{"id":326926,"date":"2026-08-21T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326926\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:26:45","slug":"alleged-caterer-kingpin-asks-staten-island-judge-for-treatment-over-possible-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326926\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Caterer Kingpin Asks Staten Island Judge for Treatment Over Possible Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ettore Mazzei is seeking substance use treatment instead of incarceration after a 2024 drug sweep on Staten Island. During a court appearance Thursday in state Supreme Court in St. George, a treatment program reviewed his diversion request. Defense attorney Mark Fonte said Mazzei has battled substance abuse for decades and needs treatment. TASC said Mazzei&#8217;s case does not meet the standards for its diversion program after two interviews. The defense wants a hearing, while the judge said he will review both sides before deciding. The prosecution has offered Mazzei 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ettore Mazzei is seeking substance use treatment instead of incarceration after a 2024 drug sweep on Staten Island.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10907,65996,123020,28311,123022,9,24,63,51229,134,136,135,123021],"class_list":["post-326926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-court-appearance","tag-diversion-program","tag-ettore-mazzei","tag-incarceration","tag-mark-fonte","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-state-supreme-court","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-treatment-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326926","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=326926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}