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2011-03-30/2011-05-16

CourtListener RECAP archive, docket of the U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y.

United States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060 (E.D.N.Y.), docket entries for the 2011 trial

Minute entries for Vincent Basciano's 2011 capital trial. Joseph Massino was called as a witness on five days in April 2011, and on May 16, 2011 the "Jury renders a guilty verdict on all three counts."

Date
2011-03-30/2011-05-16
Kind
case-file
Source
CourtListener RECAP archive, docket of the U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y.
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
1:05-cr-00060
Rights
Docket entries of a United States District Court, reproduced by CourtListener's RECAP archive from PACER. Federal court records are works of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

Minute entries of the Eastern District of New York for the trial of Vincent Basciano before Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. The jury was empaneled after selection on April 11, 2011. The entry for April 12 reads: “Jury Trial as to Vincent Basciano held on 4/12/2011. Opening statements. Witnesses called: Glen Santoro, Matthew Steiner and Joseph Massino.” Massino is listed again as a witness on April 13, 14, 18 and 21, 2011.

The entry for May 6, 2011 reads: “Witness called: Salvatore Vitale and Carlos Medina; Defense rests.” The docket does not say which side called Vitale, and nothing more is read into it here.

On May 16, 2011: “Jury renders a guilty verdict on all three counts; See verdict sheet.” The charges were the conspiracy to murder and the murder of Randolph Pizzolo in aid of racketeering, as described in the district court’s January 2011 opinion. The opinion records that Massino had become a government informant; with it, this docket is the court record of his testimony at the trial.

itemUnited States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060 (E.D.N.Y.), docket entries for the penalty verdict, judgment and mandateOn June 1, 2011 the penalty-phase jury in Vincent Basciano's capital case returned "A SENTENCE OF LIFEIMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASE" (as the docket runs the words together). Judgment followed in July 2011; the Second Circuit's mandate of April 22, 2016 affirms it.itemUnited States v. Basciano, 763 F. Supp. 2d 303 (E.D.N.Y. 2011)Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis rules on Vincent Basciano's pretrial motions in the capital case over the killing of Randolph Pizzolo. The opinion quotes the court's earlier finding that "Joseph Massino, the then-head of the Bonanno crime family, agreed to become a government informant and taped conversations in prison that he had with Basciano."