Things have changed since then, however, and both are going to do time for playing fast and loose with Uncle Sam – and Lana could end up paying $100,000 in back taxes, fines and penalties.

"It's the usual case of the wife being told, 'Shut up and do what I say,' and going along even though she knew it was wrong," said one source. "This time," the source added, "he didn't offer to take the weight, but it didn't really matter; she wasn't going to get a pass again."

Porky, 44, and Lana, 40, are not a happy couple these days. Porky moved out two years ago, leaving Lana to raise their three children in a luxurious $1 million home that is mostly to blame for the couple's current tax charges.

In addition to paying lots of cash under the table to buy it in 1995, Porky paid hundreds of thousands, also in cash, to renovate the spacious home – nestled among horse farms, corn fields and breathtaking state parks in rural

In an indictment filed last year, Lana was charged with tax fraud in 1995; Porky was hit with loansharking and a bunch of tax fraud and evasion charges from 1994 to 2000. After initially contesting their respective charges, each agreed to separate plea bargains.

Porky pleaded guilty to tax evasion and loansharking, agreed to accept sentencing guidelines that call for 57 to 71 months, and to pay back taxes, fines and penalties up to $300,000.

Lana pleaded guilty to charges that call for 10 to 16 months with at least five months spent in prison, but under a deal agreed to by assistant U.S. attorney Ruth Nordenbrook, Lana will be permitted to seek a sentence that will allow her to serve her entire confinement at home.

"She admitted her culpability in a minor aspect of this and she took responsibility for her actions," said Lana's lawyer Jeffrey Rabin. "I don't think she deserves to go to jail, her children don't deserve to lose two parents to prison and by allowing for a downward departure (from the normal sentencing guidelines) I think the government recognizes this."

Porky's lawyer declined to comment.

The nature of the Zancocchios' current case, and its resolution, are different

For one, Porky's mother Rose, a co-owner of the house where Lana and her grandchildren reside, was an alleged co-conspirator in both cases and was not charged in either. In this case, the two women used postal money orders and a joint bank account to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, according to court documents.

For another, Nordenbrook is the same prosecutor who took on Porky & Company last time. Her familiarity with the entire family caused Porky, Lana and her father some grief at an early court session when Graziano, 60, accompanied his daughter to court.

Nordenbrook cited bail restrictions that prohibited Porky from associating with Graziano, his reputed capo, and threatened to revoke Porky's bail if his father-in-law showed up to hold his daughter's hand again.

Since certain family responsibilities are more important than other family duties, Graziano stopped going to court.

If Graziano likes, he can attend Lana's sentencing however, since it's set for early next month, a week after Porky is scheduled to get his bad news from Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein.

A federal judge has ruled that mob murders are too unlike shakedown schemes to warrant extra heavy time for two Gambino gangsters convicted in an extortion conspiracy that netted them about $50 a week. 

As a result, Salvatore (Fat Sally) Scala (left) and Charles Carneglia, who the feds say have been involved in two infamous executions for John Gotti, got 63 months for being part of a shakedown of a Long Island adult video store in 2000. 

The feds say Scala, 57, was a gunman in the killings of Paul Castellano and top aide Thomas Bilotti and Carneglia was involved in the revenge murder of a Queens man who killed Gotti's 12-year-old son in a car accident. 

In a 17 page opinion, Long Island Judge Jacob Mishler never specifically addressed whether the feds had convinced him the men were mob killers, basing his decision on the narrow issue of whether the murders were similar to the extortion conspiracy charge the men were convicted of at trial.

Mishler ruled they weren't.

Meanwhile, a former Gotti associate identified in court papers as the confidential source who linked Gotti and Carneglia (right) to the 1980 slaying of John Favara, has contacted Gang Land and denied the assertion.

Through his son Michael, Richard (Red Bird) Gomes denies taking part in the killing and denied stating that he or anyone else had any role in Favara's demise.