Charlie the Hat Back Behind Bars
DeCavalcante Wiseguy Charles "Charlie the Hat" Stango, currently age 81, is back in prison after being indicted for filing a false lien against the AUSA and his own lawyer from his 2015 case, as well as aiding and abetting. (Charles "Charlie the Hat" Stango) The elderly mobster will spend the next 12 months at FCI Texarkana after filing a false lien against the AUSA, claiming that the AUSA owed him $10,000,000 for failing to respond to Stango's lawsuit, in which, Stango alleges that there was a conspiracy between the AUSA and his own defense lawyer to have him convicted on the charges he faced in 2015. At the time, Stango, a Captain in the organization, was the target of an undercover FBI investigation known as Operation Charlie Horse. He had just been released from a nine-year prison stint and was on his way to move up within the Family. Unbeknownst to him, his new protégé was undercover officer Giovanni Rocco, AKA Giovanni Gatto. (L-R: Giovanni Rocco, Dutch ...