Sentencing Postponed for Phony Doctor
Dean Faiello, the phony doctor who hid  the body of a NYC banker and fled to Costa Rica, before returning and confessing to her death is expected to get 20 years prison. The sentencing of Dean Faiello was adjourned this morning until December 4.

Dean Faiello, the construction worker who passed himself off as a dermatologist in Chelsea, was caught in Costa Rica and brought back to New York last year.

Since then, he's pleaded guilty to impersonating a doctor.

Thanks to a plea deal, Faiello was supposed to get a sentence of 20 years in prison in connection with the April 2003 death of 35-year-old Manhattan banker, Maria Cruz.

She had gone to Faiello for a lunchtime laser treatment. But she went into convulsions and died when he allegedly injected her tongue with lidocaine.

Faiello admits he did nothing to help Cruz. And he ended up burying her body under a home he owned in Newark.

Ten months passed before a tip led police to the body, and to Faiello who by then was working as a dancer at a gay male strip bar in downtown San José

Faiello admitted to being a heavy cocaine user at the time of the assault and was originally charged with murder, but the plea deal reduced the charge to first degree assault.