Vittorio “Little Vic” Amuso, the 88-year-old former boss of the Luchese crime family, says his health is falling apart in federal prison, and his lawyers describe him as a changed man “staring down his mortality.”
A court filing last week describes a pitiful convalescence in federal prison in Butner, N.C. — his chronic arthritis is so bad, he can’t get around without a wheelchair, his vision is clouded and worsening, he’s lost all of his teeth, and his pleas for medical help are not answered promptly.
In order to get the help he needs, he often has to make written requests, like one in March that read: “I need a cortisone shot in my hip and knee and I’m in severe pain please if there is a god help me with this as I am 90 years old and in severe pain.”
