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        <title><![CDATA[‘Mob Wives’ star Drita D’Avanzo’s husband gets five years for gun charge]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Mob Wives” star Drita D’Avanzo’s reputed mobster hubby was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty in Brooklyn court to being a felon in possession of a gun.</p><p>D&#8217;Avanzo was in the gallery as federal Judge Rachel Kovner gave her husband, Lee D’Avanzo, a twice-convicted bank burglar, 64 months in prison &#8212; well more than what prosecutors asked for &#8212; citing his lengthy criminal history and the seriousness of his crime.</p><p>Prosecutors had recommended just 37 to 46 months.</p><p class="p1">“The defendant had two guns in the house with his kids, and they were loaded with hollow-point ammunition,&#8221; the judge said as Lee, 51, stood before her. &#8220;At the time, there was other contraband in the house.”</p><p class="p1">The judge also referenced Lee&#8217;s 2009 conviction for trying to break into a Staten Island bank vault using high-speed drills.</p><p>The proceeding was the first in-person hearing in the downtown Brooklyn courthouse since the coronavirus pandemic shut it down in March &#8212; and Lee&#8217;s loyal wife, 44, was in the gallery.</p><p>Drita — who starred on the VH1 reality-TV show for six seasons — penned a handwritten letter to the judge describing Lee as an “amazing father” to their two daughters.</p><p>“He has a family that is fully supporting him and hoping he comes home soon,&#8221; she wrote.</p><p>Lee was charged earlier this year with being a felon in possession after investigators executed a search warrant at his Staten Island home and found two Smith &amp; Wesson firearms loaded with hollow-point bullets.</p><p>One gun was stashed in a kitchen cabinet above the refrigerator, while the other was under the couple’s mattress in their master bedroom.</p><p>Authorities also seized an assortment of pills, as well as more than a pound of marijuana in a kitchen cabinet that could be accessed by their then-12 year-old daughter, officials said.</p><p>Initially, Drita and Lee <strong>were hit with a slew of charges in Richmond County Court</strong> — including criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child.</p><p>After the feds swooped in and busted Lee over the incident, the Richmond County DA <strong>dropped the charges against the couple.</strong></p><p>As part of a plea bargain in Brooklyn federal court, he copped to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.</p><p>The couple’s criminal entanglements have lived up to the show’s storyline, which followed a group of Staten Island women with relatives in the mob.</p><p>Hot-tempered Drita, who starred on the series until it was canceled in 2016, was known for on-air brawls with her nemesis, Karen Gravano — <strong>the daughter of Sammy the Bull.</strong></p><p>On her bio page for the show, Drita is described as the wife of Lee, a low-level mobster “who federal prosecutors allege is the leader of a Bonanno and Colombo crime family farm team.”</p><p>According to a friend who wrote a letter to the judge asking for leniency, Lee’s father was murdered when he was 7, and that trauma sent him down the wrong path.</p><p>Lee’s rap-sheet has spanned 18 years, and he has served time for assaulting a victim with a lug wrench, two bank burglaries and narcotics trafficking, according to federal prosecutors.</p><p>He has six criminal convictions, including four felonies.</p><p>Lee still faces charges in Monmouth County Court in NJ for conspiracy to possess marijuana and possession of marijuana, according to court papers.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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