NEW YORK -- A mafia captain who pleaded guilty to helping oversee a racket that engaged in illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion has been sentenced to more than more six years in prison.
Alphonse Sisca, 63, was sentenced Wednesday to six years and three months.
The sentence is the latest blow for Sisca.
After he was imprisoned last year, his son died of tongue cancer, Sisca's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, his daughter-in-law got thyroid cancer and his mother-in-law passed away.
At his sentencing last week, one-time Gambino chieftain Arnold Squitieri begged US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to have mercy on Sisca.
Hellerstein said Wednesday that Sisca's sentence was tempered by the "unbroken grief'' his family has had to endure.
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