 | Esposito is now back living with his mother under house arrest inside her $8.3 million E. 77th St. townhouse, a home with a long mob history.
His mother Olympia Esposito, the Chin’s longtime mistress, took ownership of the property in 1983 when mobbed-up executive Morris Levy transferred the building into her name for $16,000. Even then, the building was valued at $1 million. A search of the four-story home after Esposito’s arrest turned up $3.8 million in cash stuffed inside old ammunition boxes, sacks, shoe boxes and envelopes.
The building also came under FBI scrutiny in the 1980s as the feds pursued Gigante, considered the city’s most powerful mob boss. | |
