{"id":271705,"date":"2026-06-19T04:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271705\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:22:06","slug":"joseph-cutaia-sentencing-nyc-mob-associates-court-date-set-for-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271705\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Cutaia sentencing: NYC mob associate’s court date set for June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A sentencing date has been set for a reputed Lucchese crime family associate in a federal extortion case, while the defendant\u2019s half-brother was sentenced recently on Staten Island for unrelated crimes. <\/p>\n

Joseph Cutaia, 47, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty last year after prosecutors said he shook down two businessmen for cash and luxury watches, records show. <\/p>\n

A sentencing hearing initially scheduled for Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court was adjourned to June 23, court documents indicated on Thursday. <\/p>\n

A disposition in the 2024 case comes nearly six months after the defendant\u2019s half-brother \u2014 Anthony Cutaia, 37, of Rossville \u2014 was sentenced to 32 years in prison for unrelated burglaries across several Staten Island<\/a> neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Extortion case included ominous screenshot: Feds<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors in the Joseph Cutaia extortion case \u2014 as part of their pre-sentencing arguments in Brooklyn federal court \u2014 alleged the defendant sent an ominous message to one of his extortion victims in late 2023.<\/p>\n

It was a screenshot of the defendant\u2019s bio from the \u201cMob Facts\u201d website. He was described on the site as the grandson of deceased Lucchese capo Domenico Cutaia and was speculated to be \u201ca future force to be reckoned with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLucchese Crime family Associate Joseph Cutaia (T-L) Son of Soldier Salvatore (B-R) & Grandson of deceased Various Crew CAPO Domenico (B-L) has been released from Prison. Speculated to be a future force to be reckoned with,\u201d the bio reads, according to the government\u2019s court filings.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the defendant at one point also showed up at the victim\u2019s offices in New York to demand the victim either pay him or hire him.<\/p>\n

In one message to the victim, he allegedly wrote: \u201cMaybe next time you will think before you speak.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a separate occasion, he sent a message warning, \u201cI don\u2019t care who\u2019s listening [I\u2019m] going to put you under that building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Cutaia\u2019s attorney, Gary Cutler, wrote in a court filing that his client considered the victim a friend.<\/p>\n

Cutler also stated that his client was commended by the warden at Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn for preventing his cellmate from dying by suicide by hanging.<\/p>\n

Brothers previously sentenced in \u201909 attempted heist\"CutaiaIn this June 25, 2025 photo, burglary defendant Anthony Cutaia stands before a judge in state Supreme Court, St. George. (Steve White for the Advance\/SILive.com)Steve White for the Advance\/SILive.com<\/p>\n

Joseph Cutaia and Anthony Cutaia were among those convicted about 15 years ago of an attempted heist in Brooklyn, records show.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Anthony Cutaia acted as the driver when the crew targeted a Brooklyn electronics store in late 2009.<\/p>\n

Joseph Cutaia received a heftier sentence than his brother did, according to Advance\/SILive.com reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A sentencing date has been set for a reputed Lucchese crime family associate in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-271705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271705","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=271705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}