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Mob Associate Pleads Guilty To Dealing Drugs
Richard Bonafiglia lived in a small world: strip clubs and drug trafficking. The admitted mob associate was sentenced last year to seven years in prison for his role in an extortion racket in which...
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Dirty Agent Testifies At Bulger Trial
Retired FBI supervisor John Morris took the witness stand for the government this week at the racketeering trial against Whitey Bulger, and testified about his dirty dealings with the one-time Winter...
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Disgusting Display: Federal Prosecutors Trash Honest G-Man At Bulger Trial
Robert Fitzpatrick was one of the honest agents at the FBI’s Boston field office who expressly advised the Bureau in the early 1980s to sever its relationship with Whitey Bulger as a useless informant,...
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Mob Rat John Castagna Dies At 72
Patriarca associate John “Sonny” Castagna who flipped to become a government witness died last month at the age of 72 as reported by Edmund H. Mahony for The Hartford Courant. Castagna once was...
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Reputed Mobster Enrico Ponzo Goes To Trial After Years On The Lam
Enrico Ponzo goes to trial this week in a Boston federal court. The reputed Patriarca associate was living on the lam as cattle rancher Jay Shaw in Marsing, ID for sixteen years until his apprehension...
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Rhode Island Cops Allege Fall River Businessman Is A “Made Man” With New...
Joseph Ruggiero Sr. is celebrated in Fall River, MA as a job-creating businessman who is saving the local economy but Col. Steven O’Donnell, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, “said in a...
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Court Fight Centers On Fugitive’s Flight
Enrico Ponzo is on trial in a Boston federal court for his alleged role in the 1989 murder attempt against Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme during a power struggle in the Patriarca family. Ponzo...
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Bobo Marrapese Gets Nine Years
Reputed Patriarca capo Frank “Bobo” Marrapese Jr. was sentenced to nine years for heading a gambling crew as reported by W. Zachary Malinowski for the Providence Journal: “Marrapese, 70, who was on...
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Mobster-Turned-Rancher Enrico Ponzo Is Convicted For Hit Attempt Against...
A federal jury in Boston, MA has convicted Enrico Ponzo on racketeering charges including his role in the 1989 murder attempt against Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme during a power struggle in the...
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New England Mobsters Slated For 2014 Prison Release
A gaggle of reputed mobsters from the New England Mafia – Matthew Guglielmetti, Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, Alfred “Chippy” Scivola and Raymond “Scarface” Jenkins — may taste freedom this year as...
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