FBI informant John Pastorella, a key witness at the extortion trial of City Councilman Leland Beloff, today was given a suspended sentence and placed on two years' probation by a federal judge in Baltimore.
Pastorella, 51, had pleaded guilty there in 1985 to two counts of conspiracy to distribute and import heroin in connection with what a federal prosecutor said was a 1980-83 operation also involving Turkish nationals.
Pastorella told U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Young he was ashamed of the behavior that led to his convictions, and was sorry to have been involved in the heroin operation.
