2/29/2020 Wiseguy Attorney: Judge Wears Robes But She's An Evil Villain Like Goldfinger len:gaped ng land No Real Stuff About rganized Crime n's foremost EXPERT on the American Mafia Home This Week Capeci's Books Archives Log In Search 11 This Week in Gang Land By Jerry Capeci GANG LAND Exclusive February 20, 2020 Wiseguy Attorney: Judge Wears Robes But She's An Evil Villain Like Goldfinger Federal judges are not usually compared to the notorious villains of James Bond movies. But an appeals lawyer for an ailing 84-year-old Luchese wiseguy says Judge Cathy Seibel echoed the murderous character known as Goldfinger when she hit his client with a 52-month sentence for his conviction on gambling and loansharking charges. Lawyer Roger Adler, a former president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, states that the prison term Siebel gave Joseph (Big Joe) DiNapoli was the "legal system equivalent of the memorable scene" when Goldfinger tells Bond, who is strapped to a gurney and about to be cut in half by a gold laser beam, "Mr. Bond, I want you to die." The prison term, which is six months longer than the recommended maximum in his plea deal, Adler wrote in an impassioned legal memo, was the "functional equivalent of a death sentence" for his client, who has had "six separate surgeries," including "open heart surgery, a heart valve replacement, the implant of three stents, a pacemaker, and a catheter" in the last two years. DiNapoli also "suffers from Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and glaucoma, and is equipped with two hearing aids." In the movie, in which Goldfinger actually states, "Mr. Bond, I expect you to die," Agent 007, played by Sean Connery, manages to overcome his seeming impossible task and save himself as well all the gold in Fort Knox. But Adler struck out when he asked the judge to reconsider her sentence and to put off the start of DiNapoli's sentence until next month. Seibel, who acknowledged when she sentenced DiN