BOSTON — Former North End mobster Vincent “The Animal” Ferrara’s hopes of a judge’s injunction to get Attorney General Maura Healey to give him his money back are sleeping with the fishes.
Suffolk Superior Judge Elaine Buckley has sided with Healey’s office on multiple fronts in the former wiseguy’s suit, first impounding the AG’s written response in the case and then denying the erstwhile mafioso’s injunction.
In the lawsuit, first reported by the Herald last week, the now-73-year-old Ferrara alleges that Healey’s office had seized $268,000 of what he says is a “legitimate” business venture. Per the complaint that he certified under penalty of perjury, he was acting as a “facilitator” in a real-estate deal that paid him the bulk of that dough — before investigators showed up with a warrant and seized it as part of what the AG’s office has described as a “broad, ongoing criminal investigation.”
