Veteran character actor Anthony Borgese pleaded guilty to taking part in a brutal attempt to collect a debt using Mob enforcers from the infamous Gambino crime family.
Borgese - who uses the stage name Tony Darrow - is expected to be locked up for between 33 and 41 months in a federal prison.
The 72-year-old actor played Larry Boy Barese in 14 episodes of the Mafia TV hit and was featured in Mob-themed movies Analyse This and Goodfellas.
Appearing in the dock at Brooklyn Federal Court this morning, he told Judge Eric Vitaliano: ‘I used extortionate means to collect a debt from a person who lived near Monticello.’
The charge centres on a savage beating handed out by mob heavies to an unidentified victim who allegedly owed money to an upstate New York car dealership.
The dealer had reportedly asked Borgese for help in collecting the debt.


As a result of the 2004 attack in Monticello, the victim was left with his jaw and ribs broken.
On an FBI recording, one of the assailants is heard implicating the character actor.
‘So Tony (Borgese) meets them. Shows them where the house is. They go to the house, the guy answers the door, they beat the living **** out of him,’ he said on the tape.
Borgese showed no emotion and refused to comment as he left the courtroom putting on a pair of mirrored sunglasses.
Defence lawyer Kevin Faga insisted the actor ‘did not lay a hand on anybody'.
‘It’s a difficult day for him. He’s embarrassed and he’s concerned for his family’s privacy.’
If Borgese had gone to trial instead of agreeing to a plea deal, he could have faced up to two years behind bars.

Borgese will be sentenced towards the end of the summer so he will still be free to oversee the charity golf tournament he hosts every year to raise money for cerebral palsy.
The Gambino family is one of the five families that control organised crime in New York. Its illicit activities include racketeering, gambling, prostitution, extortion, loansharking, fraud and murder.
Under 'Teflon Don' John Gotti, the Gambinos were the most powerful crime family in America, but most of the leaders ended up behind bars.
He is not the only Sopranos actor to get into serious trouble with the law. Lillo Brancato who also appeared in the series and in A Bronx Tale was convicted of attempted burglary two years ago.
He was cleared of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman during a drunken, late-night search for drugs in New York.
Brancato played Matt Bevilaqua in the drama’s second series, an aspiring mobster murdered by Tony Soprano.
Prosecutors say Brancato and accomplice Steven Armento broke into an apartment to steal prescription drugs after a night of drinking at a strip club.


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