Joseph M. Perna had stood before a judge before.

In 2016, he was sentenced alongside his father, a reputed Lucchese mob boss, on state racketeering charges that would put him in prison for nearly a decade. Eleven years earlier there had been similar federal charges, again involving his father.

But this time was different. Now the 56-year-old Fairfield man, referred to as “Little Joe” by prosecutors who identified him as a Lucchese crime family soldier, was getting his mug shot taken with his own sons, a stepson, nephews, several of their friends — even his wife and ex-wife — in connection with an alleged illegal sports gambling scheme . All told, 14 people, including Perna, were arrested on Nov. 12 in what the state Attorney General’s office described as a $2 million mob-connected

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