Old Mob Hangouts

We've all heard of the Ravenite, the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, the Gemini Lounge etc. But does anyone know of any less known mob spots from the past or present?


Thanks.

Palma Boys Social Club in Harlem, it's where Fat Tony Salerno ran his operation out of.

In Youngstown, Youngstown United Music Inc., is where the Naples brothers ran their operations out of from the 1950's to present day.

L.A. Motors in Verona, PA is where Mike Genovese was employed and ran his criminal operation out of. It was renamed Verona Auto Sales.

Allegheny Car Wash on Sandusky Street in Pittsburgh is where Big John LaRocca ran his family for over 40 years.

In Cleveland, one of the main mob hangouts is an Italian Restaurant in Murray Hill (Cleveland's Little Italy Neighborhood on Mayfield Rd) called Nido Italia.

Mosca's in Avondale, LA is where the NOLA LCN held court.

Town and Country Motel is where Carlos Also operated out of.

How 'bout the Hollywood Social Club in Oakland PA, just outside of downtown Pittsburgh.

Thanks for the replies. Any more?

In the Bath Avenue crew documentary they mention the area having a social club on every corner and different crews used to hang out there. Does anybody know the names of social clubs in Brooklyn during the 80s/90s?

I've made a thread about the NYC places before but it would also be interesting to know which of these places we can still visit. For example you can still eat at Mosca's Italian restaurant outside New Orleans. Some of them, like the Ravenite in NY have been turned into retail establishments but I would still love to go in there.

Scroll down a bit on this link and there is Fritzy Giovanelli's old club in Bushwick and some other stuff.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=678702

Does anyone have any pictures of at one time acting boss of the Bonanno family "Anthony Spero's" club located in Bensonhurst Brooklyn or of Angelo Presinzano's bar located at the Fulton Fish market??? And also their Soldiers

Campisi's Egyptian Lounge in Dallas was a big mob hangout during the mob's heyday. Local mobsters and New Orleans and Chicago gangsters often met there. It's still open and local bookies still meet there for meals meetings.

What was Spero's club called?

I'm actually not sure..my uncle was a goodfella he was in speros crew for awhile but it was located on bath ave and bay 17 street

My uncle was actually also very close with Carmine Galante...my uncle crew up down in the lower east side of manhattan in the 30s, 40s and 50s.

wow thats a neat thing to know, any stories you can share?

How about the Holiday House in Monroeville, the meeting place for the top hierarchy of Pittsburgh. Mike Genovese used to meet his top 3 guys there weekly.

Maybe the best place of all, Sonken's Gold Coast Restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale. It was viewed as a "message center" for all mob bosses who owned homes in the South Florida area. Joe Sonken was tied to the Outfit in Chicago and operated this restaurant for decades.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-06...-message-center

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-01-19/news/9201040090_1_meyer-lansky-fbi-gangster

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-05-05/news/9405050122_1_gold-coast-restaurant-racketeering

Jo Jo Pecora's favorite whenever he was in Florida.

Spero's club was called the West End Civic Assoc and is still in use, located on Bath ave just south of 17th ave. Their are numerous active social clubs/caffe's in the area present day

Youngstown in the fifties The Purple Cow was a hangout.

If my memory serves me correctly this was Fats Aiello's "joint". Best of all it was directly across the street from the Police Department ;-)

Yes it was. He was family friend, I always referred to him as Uncle Fatty.

Scroll up and down in this result and you will be able to read about some of the famous mob hangouts in NY. It´s from Eric Ferrara´s book Manhattan Mafia Guide.

http://books.google.se/books?id=Cf7oAVFn...lub&f=false

Roseland in Buffalo NY, site of one major mob rubout.

vagabond club in Cleveland
theatrical lounge cleveland

Hey anybody know of any joints on Federal Hill in Providence? I imagine we go back up there if there is another blizzard so this time I want to know some good places to eat!

On Federal Hill, some of the old hangouts were Constantino's Venda Ravioli as well as Andino's Restaurant. Another bar/restaurant downtown is the Sidebar Grille which is where Bobby DeLuca worked and ran his operations until he flipped and went into WITSEC. However, Providence is decimated and there are no "active" made members left, they're all dead, locked up or in WITSEC.

Achille is not active, semi retired. Matty Gug in prison until 2016. Ruggiero is a businessman, not a mobster...he was Louie's travel companion and friend...not active in LCN and got his button due to his friendship with Louie.

I'm talking about "structured leadership" at this point...When Anthony DiNunzio is the best you could do for a boss, your organization is in trouble. It took him all of 2 seconds to run his mouth to Nicky Skins and get pinched. New England LCN is basically a gang at this point. Yes there are some made guys left...but the family is at a standing 9 count.

tell me this jcb is Achilles dead or locked up is sparo dead or locked up is ruggerio is matty jr, is moriarty is dennis cappiccilo is milisi huh d they are out and active ....man u don't know shit and you act like you know.... the boston socail clubs and old hangouts are most in tact the Florentine café the old soccer club on north st Francesca restaurant is still frequented the old Marconi club is still very active couple of barber shops that's basically a socail clubs ...revere still has a few so does Everett and eastie (east boston) has at least 8 restaurants/café/bars and 5 known socail clubs some of the least exposed places I try to withhold the names for safety precautions but its there the connected guys you know

So you pretty much just gave up all the secret spots on a public internet forum? I mean, I dont necessarily think anything could come from that info....could it?

So you pretty much just gave up all the secret spots on a public internet forum? I mean, I dont necessarily think anything could come from that info....could it? [/quote]

secret spots? You do realize the feds know pretty much everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We could agree to disagree. The last 6 bosses have been indicted, went to prison or cooperated, the "most" active guys in Boston/Providence have been indicted, gone too prison or have cooperated (Limone, Manocchio, Rossetti, Lato, DeLuca, Marapese, St. Laurent, Fat Anthony Dinunzio, Carmen Dinunzio, Chippy Scivola, Matty Gugs etc).

I will say that Spucky Spagnolo is probably the most active who is on the street today, but the organization has been decimated and with the successful prosecutions of the top tiered guys as well as the last 6 bosses, it's hard to argue that the Federal Government isn't winning the war against a severely weakened Patriarca Crime Family. The family is in disarray and is in as bad as shape as Philly if not worse.

The next thing you are going to tell me is that Aaron Hernandez is innocent, right?

I found this information to be somewhat "enlightening" to the general public who is interested in the state of affairs in Providence:

THE GRAYING OF RHODE ISLAND’S MAFIOSOS
As mobster Anthony DiNunzio was sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday, the ranks of the mob continue to grow older, thinner
By W. ZACHARY MALINOWSKI JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
PROVIDENCE — What’s left?
On Wednesday, Anthony L. DiNunzio, the boss of the New England mob, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for his role in collecting thousands of dollars in protection money from the Satin Doll, Cadillac Lounge and Foxy Lady strip clubs.
DiNunzio, 53, of East Boston, is the eighth member or associate of La Cosa Nostra to plead guilty to a felony charge in the past two years and get sentenced to a lengthy prison term. Most of them have been sent to prisons along the Eastern Seaboard.
“It’s a great day for Rhode Island and a good day for New England,” said U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha, on the steps outside U.S. District Court.
Judge William E. Smith, acting on a recommendation from the prosecution, gave DiNunzio the highest end of the federal sentencing guideline range for being the mob boss. The minimum sentence was 5 years, 3 months.
“You’re the person at the top,” Smith said. “When you’re at the top, you have to take the most responsibility.”
DiNunzio and Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, of Providence, who preceded DiNunzio as mob boss, are the two highest-ranking mobsters snared in the federal, state and local investigation that was launched several years ago.
Manocchio, 85, who is serving a 5 1/2-year sentence in North Carolina, is the last head of the New England mob from Rhode Island. After he stepped down in 2009, the power base of organized crime in the region shifted from Providence to Boston.
Providence had been the headquarters for more than 50 years, dating to the days of Raymond L.S. Patriarca, the powerful boss who ran the criminal rackets across New England from the Coin-o-Matic storefront on Atwells Avenue.
“The made guys as we know it in Rhode Island are decimated,” said Col. Steven G. O’Donnell, head of the Rhode Island State Police and a longtime mob investigator. “There’s a huge void.”
The list of remaining made members, or formally inducted members of the mob in the Rhode Island area, has grown thin and old. Those remaining are: William “Billy Black” or “Blackjack” Del-Santo, of Narragansett; Joseph Achille, who lives in the North End of Providence; Vito DeLuca, of Seekonk; Pasquale “Pat” Galea, of Providence, and Joseph Ruggiero, a successful businessman with a home in the upscale Nayatt Point section of Barrington.
O’Donnell said Ruggiero has “zero authority,” because underworld figures have told him that Ruggiero paid the mob a “large amount of money” to be inducted into La Cosa Nostra. He was frequently in the company of Manocchio and traveled to Italy with him in July 2009.
Law enforcement officials say DelSanto suffered a stroke several years ago and Achille has had health problems.
All of them, except Ruggiero, are over 65.
O’Donnell said the five remaining mobsters may dabble in loan-sharking and gambling, but their activities are limited. “They have all had the ‘made guy’ status for years, but the world has changed,” he said.
Robert P. DeLuca Sr., a longtime capo regime in the Patriarca crime family, disappeared from his house in North Providence with his wife and two small children in the summer of 2011. It’s widely believed that he has been cooperating with law enforcement authorities.
Richard DesLauriers, who heads the FBI office in Boston, said the conviction of DiNunzio and eight others has been a serious blow to the Rhode Island mob, but organized crime remains in Boston and elsewhere in the region.
“I would be hesitant to say that it’s been completely eradicated throughout New England,” he said.
On Wednesday afternoon, DiNunzio, who was handcuffed and wore leg chains, was led into court in a khaki prison-issued smock and matching pajama-type pants. The heavy-set mob boss was grayer and appeared as though he had lost weight since his first appearance in court last spring.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William J. Ferland sought the maximum sentence of 6 1/2 years, citing DiNunzio’s “arrogance ” and “disdain for the law.” He said that in May 2011 the mob boss accepted a cash payment from Edward C. Lato, a ranking Rhode Island mobster, on a street in Boston’s North End.
Lato was one of the mobsters nailed in the racketeering investigation and is serving a lengthy sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina.
At the time, Ferland said, DiNunzio knew that the authorities were deep into their investigation and had already nabbed Manocchio for accepting a strip club protection payment in Providence. Nonetheless, DiNunzio continued on with his criminal ways.
Investigators, armed with a warrant, seized the money from DiNunzio.
Afterward, Ferland said, DiNunzio met with a mobster in the Gambino crime family of New York at My Cousin Vinny’s, a restaurant outside of Boston. He told the New Yorker that he was hell bent on finding out “who the rats were.”
Ferland said DiNunzio strongly suggested that it was Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, former boss of the New England mob.
“He wants to find this cooperator to put an end to his cooperation,” Ferland said. “Violence is the way this organization carries out its business.”
DiNunzio’s lawyer, Robert Sheketoff, of Boston, argued for a lesser sentence. He cited his client’s poor health — diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure and back pain. He also said DiNunzio’s former wife said that he has been a “loving and devoted father” to their two children, now young adults.
Sheketoff’s plea didn’t seem to faze Smith, the sentencing judge.
In addition to the maximum prison sentence, he ordered DiNunzio to complete three years of supervised probation once he’s released. Smith had doubts that the mob boss would change his ways.
“I’m not going to give you a lecture about rehabilitation,” he said.

This list was compiled over on real deal by "Wiseguy." As you could see, he put a lot of work into this to show "activity" as well as waning power:

In February 2000, 24 people, including Robert Beshere and Anthony "Spitzy" Gambale, were indicted in Boston on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation, tied to the New England LCN, that brought in as much as $500,000 a week in bets.

In March 2000, 17 people, including New England LCN soldier Anthony Ascenzia Jr, were indicted in Connecticut on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation that handled $2.3 million in wagers in one 4-month period, as well as a numbers operation, and distributing video poker machines from 1997 to 2000.

In April 2000, officials seized over $4 million in cash, computers, fax machines, and shredders at 16 locations in Norfolk County, MA, as well as 1 location in Florida, that were part of an extensive multi-million dollar sports bookmaking operation. No arrests were made at the time.

In July 2000, it was reported that several members of IBT Local 251 (drivers in film production) in Providence, including New England LCN associate Anthony Parillo, had criminal backgrounds and ties to organized crime.

In November 2000, 15 people, including New England LCN captain Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent and soldiers Rudolph "The Captain" Sciarra and Vito "The Ox" DeLuca, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering and organized criminal gambling involving a sports bookmaking operation.

In November 2000, 15 people, including Joseph Marques, Steven Roccio, John Battista, Jeffrety Pelagalli, Thomas Ricci, Joseph Mariano, and Terrance Stegner were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, aiding and abetting, and organized criminal gambling involving a sports bookmaking operation that stretched from Rhode Island to Connecticut.

In January 2001, 5 people tied to the New England LCN, including John Tillinghast, Frank Welch, Daniel Mattenson, and John MacArthur, were indicted in Providence on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation.

In June 2001, New England LCN associate and loanshark Leonard Rosenberg was killed during a robbery in Boston.

In October 2001, 7 people tied to the New England LCN, known as the "DeCologero Crew," including John DeCologero and Paul DeCologero, were indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, cocaine trafficking, loansharking, robbery of rival drug dealers, weapons possession, and murder.

In December 2001, New England LCN associate, William Angelesco, was indicted in Boston on charges of murdering strip club manager Peter DeVito.

In December 2001, 2 New England LCN soldiers, Freddy "The Neighbor" Simone and Vincent "Dee Dee" Gioacchini, were indicted in Boston on charges of illegal weapons possession.

In December 2001, New England LCN associate and strip club owner, Peter DeVito, was killed in Boston.

In March 2002, 5 people, with ties to the New England LCN, were charged in Norfolk County, MA on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation and drug trafficking.

In September 2002, 6 people tied to the New England LCN, known as the "Mello Organization," including Timothy Mello, were indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, cocaine and marijuana trafficking, robbery of rival drug dealers, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, extortion, running a sports bookmaking operation, and firearms offenses.

In December 2002, 18 people, including New England LCN soldier Anthony "Sonny Boy" Rizzo, were indicted in Boston on charges of trafficking in cocaine and oxycodone.

In December 2002, 6 people, including New England LCN associate Joseph Settipane, as well as Vincent LePore, James Candelino, Frank Cinsuruli, Thomas Verona, Anthony Pino, and Gregory Costa, were indicted in Boston on charges of keeping a place for illegal gambling, using the telephone for illegal gambling, and conspiracy to violate gaming laws involving a sports bookmaking operation that netted up to $500,000 a week, as well as a numbers operation.

In articles in November 2003, December 2006, and August 2008, it was reported that, despite being a "shell" or a "shadow" of the organization it once was, with dwindling membership - 20 to 25 active members in Boston, with 10 inactive or in prison, as well as a dozen or so members in Providence - (as well as a "substantial" number of associates) and it becoming harder to attract quality recruits, the New England LCN, under the leadership of boss, Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, continued to be active in the traditional rackets of sports bookmaking, video poker, loansharking, extortion, and drug trafficking. In November 2012 it was reported that, although the FBI considered LCN the #1 organized crime threat in New England, the threat in Rhode Island was "substantially minimized to the point of being almost non-existent" after recent indictments.

In December 2003, 3 people, including New England LCN soldiers, Frederick "The Neighbor" Simone and Vincent "Dee Dee" Gioacchini, as well as Francis "The White Haired Guy" White, were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, loansharking, money laundering, and extorting $500 to $1,000 monthly payments from a sports bookmaking operation.

In June 2004, 7 people tied to the New England LCN, including Scott Martinelli, James Viglione, and Robert Romboli, were indicted in Stoneham, MA on charges of organizing and promoting gambling and possession of gambling aparatus involving a sports bookmaking operation that took in as much as $60,000 a week in profits; as well as conspiracy and possession involving cocaine and oxycodone trafficking.

In January 2005, as a result of an investigation into organized crime involvement in the Laborers International Union of North America and the local construction industry, New England LCN captain Matthew "Matty" Guglielmetti (a member of LIUNA Local 271) and associates Anthony Gobbi and Robert Nordolillo, were indicted in Providence on charges of conspiracy to distribute 67 kilos of cocaine brought through Rhode Island en route to Canada.

In February 2005, 15 people, including New England LCN captain Joseph Achille, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation that took in over $500,000 in bets in the months leading up to the Superbowl, weapons possession, trafficking in prescription drugs, and assault conspiracy involving Laborers Union jobs.

In March 2005, New England LCN soldier Alfred "Chippy" Scivola, was indicted in Connecticut on charges of extorting $4,000 a month from a strip club operator; in partnership with the Gambinos.

In April 2005, 13 people, including New England LCN associate Arthur Gianelli, were indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, running a sports bookmaking operation using a Costa Rica wireroom, distributing video poker machines, money laundering through investments in legitimate businesses, extortionate takeover of a bar and a restaurant, and arson.

In July 2005, 10 people, including Russell Tardanico and Leonard Teperow, were indicted in Boston on charges of using the telephone for gaming purposes involving a sports bookmaking operation.

In January 2006, 24 people, including Raymond "Scarface" Jenkins, Richard Angell, Thomas Verona, and Darrell Ashdown, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, organized criminal gambling and conspiracy involving a sports bookmaking operation in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, tied to the New England LCN family, which took in $3 million a month in bets and layoffs, as well as possession of marijuana and vicodin with intent to deliver.

In April 2006, New England LCN captain Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent , was indicted in Providence on charges of collecting two seperate vig payments of $2,000 a week from loans to 2 men of $100,000 each.

In May 2006, New England LCN soldier William "Billy" Angelesco and associate Gene Giangrande were indicted in Boston on charges of extortion and running a sports bookmaking operation. He had reportedly been moving in on the Medford rackets, involved in sports bookmaking and shaking down drug dealers.

In December 2006, New England LCN underboss, Carmen "The Cheese Man" DiNunzio, was indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy to maintain a gambling operation and extortion of other sports bookmaking operations.

In December 2006, 12 people, including New England LCN captain Edward "Carmine" Lato, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running of a sports bookmaking operation that took in over $675,000, as well as trafficking in marijuana, steroids, and vicodin.

In December 2006, 2 New England LCN associates, Edward and Elias Samia, were indicted in Worcester on charges of running a numbers and card game operation.

In March 2007, 3 people, including Domenic DiCenso, the son of a late New England LCN member Franceso DiCenzo, were indicted in Boston on charges of selling cocaine out a pizza shop and weapons possession.

In August 2007, 7 people, including Joseph Russo and Steven Contrada, were indicted in Medford on charges of conspiracy, organizing and promoting gambling, keeping a place to register bets, using a telephone for gambling purposes involving a sports bookmaking operation, as well as heroin possession.

In August 2007, New England LCN associate, Gene Giangrande, was indicted in Cambridge on charges of extortion, conspiracy, assault and battery, loansharking, and running a sports bookmaking operation.

In April 2008, 13 people, including New England LCN soldier Vincent "The Animal" Ferrara, were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, using a telephone to register bets, and keeping a place to register bets involving running a sports bookmaking operation.

In May 2008, 3 people, including underboss Anthony "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio, were indicted in Boston on charges of attempted bribery to secure a $6 million construction contract in the "Big Dig" Project for $15,000 and 5% of the contract revenue.

In October 2008, 2 people, Nicholas Manocchio (the nephew of New England LCN Luigi "Baby Shanks" Manocchio and director of the Laborers New England Region Organizing Fund) and Gerald Diodati (a contractor) were indicted in Providence on charges of labor racketeering, bribery, and receiving kickbacks for contracts.

In November 2008, 25 people, including New England LCN associates Nicholas "Nicky" Pari and Gerlad "Gerry" Tillinghast, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, trafficking in cocaine, marijuana, and vicodin, selling weapons, counterfeiting, and fencing stolen goods. In a follow-up case in February 2009, 30 additional people, including George Eunis and Donald St. Germain, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, extortion, selling firearms, insurance fraud, and marijuana trafficking.

In December 2008, 10 people, including Jason McMahon and Michael Sepe, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation - which paid tribute to the New England LCN - that took in more than $400,000 in wagers in 2 months, as well as marijuana trafficking and weapons possession.

In December 2008, 11 people, including New England LCN member Peter Limone, as well as associates Thomas Palladino, Joseph DiPrizio, and Anthony Squillante, were indicted in Boston on charges of organizing a gambling syndicate involving a sports bookmaking operation, conspiracy, loansharking, and extorting payments from 4 unaffiliated sports bookmaking operations.

In December 2008, 9 people, some of whom had ties to the New England LCN, including Steven Contrada, were indicted in Boston on charges of organizing a gambling syndicate and conspiracy involving runnging a sports bookmaking operation.

In February 2009, New England captain Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent was indicted in Providence on charges of murder conspiracy.

In April 2009, New England LCN soldier Joseph "Junior" Pingaro, was indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy and tax evasion on income of $3 million.

In April 2009, 2 people, including New England LCN soldier Darin Bufalino, were indicted in Salem on charges of robbing a landscaper of $11,000.

In June 2009, New England LCN associate, Edward Gravalese, was indicted in Woburn on charges of organizing and promoting a gambling syndicate, keeping a gaming house, and conspiracy to keep a gaming house involving illegal high-stakes poker games.

In February 2010, the wife and son of captain Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent were indicted in Providence on charges of extorting tribute payments from local bookmakers for $800,000 and $1.5 million from 1988 to 2009.

In May 2010, as well as a superseding indictment in October 2010, 31 people, including New England LCN captain Mark Rossetti and soldiers Darin Bufalino and Michael Prechillo, were indicted in Boston on charges conspiracy, heroin and marijuana trafficking, running a sports bookmaking operation, loansharking, extortion, illegal weapons possession, armed robbery, money laundering, perjury, and witness intimidation. In March 2011, 4 people, Joseph Giallanella, Michael Petrillo, Charles Davis, and Charles Toomajian, some of who had been previously charged, were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, larceny, and receiving stolen property involving $1.9 million that had been embezzled from a temp agency by Davis, and laundered by Toomajian, in order to pay gambling and loansharking debts to Giallanella and Petrillo.

In November 2010, 27 people, including New England LCN associates Joseph and Richard Tiberi, were indicted in Providence on charges of running a prescription drug trafficking ring that distributed oxycontin, oxycodone, percocet, and vicodin, conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver, soliciting another to commit a crime, an attempting to make an illegal bet.

In January 2011, and in superseding indictments in March 2011 and September 2011, and April 2012, 9 New England LCN members and associates, including former boss Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, acting boss Anthony DiNunzio, captain Edward "Carmine" Lato, and soldier Alfred "Chippy" Scivola, were indicted in Rhode Island on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, and travel-in-aid of racketeering, involving monthly protection payments of $2,000 to $6,000 a month from local adult businesses from 1993 to 2011, including strip clubs such as the Cadillac Lounge, Satin Doll, Foxy Lady, Desire, and Cheaters, the Northeast Sales adult bookstore, as well as the extortion of $25,000 from an auto dealer.

In May 2011 and November 2011, 25 people, including New England LCN captain Edward "Carmine" Lato, and soldiers Frank "Bobo" Marrapese Jr. and Alfred "Chippy" Scivola, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy to commit extortion, loansharking, organized criminal gambling, sports bookmaking, illegal trafficking in prescription drugs, criminal solicitation, felony shoplifting, and marijuana possession.

In December 2011, it was reported in an affidavit by the Rhode Island PD that Patriarca associate Frederick "Freddy" Carrozza had netted over $2 million from the sale of a house, even though it was only valued at $900,000, by the buyer lying on a mortgage application and getting a $2.2 million mortgage; with the sale proceeds going to Carrozza.

In February 2013, New England LCN associate Enrico Ponzo was indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, marijuana trafficking, loansharking, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, money laundering, and murder during the 1990's.

" He put a lot of work into it as well as waning power"

LMAO- You're a funny guy, that truly made me laugh.

Robert Senter, Anthony Senters Uncle. This is the adress to his old recycling company: 8029 Foster Avenue, Canarsie, Brooklyn.

Did'nt the purple Cow later become "The A Lounge"?

Joe "Butch" Corrao had a place on Mulberry, across from his Cafe Biondo. I believe it was referred to as the Andre Doria.

JCB both the lists of osses and bosses the been indicted shows theres no decimation going on might be alot of cases and people getting pinched but its more than proves theres alot of activity going on that list goes back to 2000 and to current date and it does nothing but prove the extent of activity here in boston and providence so if thats a family decimated MAN i would like to see what a rising family or one thats in a state of excell really looks like b/c IMO and im sure most will agree that list shows a family thats as active as it gets

You look at Italy/Sicilian families there getting indicted and arrested by the number and they are far from decimated so a family getting frequent arrests is not justifiable to be considered decimated at all far from it but on of active and strong family ventures and the will to a steady of heavy money flow thats what i see. The feds dont go after kansas city, pittsburg or even tampa family but boston, ny families, chicago b/c they are super active and needs to be stopped so to try to slow them down they get indicted. But after two three indictments you think they are decimated but you just listed a span of thirteen years and still no stopping and flow of activity thats call an very active family no where close to decimation regardless of members incarcerated.

And from your list I counted over 200 members or assocaites arrested and if thats a family decimated with another 50 or so active made guys in the streets today never mind the unkown info and made guys ...man thats somewhat of a powerhouse if you ask me a dynasty if this was college football lmaol count the numbers its over 200 people if thats not active or anywhere close to decimated i must not grown in a criminal household with a active father thats more than connected and in north end the same places where crime happened everyday

Jcb whnever your ready to answer or anyone else for that matter

Providence is wiped out and I'm tired of arguing about this. The Patriarca Crime Family is in "bad shape" as your numbers make absolutely no sense and you have absolutely no proof. There is no boss, half the guys are in prison or semi retired or "not active."

Can't compare Italy to the US...its a way of life over there. I'd say the Feds are crushing the Italians in the U.S. Finding guys who are 100% Italian in this day in age is hard to do in our country. RICO has decimated families across the country. NOT 1 family today is as powerful as they were even 20 years ago, let alone 50 years ago.

Not my list, its the list of Ivy League

Do you actually believe that the Patriarca Family is even close in power to a NY family, even the Colombo's and Bonanno's are in much better shape. Philly is in better shape than New England. It will NEVER be what it was...in any place...

What you are saying is that the US Attorney in Rhode Island and Massachusetts is clueless, correct? You are saying that the FBI is "not" winning the war on OC in New England, correct? If you believe that, maybe you should look into some anti-psychotic medication.

They're not making new blood according to DeLuca and Rossetti as well as the entire FBI in New England. They are going to be defunct in the near future. Will there be any activity, sure...but no structured hierarchy or traditional mafia structure.

Please do not call me out to answer as I do not want to spend another minute with somebody who is such a fanboy of the streets and who can't accept information handed down by the Feds and the US Attorney's office. If Joe Ruggiero is the only made guy left in Providence...its not looking too good. I'm done with this topic in regards to the strength of this family...which is on its last breath.

Show me when deluca or rossetti said there is no new blood being made show me. U.s. Attorney are u serious we have the most corrupted Fbi in the world the might be on the payroll never mind say anything close to being accurate . The only truth to anything you said or they say is that its not what it was 20,30,40, years ago its not and it will never be thats the truth. But you listed something some else wrote and that proves theres nothing but activity going on with indictment after indictment and still there's no stopping indictments evolving members and associates and so on.

tell me this jcb is Achilles dead or locked up is sparo dead or locked up is ruggerio is matty jr, is moriarty, is dennis cappiccilo, is milisi, is cappola jr, huh they are out and active is angelini or sparo or pari or manocchio's nephews thay are all active all in providence all making moves some are like ruggerio with no record clean fierce and strictly quiet in his activity its quality guys who make that up never mind fuccillo and bonagfilia all be out in a year or two along with lato and few more

the boston socail clubs and old hangouts are most in tact the Florentine café, the old soccer club on north st, Francesca restaurant, luca's restuarant, is still frequented the old Marconi club is still very active, couple of barber shops that's basically socail clubs ...revere still has a few, so does Everett and eastie (east boston), has at least 8 restaurants/café/bars and 5 known socail clubs, some of the least exposed places I try to withhold the names for safety precautions but its there the connected guys here you know

Those are not my numbers it what you posted made by whoever that list its over 200 people members/assocaites that you mentioned count it. you can count right??? Im not saying its a big and as strong as any family but its far from bad shape guy. It might be as strong as any family not in numbers wise b/c NY and Philly are cities with more than a million and Ny has 10 million compared to Boston and Providence thats a population of 600k close to 700k of the two cities combined BUT its def in the conversation with the 6 families in the two areas so ihe shape it should be in or wants to be in but its in good shape considering you mentioned over 200 members/associates thats been indicted in 13 years and they still have 60 or so made people and thats what the public think it is.

Micheal Prochillo, Billy Angelesco, Alby Folcarelli,Junior Pingaro,Paterno, Louie Dinunzio, Louis & Greg Costa, Tommy Iafrate, Ray Jenkins, Dom Serino, Richard Gambale's kid along with Bobbt Russo's boys and i think so was Floramo's kids but im not sure about them but everyone else all was made after 2005 so Idk what you are getting info you got but they are getting made and all of them are done real recent

Jenkins? Folcarelli? The Costas? Iafrate? These guys in the most recent federal affidavits are still considered associates. I will agree that a few of the names were made but not nearly enough to replenish the amount of general attrition. And let's face it, Billy Angelesco is a severe heroin addict so if that's who is being made, the family is in trouble. Louie DiNunzio has never been confirmed and Jenkins isn't even Italian. I find it hard to believe that Baby Shacks made some of these clowns...Why would he make so many guys in Boston but hardly anybody in Providence which is in his own back yard?

Yes, the FBI had some corruption in Boston, that's been well documented...and after that scandal, you don't think that the FBI director reassigned or appointed the most squeaky clean federal agents to the Boston office for damage control and public relations? 98% of FBI agents do their job with integrity and these guys know almost every move these guys on the streets are making. Surveillance, informants and regular citizens in the neighborhood are providing detailed info on most of these guys. It's their job to be on them 24/7. They know who they talk to, who they do business with, where they go and when. The mafia "isn't" a secret anymore. You don't think DeLuca and Rossetti gave them a ton of shit? You don't think Salemme gave them everything? These guys aren't intelligent, most of them are street thugs from the neighborhood and guys like Angelesco are trolling the black neighborhoods looking for their next shot of heroin. C'mon man, wake up.

Here is a clip from SA Jeffrey Sallet on the New England Mob:

http://www.wpri.com/target-12/inside-the-mafia/bringing-down-the-mob-timeline

This was a recent article done by investigative journalist Milton J. Valencia after extensive interviews with the Feds:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/05/08/new_england_mafia_fades_away/

This investigative piece says no more than 30 members and that is not taking into account Mannocchio (IP), Lato (IP), DeLuca (IP), St. Laurent (IP), Marapese (IP), Ruggiero (not active), Gugliemetti (IP), Rossetti (IP), Limone (federal monitoring), Cheeseman (IP), Fat Anthony (IP), Prochilo Jr. (IP), Darren Bufalino (IP), Scivola (IP), DelSanto (not active), Junior Patriarca (not active), Rudy Sciarra (deceased), Vito DeLuca (not active-outcast) etc...All these names are calculated into their "estimated" membership totals. Here are 18 members who really have no role in LCN currently and who will be on federal monitoring once released...and guys like Manocchio, Lato, Marapese, Scivola and St. Laurent may die in prison.

Roberts Lounge, the old Vario crew hangout, adress: 114-45 Lefferts Boulevard

Veteran and friends social club, was Paul Castellano's club until he shunned it

Toyland social club- Nicky Marangello's club who was under boss of Bonanno's

Tali's bar and restaurant, Sammy bulls crew hung out

Triangle club, headquarters of the chin/ genovese hierarchy

The Motion Lounge, Sonny Blacks club house

Roseland in Buffalo NY
Patty's in Rome/Utica NY
Gramaldi's Utica NY
The classic in North Providence RI
Manetta's tavern in NY city
Nick's Fish Market in Rosemont IL
Rosebud in Chicago IL
St. Ambrogio society Rockford Il

Sorry my friend, but you are very much mistaken. Providence is still very much alive, very much active, has a boss, underboss, 5 capos and a at least 50 active made guys and associates in triple figures. Was it what it once was? No. But to call it "wiped out" is almost laughable.

lol

LOL?
Even the B acknowledges 30, and as usual their intel is a joke.
Don't buy into the "LCN is dying" media bullshit.
For every guy who turns or takes a pinch, there are 5 under the radarfew people outside the loop even know exist. It's the difference between knowing the streets and reading reports from local news stations

trust me im not one to buy into the typical media headlines that says the mafia is dead everytime theres a bust. and if your saying theres 50 made guys in the whole patriarca family(both boston and providence) then i could buy that number. but if your trying to say theres 50 made guys in the providence faction alone, your facts are way off. there was a little more than half that number of made guys there when they were the power base under manocchio. and its pretty much the other way around, for every 5 guys the feds know about MAYBE thers one guy who flys under the radar. as JCB pointed if a guy like Joe Ruggiero who trys to go about as a legit business man and being well respected in his community cant even stay under the radar, i doubt there are so many who can.

When I say "Providence" I am indeed referring to the membership from the Hampshires to Boston and down the I95 corridor. perhaps I should have made that more clear.
When trying to get an accurate head count, it's not as easy as it used to be. Maybe more than any other family, the New England guys wore their buttons like a new suite. In the 80s, you could walk into The Classic and they might as well have had signs on their back. By "under the radar" I mean those days are over.

Thanks for seeing my point of view. No disrespect at all to Joerusso (because I do believe he knows some things that the government does not), but to say there are 20-30 made guys in Providence that nobody knows about in this day in age is "far fetched" IMO. And remember, Ruggiero was never charged with a crime...If the FBI wants to nab somebody, it's inevitable. 24/7 surveillance, phone taps, wiretaps, informants, regular citizens who hate the mafia and legitimate businessmen who run to the FBI when being shaken down, it's almost impossible to fly under the radar. If anything, the FBI has a jacket on somebody and is monitoring their daily routine.