serious drug charge if he hired her boyfriend to represent him in the case.

Bonelli claims that several months after he was arrested in July 2006 for selling half an ounce of cocaine to an undercover detective, ADA Wilkanowski, who hails from the same area of Queens as Bonelli, made him an offer that was too good for him to pass up. Sources say Wilkanowski allegedly proposed the deal to Bonelli, who was free on bail, far from the Kew Gardens courthouse where she works.

Bonelli alleges that Wilkanowski told him that if he merely signed an agreement stating he would cooperate and hired her boyfriend, Manhattan attorney Robert Kelly as his defense lawyer, the charges would essentially go away. The coke sale charge carried a maximum of 25 years. He would not actually have to become a stool pigeon, Wilkanowski allegedly told him.

“She told me that all I had to do was sign the agreement,” Bonelli told Gang Land in a brief telephone interview, adding, “she said I wouldn’t have to do anything.”

Bonelli insisted he never gave the DA’s office any information about narcotics, or anything else. When Gang Land asked how a knock around guy like Bonelli could swallow the ADA’s offer as one she could deliver, he replied: “I asked her how she could do it, and she told me to just sign it and she would take care of the rest, something about they look at effort and don’t worry about it.” 

Sources say that through his current lawyer, Bonelli also alleged that he socialized with Wilkanowski following his drug

arrest, and has pictures to prove it. He also alleges that Kelly was aware of the agreement that he had with Wilkanowski, and can prove that too.

Gang Land was unable to ask Bonelli about those points. Shortly after the interview began, Bonelli ended the conversation to take a call from his lawyer, Virginia Alvarez, who was scheduled to meet with him that day to discuss his case. Soon after, Alvarez contacted Gang Land and declined further comment. 

Wilkanowski, who has been on leave since December 17, did not respond to repeated telephone messages. Neither did Kelly, who began representing Bonelli in November of 2006 and recused himself from the case about five weeks ago for reasons that are not publicly available. 

Contacted yesterday by Gang Land, Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for Queens DA Brown, declined to confirm or deny our account, or if Wilkanowski is slated to return. He stated only that Brown's office investigates all allegations that are brought to the DA’s attention. 

According to court records, on December 27, 2006, Bonelli pleaded guilty to drug charges and awaits sentence. The next scheduled court appearance is February 1.  

Regarding Bonelli’s arrest a few hours after he spoke to Gang Land last Friday – he is charged with a stabbing outside a

Whitestone, Queens bar – Alvarez said her client was defending himself from an assault by from seven to nine persons that began in the bar and spread into the street. 

As Bonelli cools his heels in the Bronx House of Detention, at least he is safe from reprisals for his violent attacks against the Bonanno-favored restaurateur from Paul (Fat Paulie) Spina, (left) a family wiseguy charged with conspiring to kill him in 2004. Spina, 52, is behind bars in a federal lockup in Brooklyn. He is slated for trial next month along with two codefendants, including underboss Nicholas (Nicky Mouth) Santora. 

The alleged murder plot, sources said, stemmed from Bonelli’s efforts to collect a $7800 debt from a restaurant owner whose son owed the money to the Genovese associate. 

Here’s how acting boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano outlined his reasons for authorizing the contract hit on Bonelli during a tape-recorded jailhouse discussion he had with turncoat mob boss Joseph Massino (right) on January 3, 2005. 

“There’s a kid named Joe Bonelli around the Westside that was creating fucking havoc,” said Basciano. (left) “Shot up the restaurant. Went to the owner’s house. The owner’s around  Paulie. Fat Paulie. Shot up the owner’s house. We can’t have people shooting up people’s houses. I ain’t fucking tolerating that.”

In their second try, the feds convicted mob scion Alphonse (Allie) Persico (right) and key aide John (Jackie) DeRoss last week of the 1999 murder of William (Wild Bill) Cutolo even though the missing gangster’s body has never been found.

This time, as has been noted here and elsewhere, prosecutors Deborah Mayer, Jeffrey Goldberg and John Buretta used testimony by Cutolo’s widow and daughter to buttress the surmise that Cutolo was in fact dead, and had not run away, as the defense contended.

But as dramatic as their emotional testimony was, it did nothing to explain how Wild Bill (left) was whacked, or how it could have been done. Allie was meeting with his lawyer at the time, and the feds had no new evidence pointing to any Colombo family underlings as the killers.

But that didn’t stop prosecutor Buretta from using the same old evidence – a myriad of cell phone, pager, and pay phone records, notes recovered from  Persico’s apartment, calls that 

Persico made to a Long Island marina, and calls and pages to and from two mobsters mentioned at trial – to fashion a theory for the jury to infer exactly how it was done in his rebuttal summation.

Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli, (right) “a trusted driver” picked Cutolo up at 92d Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on May 26, 1999, and with Cutolo rival Vincent (Chickie) DiMartino, (left) who got $50,000 from Persico a month later, killed Wild Bill and dumped his body into the Atlantic using a boat that was docked at a Long Island marina, Buretta declared.

It’s unlikely that Gioeli, the family’s reputed “street boss,” or DiMartino, who’s serving 25 years for a racketeering conviction, will be charged with Cutolo’s murder unless the feds come up with some evidence. But as far as the jury in the Persico and DeRoss retrial was concerned, Tommy Shots Gioeli and Chickie DiMartino did the dirty deed.

Attorneys for Persico, 53, and DeRoss, 70, (right) could not be reached for comment yesterday. Both are expected to appeal their clients’ convictions.