He had failed to pay $100,000 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and had hidden some personal assets under the names of relatives.

In 1994, Graziano ordered his crew to find and kill John Pappa and Calvin Hennigar, both mobsters with the Colombo crime family.

[citation needed] On one occasion, the two men had fired shots inside a topless bar in Staten Island owned by Graziano, wounding one patron.

At the New York sentencing, Graziano's lawyer asked for leniency, saying that his client had diabetes and had survived two episodes of bladder cancer.

Renee also participated in the UK series Celebrity Big Brother 18, as well as WEtv's Marriage Boot Camp.