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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The son of an infamous New York City mob boss, Vincent 'Chin' Gigante pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy on Wednesday.

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The deal means Vincent Esposito will have to forfeit $3.8 million, but feds won't see a sentence of more than 30 months.

Esposito was supposed to go on trial June 17. He is the love child of Gigante, the Genovese family boss known to walk Greenwich Village in a bath robe, and Olympia Esposito. 'Chin' Gigante was dubbed 'The Oddfather' for feigning mental illness to dodge prosecution, but died in prison n 2005.

Esposito, 51, was accused by the government of extorting a union official with threats of violence. He was arrested in January 2018, and had been under house arrest in his mother's Upper East Side townhouse.

Feds say he was shaking down a food workers union for $10,000 dating back to 2001. A search of his mother's home turned up $3.8 million in cash that was hidden in shoe boxes, envelopes, and bags, the New York Post reports.

Another of Gigante's sons, Andrew, pleaded guilty to racketeering and extortion in 2003, and received a 2 year sentence.

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