There are three voices on this tape: The FBI informant, mob associate Ricky Silva, now in federal prison for a separate extortion case, and aging wise guy Anthony St. Laurent(Patriarca crime family). The meeting was called by "The Saint" as a job interview of sorts. The work? Gun down another mobster; Robert "Bobby" Deluca.

St. Laurent: "You interested in that other thing he told you?"

Silva: "Excuse me?"

St. Laurent: "You told him, right?"

Nardolillo: "Yeah."

St. Laurent: "You interested in that?"

Silva: "I'm going to have to talk about it."

St. Laurent: "Why?"

Silva: "I'm just ah..."

St. Laurent: "Tell me why though."

Nardolillo: "Like Ricky says, Bobby Deluca's a made guy."

St. Laurent: "No repercussions."

Nardolillo: "In other words, we don't want to have a problem."

St. Laurent: "It ain't going to be a problem one way or another."

Nardolillo: "We understand that. We don't want to have a problem with Louie after, either."

"Louie," according to federal prosecutors, is the reputed head of the New England crime family; Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio.

St. Laurent tries to reassure Silva and Nardolillo.

St. Laurent: "No repercussions. If you want, after it's done, I'll take you to him."

Silva: "What?"

Nardolillo: "One of us to Louie. He can take you, I'm not going."

St. Laurent: "I'll take you right to him."

Nardolillo: "To make sure we don't have repercussions."

St. Laurent: "And my word should be good enough."

Nardolillo: "No! Your word is good."

St. Laurent is in poor health, something he admits in the wiretap.

St. Laurent: "Everything is fine. I just can't walk, I can't walk... If I could be walking we wouldn't be here talking about it. You know what I mean?"

Investigators say St. Laurent wanted the hit to go down at Deluca's workplace, Sidebar and Grille, in Providence. But the tape reveals the men were worried about the location because of the steps that go down to the restaurant.

Nardolillo: "I don't want to get him in the joint; you have to get upstairs afterward. I'd rather get him outside. You know what I mean? I'd rather get him outside like walking to a car something like that where it's a lot easier."

What St. Laurent didn't know was that Silva wasn't going to take the job. It's clear he didn't want any part of killing a ranking member of the crime family. This is Silva and Nardolillo in the car, on the way to see St. Laurent.

Silva: "You can't kill a made guy and not have justification. that, Tony. That's playing with fire, man... $20,000 ain't worth me doing a life bid in jail."

source: http://www.wpri.com/dpp/target_12/local_...ia_20091102_nek