The ex-husband of Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Dina Manzo was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday, reports AP News. 

Her ex-husband, 59-year-old Thomas Manzo, paid a well-known mobster to attack her boyfriend. In return, the mobster was promised a lavish wedding reception at Thomas’s restaurant.

Once he finishes his prison sentence, Thomas will have to spend three years under supervised release. A federal jury found him guilty in June of conspiracy, falsifying and concealing documents, and committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity. 

Federal prosecutors say that Thomas Manzo hired John Perna, who is known to be part of the Lucchese crime family, to carry out an attack in July 2015. During this attack, Dina’s boyfriend was beaten with a weapon. The following month, Perna’s wedding reception took place at a restaurant in Paterson that Thomas partly owned.

Perna pleaded guilty in December 2020 to a violent crime related to illegal activities and was sentenced to 2½ years in prison. He was released in August 2023. Dina Manzo’s boyfriend is now her husband.

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