Valente, an associate of the ‘Ndrangheta, is also charged in Italy with the crime of mafia association. Valente has been recorded on Italian court-authorized wiretaps bragging about the armed and violent group he has assembled in New York. Valente explained to Italian defendant Andrea Memmolo, “…but do you know how we are ready? Has he told you about the architecture [i.e., set-up] that we have, or not? Have they ever told you?”, “We are set up ‘badly’ [meaning well-organized] . . . it’s like Fort Knox!”, “it’s like the central gas . . . there are things over the windows . . . like if you pull the cords, the shots come!”, “yesterday we were armed to the teeth”
it sounds like he has a stash house some where, its probably not been raided yet. Were any of his muscle arrested to?
