Penn State’s Accused Cocaine Kingpin Attended Ritzy Private High School

Before he became the center of a college campus drug investigation, accused Penn State cocaine kingpin Agostino Abbatiello attended a pricey New York Catholic school.

The Long Island native, according to a report from The New York Post, grew up in the wealthy suburb of Westbury and attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York — a private Catholic school that runs $19,000 per year and touts a record of “forming young men of character and purpose.”

“I could always see him getting in some kind of trouble because he was always on the edge,” one former classmate told the outlet. “Auggie was not this innocent boy. He had this group of, like, 10 boys who would hang out in parks after school and go to house parties … There were rumors some of that crowd were drinking underage, some people had fake IDs, that kind of thing.”

Another former classmate described Abbatiello as a “loudmouth” and “a jokester, always looking for attention.”

“He’d go around making noises, calling people names and doing his best to make people laugh when the teacher turned their backs,” the classmate said.

The 24-year-old was one of several Penn State University fraternity brothers charged in connection with an alleged drug trafficking ring — one that prosecutors say roped young fraternity pledges into cutting and packaging cocaine as part of their initiation.

Abbatiello, known at the university as “The Godfather,” appeared in court last Wednesday — where Lars Zeepvat, who was also charged in connection with the trafficking ring, testified that Abbatiello had bought drugs from a former classmate named “RJ” and had been instrumental in bringing the drugs onto the western Pennsylvania campus.

“First time he purchased from RJ it was the most we’ve ever seen and it was 100 grams,” Zeepvat testified. “People were enamored with how much it was. Abbatiello brought back the coke the first time he went to New York and put it on the social room [at the] frat house.”

None of the people who spoke to The Post were able to shed any light on who “RJ” might have been.

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