“Gentleman Gambler’s” son gets 5 months in prison

By Jeremy Roebuck, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Joey Mastronardo grew up in the shadow of two towering figures – his father, a twice-convicted sports bookmaker with a national reputation, and his maternal grandfather, Frank L. Rizzo, Philadelphia’s law-and-order mayor and police commissioner.

In adulthood, prosecutors said Tuesday, “the apple didn’t fall far from [his father’s] tree.”

Mastronardo, 33, was sentenced to five months in prison and five months’ house arrest for his role in a family gambling business that his father turned into a multimillion-dollar Internet profit center. He pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, illegal gambling, and money laundering last year.

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