Couple Told To Pay Up In 'Mafia' Case

NEW PORT RICHEY - For a decade, Michael Leotis paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward gambling debts while under threats from mobsters in New York.

Now, after the FBI got involved, it may be Leotis' turn to collect.

Pasco Circuit Judge W. Lowell Bray Jr. has ordered a New York couple identified in court papers as associates of the Columbo crime family to repay Leotis more than $280,000.

The order came after the defendants in a lawsuit, Orlando and Barbara Sergi, ignored court rulings and failed to defend themselves.