Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A New York woman whose husband had hired a hit-man to kill her forgave her bungling husband in court and asked the judge for leniency, a report said Friday. The New York Post said jaws dropped as a sobbing Joann Ermmarino, 42, asked a judge to have mercy on 44-year-old race-car driver Albert "Fast Al" Ermmarino. Advertisement Her plea was followed by similar pleas for leniency by Ermmarino's younger brother, Rocco, and his nephew John Meschoff III, both of whom also had been marked for death. The couple's marriage was failing, and Fast Al apparently believed his wife was having an affair with his brother, while his nephew allegedly beat him up in a fight over the divorce, the report said. The hit-man he hired was actually an undercover police officer. The judge appeared moved by the appeals, but nonetheless gave Ermmarino three to nine years behind bars, in accordance with his plea to conspiring to bump off the trio.
