Fake Mobsters Tried To Shakedown Former Owner Of New York City Pizza Joint

Three people pleaded guilty after pretending to be mobsters in an attempt to extort nearly $200,000 from the former owner of a Brooklyn pizzeria.

54-year-old Leroy Wilson, who is an actor and goes by the name Roy James Wilson professionally, was hired by Douglas Singer and Marianne Wood to help them intimidate the previous owner of the pizzeria into giving them $198,000.

“The defendants carefully scripted an intimidation plot, even using an actor as muscle, all in an effort to extort the victim into giving them $198,000,” U.S Attorney Richard Donoghue said.

When the trio went to meet the victim, who was not identified, they brought photos of his family and "explained that it would be in the best interest of everyone for the owner to pay up."

Wilson, who was hired to be their "bodyguard," showed up wearing a “Sopranos”-style costume and at one point during the shakedown attempt, flashed a realistic looking prop gun that he had strapped to his hip.

"A group of people doing their best to act like a group of mobsters, shaking down a pizzeria owner, will now face a steep price for what they described as ‘kinda fun,'" FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney said.

All three of the defendants could get up to 20 years in jail.

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