Jury: Tarantino guilty in slay plot
Photo credit: Handouts | Federal prosecutors say Christian Tarantino, right, had Vincent Gargiulo, left, killed "because he knew too much" about the businessman's involvement in two other murders and was trying to extort him for $500,000.
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Christian Tarantino, already facing two mandatory life sentences because of previous murder convictions, now faces a third mandatory life sentence after a jury found him guilty Monday of conspiring to kill an informant in 2003.
The anonymous jury in federal court in Central Islip agreed that Tarantino, a Dix Hills gym owner, conspired to have Vincent Gargiulo killed, but they acquitted him...
