A Boston mob associate who spent years on the run in Idaho as a cattle rancher has been sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Enrico Ponzo was convicted in November of several federal crimes including the 1989 attempted killing of Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, who later became the boss of the New England Mafia.
Ponzo fled Massachusetts in 1994.
Now 45, he pleaded with a judge on Monday to sentence him to no more than 15 years behind bars, saying he had turned his life around while living in Idaho.
But prosecutors pushed for a 40-year sentence, saying Ponzo continued to commit crimes including helping to manage a marijuana trafficking organisation.
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The judge told Ponzo he was "the personification of a career criminal".
