Chris Paciello feature in the NY Post

In 2006, as he neared the final weeks of a six-year stretch for murder and bank robbery, Chris Paciello faced something worse than prison: witness protection.

He had ratted out the upper echelon of the Colombo and Bonanno crime families, so the former nightclub king of Miami was in no position to be walking around under his own name, the threat of a track-suit hit team lurking at every turn.

A deal would mean a new identity and instant cash — as much as $20,000 — to get a car, a job and a place to live, plus $3,000 a month for bills. True, he’d be forced to sell insurance or peddle machine parts in a rural town like Eau Claire or Des Moines. But at least he’d be alive.


For Paciello, a chiseled,, swaggering figure who had dated the likes of Madonna, J.Lo, Daisy Fuentes and Sofia Vergara, that was no option. Death was better than Wisconsin.

So this year, Paciello opened a club in Miami, thumbing his nose at the relatives of his victim and taunting the godfathers he helped put away.

You want revenge? I’m right here.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/l ... z24dzhTKCw

I think a lot of people who do associate with him are not from NY or NJ because if they were they'd know better...

I went to the Bianca opening party. It was not very good.

Didn't Delano get bought recently? Does he still work there?

The Delano is up for sale.

Chris is moving on to something else.

The commenters in the New York Post thread are echoing Club Legend's sentiments.

It's funny, when Chris was gone, people said:

- If Chris comes back he's going to set the town on fire again.
• I'm still waiting...

- People won't accept him back into the Miami social scene.
• He's out multiple nights a week at very respectable establishments.