Springfield, MA Mafia

Adolfo 'Big Al' Bruno
Fotios 'Freddy' Geas
Ty Geas
Francesco 'Skyball' Scibelli
Anthony J. Arillotta
Salvatore L. "Big Nose Sam" Cufari
Felix L. Tranghese
Albert “Baba” Scibelli
Carmine Manzi
Giuseppe “Little Joe” Manzi
Emilio Fusco
Paul “The Penman” Cardaropoli
Carlo Sinischalchi*
Antonio Miranda*
Joseph Fiore*
Anthony “Turk” Scibelli
John “Jake” Nettis
Gaetano Milano
Frank Pugliano
Louis Pugliano
Frank Colantoni Jr.
Anthony J. Delevo
Gary D. Westerman
Mario Fiore
Ricky S. Songini
Brandon D. Croteau
Andrew Pradella
John Pradella
Anthony J.Santaniello
Anthony Scibella
Anthony Delevo
Frankie Roche

These guys with the exception of the 3 with the * by their names, were all part of the Genovese Crime Family. The Genovese have had a crew running Western Mass. and the area around it since the 1930s. While they were indeed the Boss in Spingfield, the Bosses were only Capos in the Genovese crime family. Namely, 'Big Nose Sam', 'Skyball' and 'Big Al'.

The other 3 were the local bosses during the prohibition era. Carlo 'King of the Bootleggers' Sinischalchi held the title less than a year before he was whacked. Then 2 more gangsters, Miranda then Fiore married his widow and took over the business. Miranda died of blood poisoning, Fiore was gunned down a year after the widow was shot and killed (Fiore was wounded) in an ambush.

The reason I'm posting this is because it seems relatively obscure and I live about 20 minutes from Springfield so naturally I took an interest in it's organized crime. At one point,in their heyday, the Springfield 'crew' held rackets from Albany to Hartford. Organized crime in Springfield had a foothold in more contemporary, traditional rackets: street lotteries, truck heists, illegal sports-betting and casino junkets, among others. Today there is no clear boss of Springfield.

If anyone has anymore info on the Springfield mob or who is currently in charge, by all means, reply...

Source:
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/springfield_mafia_landscape_ba.html
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/organized_crime_in_springfield.html
http://www.geocities.ws/organizedcrimesyndicates/springfield-mass.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Bruno
http://mafiatoday.com/tag/springfield-mass/
http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Cufari
http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Francesco_Scibelli

The Springfield Crew had a nice run but they're all finished. Al Bruno, who was killed in 2003, used to play racquetball almost everyday with the district attorney, Matty Ryan back in the 80's/90's. There was even a story that Al Bruno had killed some guy as a favor to Matty Ryan. I'll try and find that article and post the link. Kinda new to this so it might take a minute.

I did a little digging but haven't found that article yet but I would just like to say that I may have misinformed you about Al Bruno playing racquetball "almost everyday" with the district attorney. They did play together but it wasn't almost everyday like I said in my previous post. The articles I just read said they frequently played together. I think Stephanie Barry wrote the article about Al Bruno killing someone as a favor to the district attorney that I mentioned above.

I think that's a bit of a stretch, while the Bruno murder brought down some guys I'm sure it took all of 3 minutes for a new capo to be put in charge there.

It wasn't like they infiltrated the entire crew, they just got the 3 or 4 guys in the murder conspiracy. To me, Springfield would be a goldmine. It's off the beaten track and has flown under the radar for years until the Bruno killing.

I don't think there is much, if any, Genovese influence in Springfield anymore. I don't even think there's a made guy left. At least an active made guy. I agree that Springfield is/could be a gold mine. It's been very corrupt but then again, many places are. When they got AA, and the Geas bros I feel like those guys were the crew, along with Fusco. Obviously there were others involved but I don't know what's left of them. I'd love to know what's currently going on.

the article about Bruno playing Racquet ball with the DA is in the links I included in the OP

I know, my bad. I went to the links after posting. My apologies.

so yesterday Genovese made man Anthony arillotta got sentenced to 8 and half yrs which is probably the most I seen a judge give to a made rat in nyc in a while. Colombo capo ray yesterday got 4 months but didn't have 2 and a half bodies like Anthony. but old dead capo al Bruno son gave his victim impact statement in court you can read it somewhere it starts off praising the mob but he crushes this guy Anthony in it makes him look stupid. but hay he was a shooter and earner for nigro bringing him a couple grand a month plus driving down to the Bronx to shoot guys on request(frank dabado union guy) how he survived like 10 shot from 2 shooter god had his back. back to the victim impact its pretty bad plus al Bruno son filed a wrongful death lawsuit in mass which he'll win so if Anthony weasels out of witsec to come home he can never own shit in his name. oh forgot the judge castel hit him with a 2 million dollar fine lifes over for him plus his wife and kids left him I think same case for the Colombo guy ray he said in court. next thing the Colombo guys who did the cop killing plus like 6 other urders that no buddy else were found guilty off I think there gteeting hit off 15+. big dino and comp. killing college kids and trying to pin it on Colombo family biz.

Hey PMAC I read Bruno's son's statement, really powerful stuff. I agree with everything he said. He really exposed Arillotta as the coward he really is. Its crazy that Phil Leonetti got less time for more bodies but then again he gave the Feds way more. Really there was not too much Arillotta could give them outside Springfield.

the Best part about the Maragni sentencing was when his lawyer said he would lose his job if he goes to jail. I love how the prosecutor said that's too bad and if he is actually good at his job then maybe he can get it back when he gets out. It is good to see these jerks get some punishment. I bet both of these guys get in trouble again just like Gravano did.

he gave them Artie Nigro, the acting boss at the time, that was a pretty big arrest, and Nigro got a life sentence in large part due to Arilotta, thats why i was kinda surprised he got hit so hard. but in reality Arilliotta has been locked up since 2010 so he's got 4 years as time served plus no way he does more than 80% of sentence, so he will probably be out in a couple of years.

True, what I meant was that in terms of informants such as Crazy Phil and Sammy Gravano, his information was pretty insignificant. I mean he really had no impact other than Artie Nigro on the Genovese operations in NYC or Jersey.

Never posted on here before but came across this site while doing a search. AA did get one of the stiffer sentences. Why? No one but the but the judge knows that. He gave them more than Artie though. He gave up a body that had been a cold case for years. He gave them numerous other bits of info that had lead to other arrests as well. And he was truthful and credible. He's done over 4 years. He's only got about 2 and some change left. Yea, he pretty much had 3 bodies and in the grand scheme of things did get a good deal. And the victim impact speech? Full of lies. And all that biblical crap?? I got 4 words...practice what you preach. It will be awhile to find a good boss in Springfield considering more than half of the 'candidates' are cooperators themselves. Only difference is, they did it from the street. Snakes.

First off Gaetano Milano was made with the Patriarca's, I believe he pulled the trigger on Wild Billy Grasso back in the day, also there are at least a handful of Genovese guys from up there who aren't in prison namely the Manzi's, Pugliano's etc, also your forgetting Tony Volpe

Gaetano Milano is consider a rat I guess because he denauced the mafia at his sentencing which is wht they all do today he did 27yrs. he was a rising star in the mob I guess he didn't rat on people but he told the judge why he killed billy grasso. I think grasso wouldn't let any of the ct and western mass patriarca guys go see joe russo who was consig at the time. so the springfield patriarca guys and the boston guys with the help of the Genovese guys rocked him to sleep. he thought he was going to a sit down on Worcester with carlo mastro. over a vending machine dispute. theres only I think 2 or3 made guys in Worcester and 1 in springfield. anthoyn fucked that crew up. stupid mistake killing al Bruno should have shelfed him then nigro ok the guys to beat felix ive never heard of that before. felix testified he was made at a house in springfield so I wonder if chin fat tony and bobby manna made the trip. when Bruno became capo in 02 the top guys went to springfield nigro DeLuca and a couple others.

it never came out public but the state police had a hotel room wired in the bershires in 1995 it was a meeting with a couple crews of Genovese guys. like 10 guys or more.

Springfield and Hartford have more going on than you think. There's strong and concentrated pockets of Italians there and people are just not going to give up on bookmaking and shy...No way, no how.

I'm sure the Genovese guys just slide someone else into that spot and they'll lay low for a while.

they're all rats in springfield. they rat from the street. or they already did their time and have kept their noses clean. speaking of, can't have a junkie for boss either.

pmac, where in the berkshires did they do that sting, im interested in that, its where i reside currently, the way they do each other around here is asmazing. street ppl ratting on each other etc