CITY PAPER: TV News Babe Alycia Lane Has New Friends in the Mafia
source www.citypaper.net
January 9, 2008
Deposed local-TV-news babe Alycia Lane has some newfound friends and
fans in the mafia. "Tell Alycia, welcome to the criminal enterprise.
She doesn't want to cover us; she wants to be one of us," says Ruth Ann
Seccio, former mistress of mob-boss-turned-rat Ralph Natale. In fact,
Seccio thinks more highly of Lane since she was arrested last month for
allegedly slugging a female New York City police officer.
Lane visited Merlino at the Hudson County prison in South Kearny, N.J.,
in December 2003. There, the charismatic 40-year-old mob boss was
awaiting trial for the 1996 murder of Joseph Sodano, a member of the
local mob's North Jersey faction. Merlino told friends that Lane's
arrival at the prison was the highlight of visiting day. She had to go
through a metal detector and into a large waiting room where 70
prisoners sat in cubicles behind thick Plexiglas windows. As would be
expected, the head-turner stopped prisoners' conversations midsentence
as they paused to stare. Merlino and Lane had a friendly chat and he
promised to consider doing an interview with her after the trial.
(Merlino was eventually found not guilty of ordering the Sodano
hit; he'll remain in federal custody in Marion, Ill. on other charges
until 2011, according to the inmate locator on the Bureau of Prison's
Web site.)
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