I recently read "No Angel" by Jay Dobyns about his UC infiltration of the Arizona Hells Angels, which took place in 2003.

Not a bad read at all; his cover story going in was that he was a debt collector for a Mafioso named "Big Lou" based in Nevada.

When the time came for him to prove more of his back story to his Hells Angels brothers he arranged for his sponsor to join him on a trip to Las Vegas where the ATF arranged for someone to play the role of Big Lou. In the book, he says it was initially intended to be another ATF UC. The man was supposedly aged approximately 60 years old and Dobyns thought he was over the top - tinted glasses, flashy suit and outspoken to say the least. When he complained to his supervisor that the UC was pouring it on too thick his supervisor told him, to his surprise, that the guy playing Big Lou was not an actor at all - it was a co-operating witness who was/had been a member of "the Jersey mob".

Of course, he played the part perfectly and the Angels bought it hook, line and sinker.

Naturally, it made me wonder who this could have been?

The first assumption when you hear Jersey is a member of the DeCavalcantes; could it have been Vinny Palermo while in witness protection?

Charles Stango lived out in Nevada, could he have co-operated on some level in order to get out from under a charge of some kind?

Or is the "Jersey mob" a misnomer; could it be a Genovese, Gambino or Lucchese associate based in Jersey? Who else would have been approximately 60 years old and living in the Nevada area at the time?

Does anybody happen to know who this Mafioso was? Failing that, would anybody else like to try and guess?