Tranese, 55, of Brooklyn, face up to 20 years when they’re sentenced at a future date.