Yet another reason not to wear fur

Jailbird son bit in plotting Easter mom hit

BY SCOTT SHIFREL DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, April 11th 2007, 4:00 AM

Joseph Salvio

He spent Lent at Rikers, then reserved a spot in hell when he hired a hit man on Good Friday to murder his mom on Easter, prosecutors said yesterday.

Joseph Salvio, 30, of Astoria, Queens, was taped offering an undercover officer three of his mother's fur coats - a mink, a fox and a raccoon worth $10,000 - to kill her, prosecutors said.

"The defendant, in hiring a hit man to kill his own mother for his personal greed, violated almost every ethical and moral code of our society," Assistant District Attorney Jason Garelick said.

Salvio, a mechanic with a drug record and a history of conflict with his 54-year-old mom, Susan Allogramento, allegedly wanted to inherit her upstate home, Queens condo and proceeds from a life insurance policy, said NYPD Sgt. Robert Delaney.

Salvio was busted in January for crack cocaine and got four months in jail. There, he allegedly told another inmate he wanted to hire a hit man, Delaney said.

That led to a meeting with an undercover cop posing as a killer on Friday, three days before Salvio's release, prosecutors said. Salvio had planned to use jail as an "airtight alibi" for himself, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Salvio gave the undercover his mom's address and phone number - and the idea the murder was to look like it occurred during a robbery, court documents show.

"'If the [mother's] boyfriend is there, throw him a beating but don't kill him,'" Salvio told the undercover, Delaney said.

"Leave me alone. I'm upset enough," Allogramento said yesterday.

Salvio's lawyer, Georgia Rattray-Gray, said her client has a history of mental problems.

The wispy 5-foot-8, 120-pound Salvio was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court yesterday. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and was held without bail.

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