HE COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER: Bank Robber Sal Travella Called Persistent in 1998 Resurfaces in SDNY in 2023 and is Detained - but there's more
But there more, much more including Atlantic City connection, below the fold / paywall (support) line here
by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 21 – Sal Travella was convicted of bank robbery back in 1998 and was sentenced to 133 months in Otisville by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
On December 21, 2023 Travella was brought into the SDNY Magistrates Court. Inner City Press was there, the only media in the Mag Court, and looked Travella up. He was also involved in a 1991 robbery; the tabloids snarked that he "may not be the city's smartest bank robber, but he certainly may be one of the most persistent."
But he's still around, still a contender, albeit locked up now on consent awaiting a hearing before Judge Rakoff.
But there more, much more, below the fold / paywall (support) line here
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