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Grim Reaper Suggests The Mob Hit Joe Colombo
Gregory Scarpa Sr., the Colombo enforcer who did double-duty as an FBI informant, suggests that the mob was behind the 1971 hit on his boss Joe Colombo according to the Bureau’s recently-released file...
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Mob Rat Once Charged As Violent Racist
Nicholas “Nicky Skins” Stefanelli, the Gambino soldier who wore a wire for the G-men until committing suicide earlier this year, once was charged by federal prosecutors for his alleged role in beating...
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Reports On The Death Of The Mafia May Be Greatly Exaggerated
After every big mob bust some paper runs a lame story about the waning days of the Mafia. Over the last year the feds have been picking off reputed Patriarca mobsters for their alleged roles in...
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Sentencing Day For Baby Shacks
Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, the former Patriarca boss who was schooled in the life at the knee of the crime family’s namesake Raymond L.S. Patriarca, will be sentenced today for his role in shaking...
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Imprisoned Mobster Writes Autobiography
Gerard “the Frenchman” Ouimette, a former enforcer for the Patriarca family in Providence, RI, was sentenced to life in 1995 pursuant to the federal three-strikes-your-out law following an extortion...
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Feds Prematurely Declare Victory Over Mafia
The Colombo family was a principal target in the January 2011 FBI raid against the Italian Mafia in the Northeast, and on Friday the feds announced that with the exception of reputed soldier Ralph...
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Another Sentence Falls On Mark Rossetti
Mark Rossetti, the Patriarca capo who moonlighted as an FBI informant, was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to loansharking and extortion charges as reported by Milton...
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Louis Marchetti Charged In Burglary Ring
Apparently a leopard can’t change its spots. Louis Marchetti was convicted nearly twenty years ago for his role in a burglary ring tied to the Patriarca family, and earlier this week again was arrested...
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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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