The son of “The Sopranos” star Michael Imperioli, Vadim, has been arrested for a November 20 swastika spray-painting incident at Purchase College.
According to The Journal News, New York State Police confirmed the younger Imperioli was charged with criminal mischief in the fourth degree.
The vandalism had occurred on a dorm bulletin board. “In the same time-frame,” according to school spokeswoman Betsy Aldredge, another defacing incident — still being investigated — took place which used the phrase “Black Lives Don’t Matter.”
Imperioli was at court on Tuesday to answer an unrelated petty larceny charge involving the unauthorized use of a car Oct. 13. He sat quietly with his grandparents, occasionally leaving the court to confer with his attorney, Russell Smith of White Plains.
The swastika incident was referenced obliquely during the court proceeding when Assistant District Attorney Catalina Blanco Buitrago asked Judge Pasquale Gizzo to double Imperioli’s $5,000 bail. Buitrago told Gizzo that Imperioli had served three years’ probation for vandalism in California and had been involved in a case of “criminal mischief since his last time in this court.”
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“He (now) has two open cases in this court,” the assistant district attorney told the judge. “He has a disregard for the property of others.” She said of the criminal mischief investigation that “there is consideration of it being upgraded to a felony.”
Gizzo, in response, raised Imperioli’s bail by $1,500, scolding the teenager for getting into new trouble while facing the petit larceny charge.
“This is not the direction a person should move in,” the judge said.
While Imperioli’s Facebook profile lists him as a film student at Purchase, his attorney told the judge on Tuesday: “I don’t believe he’s still going to that school.” He did not clarify whether Imperioli was expelled or left by choice.
While the Journal News offers no insight into Imperioli’s politics, Jammie Wearing Fools tracked down this Facebook entry in which the 19-year-old is sporting a Harvey Milk t-shirt.
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