allegedly served as acting capo during two short stays Danny had behind bars in recent years – is also charged in the 19 count indictment.

Of the eight defendants in the case, only Cutaia, 71, was jailed to await trial. Federal judges in Brooklyn rejected efforts by prosecutors Paul Tuchmann, Jeffrey Goldberg and Dennis Ring to detain Mikey Bones, 67, and Baudanza, 38, (right) as dangers to the community.

The current case is a double whammy for Baudanza, a former Colombo associate who switched his crime family allegiances when he fell in love with Cutaia’s daughter, Danielle. Next week, he is slated to begin an 87 month sentence in an unrelated racketeering case in which he, his father Carmine, 65, a Colombo associate, and his uncle, Joseph Baudanza, 63, a Colombo capo, all pleaded guilty last year. Carmine, doing a 26-month bit, is due out next year; Joseph (left) was hit with 42 months and is scheduled for release in 2011.

Meanwhile, as Salvatore Cutaia awaits trial free on a $1.5 million bond, his father is at a federal lockup in Brooklyn because of nine-year-old sins of his son. In 1999, Salvatore leveled tape-recorded threats at a loanshark customer who had fallen behind in his $500 a week payments on a $25,000 debt to the elder Cutaia and had fled to North Carolina.

“My father’s coming home next week and we gotta straighten this out,” Salvatore, now 48, bellowed on April 10, 1999, a few days before his old man was due out of prison. “You’re going

to make me get on a fucking plane and come down to Carolina and go crazy on you.”

The feds turned around the old saw against making the son pay for the sins of his father by stressing in a detention motion that the father was responsible for the son’s actions.

“In making those threats,” prosecutors charged, Salvatore “acted not only as a son doing his father’s bidding but also as a lower-ranking member of the Luchese family doing the bidding of a higher-ranking member” who was the real danger to the community.

The elder Cutaia’s attorney, Jean Marie Graziano, is expected to contest his detention at a status conference next week before Judge Sterling Johnson.  

Women have headed New York FBI organized crime squads for so long that it’s not easy to recall who headed the first one, but this month the so-called fairer sex reached a new level when it comes to New York’s infamous five families.

Since March 1, women have been in charge of three of the five separate FBI squads that are each assigned to investigate the criminal activities of a single crime family.

“It’s certainly not your father’s FBI anymore, but it isn’t your father’s Mafia anymore either, with so many mob defectors betraying omerta these days,” laughed one G-Woman, who like most G-Men, asked that her name not be used.

For the record, FBI agent Rita Steiner became acting supervisor of the Gambino squad on March 1. She succeeds longtime supervisor Phil Scala, (his face half-hidden by the light pole, Scala eyes the body of Paul Castellano in front of Sparks Steak House in 1985) who retired soon after spearheading the investigation that resulted in the monster racketeering indictment of 62 Gambino mobsters and associates, including the family’s Administration.

A few days earlier, agent Meredith Savona, the case agent in the recent Cutaia investigation, took over as acting boss of the Luchese squad. Both are longtime members of their current squads and were praised as “excellent agents and leaders” by David Shafer, who oversees all the New York-based FBI organized crime squads.

Rounding out the distaff trio is Nora Conley, who took over as official boss of the Bonanno squad during the 2004 trial of

then-family leader Joseph Massino, (left) who became the first New York mob boss to cooperate after he was convicted of seven murders.

“Nora is probably the finest organized crime supervisor that I have come across,” said former assistant U.S. attorney Mitra Hormozi, who prosecuted Massino and supervised many follow-up cases after his trial.

“I have worked with Rita and Meredith and I think they will be excellent supervisors as well,” added Hormozi, who headed the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s organized crime unit until this week, when she took an executive position with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Meanwhile, don’t get the idea that men have disappeared entirely from the federal side of the mob scene.

Seamus McElearney heads the FBI’s Colombo squad – Amy Lyons headed that squad back in 1999 and was the woman trailblazer, by the way – and Michael Gaeta recently moved up to acting supervisor of the Genovese squad.

And in Brooklyn, assistant U.S. attorney John Buretta, who was the lead prosecutor in last year’s convictions of acting Bonanno boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano and acting Colombo boss Alphonse Persico, (right) has taken over Hormozi’s slot as head of organized crime prosecutions.