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!
Easiest and most prefect way is to make it look as if your intended victim has dirt on the Clintons, problem solved!
Not to derail the thread or anything, but didn’t Hitlery destroy far more than two iphones? Why do we never hear of the potential sentence she faces?
some things you don’t delegate. If the Evil Queen had taken out Snow White herself, guess who would still be fairest in the land?
You just can't trust anyone these days. Neither the wife, nor the wife's boyfriend.
Lying and crying, the Jussie Skillet defense.
Yep...cloths and sledgehammers came to mind when I read this.
Oh and...is there any doubt Hillary wouldn’t have Bill whacked if the need arose?
Generally speaking, if you have a secret, and one other person knows the secret, it’s not a secret.
I agree that “murder for hire” is one of the stupidest crimes anyone can commit. If you don’t know the “hit man” you are probably going to be recorded and very possibly end up on an episode of some crime show or other. If you do know the “hit man” that’s still a likely outcome. Even if he’s a family member and not wearing a wire, given the choice between your skin and his, he’s going to choose his.
Even some otherwise ruthless criminals may have some sort of conscience in some areas. I watched a program a while back where a woman persuaded her husband to kill her ex-husband and the father of her child. While in jail, the husband could not resist boasting about the crime to his cellmate, a man who was in on drug charges.
The cellmate promptly ratted him out. It turned out that this tough criminal was outraged at the murder. “They killed that man for no reason- they killed him for trying to be a good father!” You could hear the genuine outrage in his voice. If the killing had been a drug deal gone bad he wouldn’t have batted an eye, but killing a man because he wanted to be a part of his child’s life was more than he could stomach.
I still have a tape recording of my x-FIL offering (to my x) to shoot me in the head and bury me in the woods.
Of course, there’s that too.
As in “I got a .45 and a shovel. No one will miss” ‘him’?
Well let’s not get crazy...
That was a fun twist on an old story line :)
If he’s into S&M :)
:-)
yep
It’s VERY obvious to the police!
But it was also VERY, VERY obvious that the guy who ran down Gotti’s kid was murdered by Gotti or friends of Gotti.
Didn’t matter.
But I always through Gotti wasn’t physically involved.
Now they are saying he was and in a brutal kind of way.
Not that *I* have anyone I'd like "disposed of" ... just saying where the best place to do it is.
I’m guessing that they have lowered the bar.
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