Aging former Boston mobster Vincent “The Animal” Ferrara is suing Attorney General Maura Healey, claiming the guv hopeful’s office wrongfully swiped a bunch of his money — and he wants it back.
Ferrara, now 73 and of Revere, alleges that Healey’s assistant attorneys general rolled in last September with a warrant and confiscated $268,000 across two bank accounts in his name as part of some sort of new enforcement operation.
This is the latest in a line of encounters between Ferrara and the law that have had a mixed bag of outcomes. Ferrara, a former “capo de regime” lieutenant in the Boston North End mob, was sentenced to 22 years in prison in the early 1990s on racketeering charges — only for the same judge 17 years later to spring him when it came to light that the prosecution had withheld key evidence related to a 1980s gangland slaying that was one of several charges he’d pleaded guilty in connection with.
