Keep ex-cop in slay plot jailed: att’ys
Prosecutors tossed a monkey wrench into ex-NYPD cop Valerie Cincinelli’s latest bail bid Friday — arguing her plea deal in a murderfor-hire plot doesn’t mean she’s exonerated in the wicked plan.
Though she was accused of plotting to have her estranged husband, Isaiah Carvalho, and her new boyfriend’s teenage daughter killed, Cincinelli was allowed to plead guilty April 16 to an obstruction of justice charge for deleting texts related to the case.
“The government’s decision, as part of a negotiated plea agreement, to allow the defendant to plead guilty to a lesser-included offense did not, in any way, constitute an acknowledgement either that the defendant did not commit murder-for-hire or that the government would have difficulty proving that offense at a trial,” federal prosecutors wrote in a letter against Cincinelli’s application ahead of her sentencing.
“The defendant obstructed an investigation of a brazen plot, hatched by the defendant and her then-boyfriend, to have two people, one of whom was a teenager, murdered by a hitman. The motive for this plot was jealousy and hatred.”
Cincinelli asked to be released on $2 million bail immediately upon making her guilty plea, with her lawyer asserting the reduced plea made her more eligible for pre-sentencing release.
Prosecutors countered they’ve been down that road before, citing four other times Cincinelli was denied bail as well as repeated evidence showing she took part in the murder-for-hire plot, including text messages and audio recordings with her boyfriend, John Dirubba. Cincinelli did not know that DiRubba tipped off law enforcement to her deadly plans.
Prosecutors said that before Judge Joanna Seybert considers releasing Cincinelli, her intended victims should be given a chance to speak about what they think about her getting sprung from jail.
Cincinelli hasn’t responded to the filing.
Her sentencing is set for Oct. 29, when she faces up to 63 months in prison.
Seybert didn’t immediately rule on the bail application.
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