November 18, 2003 — A daughter of the late Chicago mob boss William "Willie Potatoes" Daddano was sentenced Tuesday to a year in federal prison for destroying bookmaking records.
Mary Daddono, 50, of Oak Brook, whose name is spelled differently from her father's, was also fined $3,000 by U.S. District Judge James F. Holderman.
Daddono grinned and hugged friends and relatives after Holderman imposed the sentence. He could have sent her to prison for as little as 10 months or as much as 16 months.
Defense attorneys claimed Daddono suffers from health problems and urged Holderman to impose sentence at the bottom of that range, which was set by federal sentencing guidelines.
Prosecutors told the judge they were agreeable to any sentence within the guideline range.
Daddono begged off when offered a chance to speak on her own behalf.
"I'm not going to make a statement," was all she said.
Her father, nicknamed "Willie Potatoes" because of his love of french fries, died in prison in 1975 after decades as one of the stalwarts of the Chicago mob.
A jury convicted Daddono on Aug. 12.
Agents testified that they had pounded on the door of her apartment on Jan. 27, 2002, the day of a National Football League playoff game between the St. Louis Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles.
They said they finally forced the door open and found Daddono dumping records written on fast-dissolving rice paper into a bucket of water. Others were torn up.
Agents salvaged some of the records, which were shown to the jury at trial. Daddono attorneys maintained that the records had nothing to do with bookmaking.
Holderman ordered Daddono to report to start serving her sentence by noon on Jan. 15. Until then, she remains free on a $4,500 recognizance bond.
Mary Daddono, 50, of Oak Brook, whose name is spelled differently from her father's, was also fined $3,000 by U.S. District Judge James F. Holderman.
Daddono grinned and hugged friends and relatives after Holderman imposed the sentence. He could have sent her to prison for as little as 10 months or as much as 16 months.
Defense attorneys claimed Daddono suffers from health problems and urged Holderman to impose sentence at the bottom of that range, which was set by federal sentencing guidelines.
Prosecutors told the judge they were agreeable to any sentence within the guideline range.
Daddono begged off when offered a chance to speak on her own behalf.
"I'm not going to make a statement," was all she said.
Her father, nicknamed "Willie Potatoes" because of his love of french fries, died in prison in 1975 after decades as one of the stalwarts of the Chicago mob.
A jury convicted Daddono on Aug. 12.
Agents testified that they had pounded on the door of her apartment on Jan. 27, 2002, the day of a National Football League playoff game between the St. Louis Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles.
They said they finally forced the door open and found Daddono dumping records written on fast-dissolving rice paper into a bucket of water. Others were torn up.
Agents salvaged some of the records, which were shown to the jury at trial. Daddono attorneys maintained that the records had nothing to do with bookmaking.
Holderman ordered Daddono to report to start serving her sentence by noon on Jan. 15. Until then, she remains free on a $4,500 recognizance bond.
