Philly Mobster From South Jersey Sentenced in Federal Court

A Camden County man with ties to the Philadelphia mob was sentenced to just over a year in federal prison Wednesday in a loan-sharking case.

Robert Ranieri, 38, who lives in Gloucester Township's Glendora section, was the mob's muscle, working with Philadelphia crime family capo Anthony Staino on usurious loans, authorities said.

He, Staino and others conspired to make such a loan to an undercover FBI agent, according to Ranieri's guilty plea earlier this year, and Ranieri was among those making threats of violence to collect payments on the loan.

Ranieri will spend 12 months and one day in prison, pay a $1,000 fine and have three years of supervised release, per the sentence handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo Robreno.