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Criminal

Feb. 21, 2023

Disbarred lawyer convicted of 1980 triple murder given compassionate release

Tom Frank Maniscalco, 78, was serving a 46-year to life sentence.

A disbarred Westminster attorney and co-founder of the Hessian outlaw motorcycle club, who was convicted in 1994 of an execution-style triple murder 14 years earlier, has been granted a compassionate release due to a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Thomas Frank Maniscalco, 78, was serving a 46-year to life sentence on three counts of second-degree murder for the shooting deaths of club member Richard Rizzone, 36, Thomas Monahan, 28, and Rizzone...

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