Dina Cantin is reclaiming her power after finally getting justice against her ex-husband.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum, 52, shared a statement Wednesday on her Instagram Story, one day after Thomas ‘Tommy’ Manzo was found guilty of hiring a mobster to assault her then-boyfriend David Cantin in 2015.
‘I call my power back to me. I call my energy back to me. I call my magic back to me,’ she wrote in the statement.
‘I am cleansed and disconnected from anything that may drain me. I am shielded from any energy that does not serve me.
‘I am safe. I am protected. I am whole. And so it is,’ added Manzo.
Dina Cantin shared a statement Wednesday on her Instagram Story, one day after Thomas ‘Tommy’ Manzo was found guilty of hiring a mobster to assault her then-boyfriend David Cantin in 2015
Her post comes after Thomas, 59, was convicted of contracting John Perna to assault David — whom Dina later married in 2017 — in exchange for a free, lavish wedding reception
Her post comes after Thomas, 59, was convicted of contracting John Perna to assault David — whom Dina later married in 2017 — in exchange for a free, lavish wedding reception.
A federal jury found Thomas guilty of conspiracy, falsifying and concealing documents, and committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity.
The restaurateur faces up to 46 years in prison when he’s sentenced October 15.
Federal prosecutors said Thomas hired John Perna — whom they described as a soldier in the Lucchese Crime Family — to commit the July 2015 attack against David in the parking lot of a Garden State strip mall.
The following month, Perna’s wedding reception was held at the Paterson, New Jersey restaurant The Brownstone, which is partly owned by Thomas.
Perna pleaded guilty in December 2020 to committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity.
He received a two-and-a-half-year sentence the following year and was ordered by the court to remit $17,816 in restitution fees. Perna was released from custody last August.
Amid a police probe into the attack on David, the jury found that Thomas had hid information and lied on documents when subpoenaed by a grand jury, according to ABC News.
Thomas had been infuriated about his then-estranged wife Dina’s romance with David and wanted his attackers to ‘leave a permanent facial scar’ in the planned assault, according to court docs reviewed by ABC.
‘I call my power back to me. I call my energy back to me. I call my magic back to me,’ wrote Dina in the statement
‘I am cleansed and disconnected from anything that may drain me,’ she wrote. ‘I am shielded from any energy that does not serve me’
‘I am safe. I am protected. I am whole. And so it is,’ added Manzo
Earlier this year, Thomas asked a federal judge overseeing the case to throw it out, citing its unusually long history of delays, according to the New York Post.
His attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Zach Intrater said that the restaurateur had been denied his right to a ‘speedy trial’ in the case, in which he was indicted in 2020, five years after the attack.
They cited the federal Speedy Trial Act of 1974 in their argument for tossing the case.
‘The last day that Mr. Manzo could have been brought to trial on the Indictment in compliance with the [law] was December 10, 2022,’ Thomas’ lawyers said in a court filing on January 19. ‘But no effective continuance was signed until nearly eleven months later.’
Thomas’ attorneys said there was ‘no question that there has been a violation’ of the federal statute, and that his indictment ‘must be dismissed.’
They described their client as ‘a respected businessman who looks forward to these charges being dismissed so that he can get back to his family and the work that he loves.’
