Frank “Frankie Steel” Pontillo whined at his sentencing that it’s not his fault he’s surrounded by thugs. “I didn’t invite the Five Families to gather at the opening of a bar,” he insisted. “Staten Island is very small. There’s lots of felons on the island.” The judge sympathized somewhat, but gave the 370-pound son of a mob-man six months of house arrest anyway, keeping Pontillo securely on Staten Island. [NYDN]
