Mob Informant: Keep Me in Prison ; Fears Hit If Freed Now

The New York Post reports:

He'd rather face more time "in the hole" than mob justice.

A crook who ratted out one of the late John Gotti's most notoriously ruthless henchman was sentenced yesterday to time served for engineering a botched FedEx truck hijacking.

But turncoat Brian Greenwald, who's been rotting in jail for 27 months -- the last seven in solitary confinement, a k a "the hole" -- instead begged the judge to stay in the slammer rather than risk retribution from a feared gangland gunslinger who was the alleged backup shooter at the 1985 murder of Gambino don Paul Castellano.

Ouch.