Posted on 06/08/2019 1:04:13 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
The scene was more surreal than the accusation: The 12-year NYPD veteran busted for hiring a hit man to whack her estranged husband now begging for his help.
Imprisoned officer Valerie Cincinelli, her weeping audible via speakerphone Thursday in a Nassau County courtroom, proclaimed her innocence in a pair of murder-for-hire plots before directly addressing her skeptical spouse Isaiah Carvalho.
“Isaiah, can you hear me?” asked Cincinelli in a disembodied voice as their divorce case hearing wound to a close. “Hello, can you hear me? You know I didn’t do this. You know me for how many years? You frickin’ know me. You know I’m a good mom.”
A stone-faced Carvalho, whose “death” was staged earlier this month as part of the federal case against his wife, sat mutely and stared down at a courtroom table while Cincinelli spoke. The two were married four years ago, and Carvalho sued his wife for divorce last year in Nassau County Supreme Court.
By then, she was cheating with a boyfriend who contacted the FBI and wore a wire against Cincinelli after she asked him to locate a shooter this past February.
Cincinelli earlier noted that she was only charged and not convicted when the subject turned to an order of protection granted to her 5-year-old son in the wake of her May 17 arrest for the alleged schemes to execute Carvalho and the 15-year-old daughter of her beau John DiRubba.
“Your honor, it’s an allegation,” said Cincinelli, 34, who remains locked up inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. “And I’m going to be found not guilty. I assure you that. It’s just going to take a little time.
"I raised (my son). I’ve done everything for him, and I didn’t do anything wrong. It’s an allegation.”
Her stressed-out spouse declined to discuss the case against his wife, who was indicted Thursday on two counts of murder for hire and one for obstruction of justice. Prosecutors charged that she allegedly destroyed a pair of iPhones in a failed cover-up of the planned homicides.
She was busted after DiRubba, a mob wannabe described by a former neighbor as a “poor man’s Tony Soprano," cooperated with the FBI to bring her down. The suspect turned homicidal toward DiRubba’s 15-year-old daughter because the girl was cutting into the couple’s time together, authorities alleged.
The high school student, like Carvalho, escaped unharmed after DiRubba contacted the FBI and the wheels were set in motion for Cincinelli’s arrest.
Both her lawyer in the divorce matter and her criminal defense attorney asserted their client was innocent.
"I don’t think she did any of this,” said marital attorney Vincent Trimarco. “There was never any indication to me that she did any of this or that anything like this was possible.”
Defense attorney James Kousouros, who took on the case last week, echoed those sentiments.
“We are contesting these charges vigorously,” he said. "There’s clearly more than to this case than meets the eye. We intend to prove Ms. Cincinelli’s innocence in this matter.”
Carvalho said he was unaware of the indictment unsealed Thursday against his wife. At the end of the Long Island hearing, the husband was granted access to the couple’s home to pick up their son’s belongings.
Cincinelli was arrested after federal agents staged a murder scene using the still-alive Carvalho. The “victim” was posed slumping into the passenger seat of his car, and authorities scattered broken glass across the floor and Carvalho’s supposed corpse. A Suffolk County detective actually visited Cincinelli’s Long Island home to notify her of the husband’s fake murder.
Authorities said the bogus death pic of Carvalho was texted to Cincinelli on her cell phone. Under the deal with the “hit man,” the cost for killing Carvalho was $7,000 while the slaying of the teenager would add $3,000 to the terrible tab, authorities said.
According to the indictment, Cincinelli trashed an iPhone 6 and an iPhone X Max to prevent their use in a grand jury investigation of the alleged double murder plot.
If convicted, the maximum prison sentence for murder for hire is 10 years —while obstruction of justice carries a potential 20-year term.
The callous Cincinelli — the mother of a 10-year-old daughter from a previous relationship — was unmoved when the phony hit man blanched at the plan to murder the teen near a New Jersey school, according to a source.
“Run her the f–-- over," she allegedly replied. "How about that?”
This lady apparently thought that she could commit a perfect crime...
Maybe the writer for BLUE BLOODS should research this case for an episode next season.
This kind of thing was MAYBE possible when the person asking for the hit wasn’t a complete big mouth wacko and the code of Omerta still reigned supreme in the Mafia.
Now a mafioso would exchange info on his role in such a murder to get a week taken off his sentence.
and VERY FEW people have Real mafia connections.
And unless it is family, the mafioso that does it for you extracts a HUGE price at the time and sometimes into the future.
DON’T ask a boyfriend or a lover or a neighbor or the mailman who you heard is tough to do the hit.
They will run to the FBI and you’ll get caught.
Better yet, DON’T TRY TO HAVE ANYONE KILLED!!! :)
I would think most hitmen would charge more than $3000.00 to take out their OWN 15 year old daughters (if I’m reading this story correctly) even though some teenagers can be a bit trying.
“Isaiah, can you hear me?” asked Cincinelli in a disembodied voice as their divorce case hearing wound to a close. “Hello, can you hear me? You know I didn’t do this. You know me for how many years? You frickin’ know me. You know I’m a good mom.”
Well, if he stays married, he’ll know where she is. There are conjugal visits. Just, you know, be careful.
It appears to me that the boyfriend agreed to help her contact a potential murderer for her husband, but the boyfriend was not, himself, the “hitman,” that is, FBI employee, and the woman set up the attack on the boyfriend’s daughter without the boyfriend’s knowledge.
It’s weird that she could get 10 years for trying to buy two murders but 20 years for destroying evidence.
Isaiah! Who you gonna believe, me or ya lyin’ eahs!!
The lady was a NY police officer. You would think she would know this. Or has NYPD completely lowered their bar.
How did a woman this crazy and self centered get so far in life without it being apparent earlier?
I expect it to be a Life Time movie.
How about don’t ask a man to have his 15 yr old daughter wacked.
Yes bar lowered for women and minorities.
Oxygen has a new movie ‘Murder for Hire’ on
The #1 suspect in a spouse's murder is always the other spouse.
The #1 suspect in an ex-spouses murder is always the ex-spouse.
FBI Statistics bear out that in the majority of both the above cases, it's fact that a spouse / ex-spouse has committed the murder.
She also has a ten year old daughter from a previous relationship. It doesn’t appear she has custody. She had her badge and gun removed last year for undisclosed reasons. People knew she was crazy.
She’s got those psycho eyes
“If someone absolutely needs to be done in, better to do it yourself.”
In a matter like this for those without any real valid connections, doing it yourself would be a must as you are the only one you can trust.
However, if you have any known associations with the victim, you’re gonna be a suspect. If you have a conscience, you will give yourself away. If you leave any forensics, you’re gonna get caught.
The best thing to do is just move on and get over it.
It was disclosed. Spending time at boyfriends while supposed to be working. This woman is a real slut.
Destroying evidence is a crime against the government while the two attempted murders are merely crimes against individuals. Your death is only half as important as making some civil "servant's" job a little more difficult.
Because she is not a man.
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