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NJ Housewife junkie? Read all about Danielle…
On Tuesday, The Smoking Gun website published federal court documents detailing Real Housewives on New Jersey “star” Danielle Staub’s sordid past.
The papers show that Staub, 46 (then known as Beverly Ann Merrill and sometimes as Angela Minelli) “was arrested by FBI agents in June 1986 for her role in a kidnapping plot that grew out of a cocaine deal gone bad.” Also involved was Daniel Aguilar, a guy she met while she was working for an escort service.
The papers reveal that she and Aguilar “sought to extort a $25,000 ransom from a man whose son they were holding.” The son — whom they “threatened injury or death” — “was blamed by Merrill and Aguilar for the botched drug deal, which cost them a kilo of cocaine worth about $24,000,” according to the papers.
When they were arrested, “agents discovered six kilos of cocaine and about $16,000 in cash,” according to the papers.
Staub “was charged with eight felonies, including extortion, cocaine possession and narcotics conspiracy.”
Along with Aguilar, she later became an informant and pleaded guilty to “a single felony count.” She was sentenced to five years’ probation (Aguilar got 15 years behind bars) and was ordered into a drug treatment program.
In other NJ Housewife news, Jacqueline Laurita tells US magazine that she and Danielle no longer speak.
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By Anon
June 25, 2009 9:16 AM | Link to this
I could tell that woman was bad news. I mean seriously…you don’t go trying to take out the trash at a dinner party you get invited to where children are present. It’s insulting. She always had this demeanor that she was hiding something. I’m sorry…federal documents don’t lie. She had 3 different names. Tell me that doesn’t scream suspicious.