Side hustle in a federal trial that began this month, prosecutors portrayed Bon Giovanni as a greedy racist who pocketed more than $250,000 in cash, stuffed envelopes over a decade and then threw his colleagues off by opening bogus case files and encouraging them to spend less time on the Italians and more times on, quote, the blacks and the Hispanics, end quote. When authorities finally unmasked him in 2019, he hastily retired and wiped his cell phone clean