{"id":14340,"date":"2025-10-23T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14340\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:28:17","slug":"mobbed-up-nba-gambling-suspect-nicholas-fat-nick-minucci-did-time-for-infamous-2005-howard-beach-hate-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14340\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mobbed-up\u2019 NBA gambling suspect Nicholas \u2018Fat Nick\u2019 Minucci did time for infamous 2005 Howard Beach hate attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the mobbed-up suspects<\/a> busted in the NBA gambling scheme is Nicholas \u201cFat Nick\u201d Minucci \u2014 whose vicious, racially charged baseball bat beating of a black man in Howard Beach, Queens, captivated New Yorkers for months <\/a>more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n

Minucci \u2014 a Gambino associate who now stands accused of playing on \u201ccheating teams\u201d in the rigged card games \u2014\u00a0was convicted of the vile hate crime assault on then 22-year-old Glenn Moore in 2006.<\/p>\n

Minucci, who was then 19 years old,\u00a0chased down Moore on the morning of June 29, 2005 and hit him in the head with a Louisville Slugger while shouting the n-word.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicholas \u201cFat Nick\u201d Minucci was convicted of a hate crime assault on then 22-year-old Glenn Moore in 2006. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cYou f- \u2013 -ing n- \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 -! What are you doing in my neighborhood?\u201d\u00a0he shouted, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

At his dramatic three-week-long trial, Minucci \u2014\u00a0who was not a known mob associate at the time \u2014\u00a0claimed he wasn\u2019t a bigot and said he only chased down Moore because he thought he\u2019d come to Howard Beach to steal cars.<\/p>\n

Fat Nick, who reportedly lost 50 pounds as his case played out, also tried to argue that the \u201cn-word\u201d is so commonly used by rappers that it had lost much of its racist punch.<\/p>\n

Minucci\u2019s friend,\u00a0Frankie Agostini, also testified against him, describing the horrifying cracking sound the bat made as it struck Moore\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounded like Barry Bonds hit a home run. Bing! Like that,\u201d Agostini testified in Queens Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Moore\u00a0suffered from a fractured skull and\u00a0 \u201cdementia as a result of head trauma,\u201d said Dr. Steven Cercy, a neuro-psychologist\u00a0who testified at Minucci\u2019s trial in June 2006.<\/p>\n

Glenn Moore was beaten in the head with a bat by Minucci. AP<\/p>\n

A Queens jury ultimately found Minucci guilty<\/a> after deliberating for less than seven hours, and he was ultimately sentenced to 15 years behind bars. It was not clear when he was released, but he was eligible for parole in 2019. <\/p>\n

Minucci \u2014 who once said in an interview<\/a> that he was first called \u201cFat Nick\u201d at age 9 and said he spent a lot of time playing cards in prison \u2014 had also previously been charged with another bias attack for\u00a0shooting paintballs at Sikhs outside a Queens temple on 9\/11, law-enforcement sources said in 2005.<\/p>\n

Minucci was sentenced to 15 years behind bars in 2006. AP<\/p>\n

An X-ray card table allegedly used in the NBA gambling scheme. US Attorney \/ EDNY<\/p>\n

He also dodged a legal bullet in 2004<\/a> when the attempted murder charges he faced in a stabbing case were reduced after the victim mysteriously died before a trial.<\/p>\n

Back then, Minucci had been accused in the 2002 stabbing of then-15-year-old John Rich of Broad Channel, who the following year fell under the wheels of an A train at the Beach 98th Street station in Queens.<\/p>\n

Rich\u2019s family at first thought Minucci may have had something to do with his death but later came to believe it was due to errors by transit workers.<\/p>\n

In that case, \u00a0Minucci pleaded guilty to lesser charges of assault, and got five years\u2019 probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the mobbed-up suspects busted in the NBA gambling scheme is Nicholas \u201cFat Nick\u201d Minucci \u2014 whose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10685,6239,57,10378,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-14340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-hate-crimes","9":"tag-mafia","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-nba-gambling-scandal-2025","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}