And in other New England news..

Three Men Indicted for Lying about Casino Land
Allegedly Concealed Charles Lightbody’s Financial Interest from Wynn Resorts and the Massachusetts Gaming Commission

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2014/October/LightbodyPR.html

Lightbody been around forever on revere...a serious guy

Doesn't he own that fleabag strip joint place in Revere too..?

Plus, they should be worried about DeNunzio and Gattineri, they're the made guys and Lightbody gets all the press...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03...d_ReadMore_Pos5

Never saw them mentioned as made..

He's gotta be high ranking associate if not made seeing who his relatives are? They probably dont make alot of guys over there so he is probably treated the same.

Both DeNunzio and Gattineri are 100% made guys, the funny things is Lightbody was suppose to be the clean front man, lol...

Wow, have to be honest, I hadn't heard that they were made guys. Nor has that been reported in the news. But I'm not an expert either. Usually the news around here grabs onto headlines when guys are actually in the mafia.

Is this Denunzio any relation to the 'Cheese' family?

I would have to believe that this DeNunzio would be the first Harvard/MIT graduate to a made guy in the mob, in the world most likely. Which would make him both very smart and very stupid at the same time...

http://thedenunziogroup.com/about.html

Neither of them are made....Charlie Lightbody is a lot of things but a clean front is not one of them. Don't kid yourself-Charlie is the only street guy of the 3.

Az- you can't be from Boston........you couldn't be more wrong.

Apparently the FBI is digging in Rhode Island right now in regards to a mob murder. No clue if it's a recent or old hit. No other info at the moment.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A backhoe unearthed dirt and sand Tuesday on property associated with a Providence man who is accused of having New England Mafia ties, while an FBI spokeswoman confirmed that federal agents are working in the same vicinity.
The focus of activity was just off Woodward Road, behind a building that’s among a handful of old mill buildings at the intersection of Woodward and Branch Avenue.
The complex encompasses 725 Branch Ave., a converted mill building, where FBI agents recovered 1,400 marijuana plants this past August.
During that raid, the 69-year-old owner of 725 Branch, also the owner of a company named Branch Realty, was arrested and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
According to an FBI affidavit in support of William Ricci’s arrest warrant, an informant reported that Ricci “is a long standing New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) associate.”
During the day of the raid, investigators seized marijuana plants, about $14,000 and a .22 caliber firearm and ammunition, according to a news release.
On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the agency’s Boston office, Kristen Setera, confirmed that FBI investigators had been working in the area of Branch Avenue and Woodward, but she declined to characterize their work, aside from saying the efforts are part of an ongoing investigation.
Setera would not answer questions regarding any connection between the digging and the Ricci case.


http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160329/fbi-police-dig-behind-providence-building

I live in AZ, grew up there in Boston. A child hood friend of mine is involved with two North Shore strip clubs, he has many friends tied in deep and he says they are. Harvard or not, DeNunzio wanted influence & muscle and "they" (LCN) wanted the construction exposure. I guess DeNunzio's father had longstanding ties to the North End so Harvard or not he was made part of the family....and you think Gattineri is just some guy?

Heck, NE LCN is a different bird, rumor long had it one of Marvin Haglers trainer was made in the 70's so he wouldn't get messed with or have his fighters encroached on.

....and BTW, the place they are digging, the guy that owns that building was very tight with Bobby DeLuca.....

Sorry Mike an answer: in US for be a graduate you must go to an university?
Because Don Carlo ' s son Thomas also was graduated but dont go to an university, there is a thing that I don't understand ?
For me dinunzio is stupid for joint the mob and dont become a white collar criminal.

Dear AZ- good morning. Hope the weather out there is nice. Your friend is pulling your leg....... Neither of those guys are made-end if story-they're both shitting their Dockers that Charlie plays nice. They guy that owned the land in RI was close w Deluca but he also go popped in a federal drug bust so at 69yrs old.........Deluca flipped forever ago-if this came from him the hole would have been dug up a year ago.

I remember reading that the DiSarro hit was a Salemme production, that Cadillac Frank's late son Frank Jr. garroted him. Not sure how true that is. But if true, the only one left to pay for it is the retired former boss.

Yeah, not sure Furio. But in order to graduate, you have to go to the school. Unless you attended the School of Hard Knocks.

Here is the lastest info on that FBI digging site:

By Mark Reynolds
Journal Staff Writer Posted Mar. 30, 2016 at 8:32 pmUpdated at 8:35 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The digging behind an old Wanskuck mill building continued Wednesday as some media, including WPRI and the Boston Globe, reported, citing unnamed sources, that the federal agents’ work at the location is based on a tip that a South Boston nightclub manager might be buried there.
The Boston Globe reported that federal prosecutors believe they know how and when Steven A. DiSarro, of Westwood, Mass., was killed after he disappeared in 1993 but they’ve never charged anyone in the case.
DiSarro, a Federal Hill native and real estate developer with ties to organized crime figures in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, was reported missing by his wife after he disappeared in 1993.
Related content Photo: RI State Police on site of FBI's Providence digHis gray Mercury Marquis was parked at the Channel, a South Boston nightclub that he co-managed, around the time of his disappearance. The club had been linked to the indicted son of reputed New England mob boss Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme.
In 2004, Salemme was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston on two counts of obstruction of justice for making false statements about what he knew about the murder of DiSarro, according to WPRI.
At various times Wednesday, Rhode Island State Police K-9 dogs and their handlers were brought onto the site of the digging in a vacant lot just off Woodward Road, directly behind a building that’s among various former mill buildings off Branch Avenue. Early last evening someone from the medical examiner's office visited the site.
http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20...ppeared-in-1993

http://gangsterreport.com/gr-sources-one...r-i-fed-search/

For what it's worth, Scott chimes in here. He implicates DeLuca, Rossetti, and Jackie Salemme as well.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columni...om_usual_haunts

Howie Carr chimes in

Hope the state grows some balls and charges someone with his murder but since the fees gave the boss frank a pass his son died and Steve flemmi is doing life what's the point. But this goes back to whiteys statchur is that the word? In Boston he may have not more clout then flemmi shit I bleive he didn't. Flemmi had the connections with the north end and prov. Also he was a winter hill associate from the jump. But let's says 30000 a week is crazy for a skim in 93 if salemmi his son n flemmi split 30000 a week that's not bad an more believable. Were was whitey. Flemmi must love it whiteys dieing in jail with him but flemmi got all his people a pass.

3000 a grand each a week I think. But frank salemmi told so many lies on stand what the fuck are they doing digging for anyone. I'm not saying that bum fed connely is innocent but he didn't kill that guy down Florida and for the gov to do what there doing to him just isn't right in are day of viral videos.

that is what a cooperator said and the g believes..they put frank back in the hole for many months trying to break him..he has denied his son and brother had anything to do with it. i think both his brother and son are dead..does anyone know?

Jackie is still alive and active.

In the early 90's I use to go to the Channel a lot, after it turned topless. I could walk there in 15 minutes from where I lived. I saw Cadillac Frank there many time with his crew...it's one reason I started researching local Boston mob lure,

I wonder why it took Bobby D all these years to give up the body if it's really Disarro they found.

I got the feeling that it was the property owner. billy Ricci, who may have provided the info as he is jammed up on drug charges

Wow, it looks like this DiSarro family has just run into some horrible luck. Not only does it appear that the body found is most likely Steven DiSarro, but it appears that his son and namesake, Steven DiSarro Jr., died suddenly on last week leaving a wife and very young child. What a horrible week for them if they are indeed related. I think they are.

Looks like Moretti and Cipolla were part of a gambling bust back in 1999 that included Patriarca members Anthony St Laurent and Rudolph Sciarra.



Warwick Men in Internet Gambling Sweep
by Rob Borkowski
April 12, 2016


Warwick, R.I. — State Police arrested 17 men on charges relating to the management of a criminal internet gambling organization, six from Warwick, and searched The Cozy Grill restaurant on Warwick Avenue Tuesday.

The arrests are the result of an eight (8) month investigation lead by members of the State Police Intelligence Unit and the Rhode Island Attorney General.

This morning several local police departments executed arrest warrants and search warrants, including the State Police, FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Providence Police, Warwick Police, Cranston Police, Scituate Police, North Providence Police, Narragansett Police, East Providence Police, West Warwick Police, Johnson Police, Lincoln Police, Central Falls Police, East Greenwich Police, Woonsocket Police and Newport Police.

State Police Lt. Colonel Todd Catlow said State Police searched the Cozy Grill Restaurant at 440 Warwick Ave. this morning as part of the investigation, which also included a search of a Narragansett home. Catlow declined to explain how the search of the restaurant figured into the investigation, because it is continuing, he said.

The following is a list of subjects who were arrested today and the charges pending:

Thomas J. Pilderian, 45, of 55 Pine Ridge Road, Cranston, charged with :1) Bookmaking, 2.) Organized Criminal Gambling, 3.) Conspiracy.

Mark B. Battista, age 39, of 400 Narragansett Parkway, Warwick, charged with: Bookmaking, Organized Criminal Gambling, Conspiracy, and Possession of Controlled Substance – 3 counts.

Mark V. Marinaro, age 43, of 11 Winward Circle, Warwick, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, Conspiracy.

Jason M. Pilderian, 39, of 25 Talbut Road, Scituate, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, and Conspiracy.

Joseph R. Brunelle, 38, of 12 Palm St., North Providence, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy

Eric D. Glaude, 40, of 35 Marigold Circle, North Providence, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy.

Dustin R. Sears, 40, of 40 Braeburn Circle, Cranston, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, Conspiracy

David J. Disano, 42 of 83 West Hill Drive, Cranston, charged with Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy
Jonny E. Lubo, 44, of 111 Wunnegin Circle, Warwick, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy.

James J. Petrella, age 31, of 26 Beach Row, Narragansett, Bookmaking, 2.) Organized Criminal Gambling, 3.) Conspiracy.

Timothy J. Moretti, age 46, of 1710 Phenix Avenue, Cranston, charged with: Bookmaking, Organized Criminal Gambling, Conspiracy, Violation of Probation for prior convictions of Possession with Intent to Deliver Cocaine and Possession of 1 ounce to 1 kilogram of Cocaine.

Sean W. Furney, age 24, of 48 Roosevelt Street, Warwick, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy.

Brian K. Cipolla, age 48, of 178 Council Rock Road, Cranston, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy.

Lewis Silveira, age 50, of 154 North Street, Warwick, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy

John Depietro, age 41, 39 Prospect Avenue, South Kingstown, charged with: Possession with intent to deliver 1 to 5 kilos of marijuana, Possession of 1 to 5 kilos of marijuana, Possession of Adderall with intent to deliver.

Christopher R. Costantino, age 24, of 10 Cedar Pond Drive, Warwick, charged with: Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy.

Joseph A. Capelli, age 38, of 58 Firglade Drive, Cranston, Organized Criminal Gambling, 2.) Conspiracy

All 17 men were arraigned today at 2 p.m. in Third Division District Court, 222 Quaker Lane, Warwick, RI 02886.

http://warwickpost.com/state-police-arrest-six-warwick-men-in-internet-gambling-sweep/

So I guess I'll be the one to ask the question - why do we have them labeling Parillo an associate when Scott has said he's consigliere or higher?


Mob associate to serve 5 years for 2011 nightclub assault
By Bill Tomison
April 12, 2016

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Convicted murderer Anthony Parrillo was sentenced Monday to 15 years, 5 to serve, at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston, for assaulting a couple in 2011.

A judge found Parrillo guilty of the felony assault in a bench trial back in November 2015.

Parrillo, 65, was charged in connection with an incident on Atwells Avenue in Providence’s Federal Hill. A man and woman told authorities they were attacked by bouncers outside of the now-closed “Club Two Nine Five.”

The judge had dismissed a second count of felony assault earlier in the case.

Parillo was remanded to the ACI immediately after sentencing. He’s known to be an associate of the Patriarca crime family, and pleaded guilty in 1986 to the 1982 murder of two men involving a drug deal; he was released to home confinement in 1994.

In 1997, Parrillo was profiled in a Target 12 Investigation revealing he was working as a Teamster on the Michael Corrente film “Outside Providence.” Undercover video showed Parrillo acting as a bodyguard and driver to film star Alec Baldwin.

At the time, law enforcement sources identified Parrillo as a close associate to then-mob boss Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio.

http://wpri.com/2016/04/12/mob-associate-to-serve-5-years

It's a small world sometimes. I was in line at a wake for the brother of a friend of mine last night. There was a guy just a couple of people in front of me who looked very familiar but I couldn't pinpoint it. It was a long line and I had plenty of time to figure out who it was when it finally dawned on me that I had seen this guy in the newspaper and on the news. It was Charlie Lightbody and his brother. Then it started to make sense to me. My friends other surviving brother was a defense attorney for amongst others, Darin Bufalino and Charlie Lightbody. He actually seemed like a very respectful guy. Nice of him to pay his respects while his trial is ongoing. Not sure everybody would do that.

He was listed as an associate in '97 (In 1997, Parrillo was profiled.....At the time, law enforcement sources identified Parrillo as a close associate)

Though Im not familiar with what context Scott has him as consig so....

I think because its a state case they can't bring up any of the mafia names and shit the feds love to bounce around for press. Its was a allsault case not mob. Probably why it didn't get any press. He's been in jail since November and gonna be there for a few years there's a position open. I think baby shacks was super secretive cause ray Jr shit got recorded by the feds. Who knows how many guys are made in Rhode island my guess would be around 15 20. That guy st Laurent who was claiming he was on his death bed 10 yrs ago is probably in a half way house. His release date is sometime this summer.

Other then ray Jr none of the sons of guys got in which basically is the way its rebounded across the northeast in Numbers.

Funny ray sr said on a wiretap all them guys in cierco are there cause of a father or a uncle.

Are they family members or associates Patriarca?

I would think this article would have identified Parillo as his rank if he actually had one. I don't recall seeing him listed as consigliere anywhere except Scott and blogs that passed on what Scott has said. In other words, I'm not inclined to give Scott's info the benefit of the doubt on this.

And there are about a dozen members left on Providence.

like pmac said its a state case they cant bring up mafia names (but as usual) any opportunity to bash scott. Not saying scott is always factural i even think he gets some stuff wrong but the way you and a couple of others constantly try and discredit him is riciclous and i think its personal your dislike for him is not a new thing it goes back years but i would trust what he has to say over you he is a mob reporter whenever you like him or not especially as you seem to have a real dislike for this guy and not just on this forum i have seen this your informantion i nearly always enjoy because you are factual and you alwways say you consider other sources before making a judgment its just like you always write of what scott has to say before even considering it. You also say he is not credible etc well your hero capeci has allowed him to write on his gangland on more than one occasion so if capeci thinks he is credible and antastia has a good relationship with scott

What a profoundly stupid comment.

So because there is zero evidence for Scott's claim, Ivy, choosing to harbour doubts, must therefor be doing so because he hates Scott and have a historical enmity towards him.

What utter garbage.

A) Scott being a reporter does not make him infallible.
B) This subject matter by its nature is incredibly grey and vague and being skeptical at ANY information without serious evidence or corroboration is a healthy mindset.
C) No-one HATES Scott. Some people just dont choose to blindly accept uncorroborated extreme claims. EG Detroit having 60 buttons. Why's that so fucking hard to believe?
Half you guys who worship Scott just WANT him to be right. Truth be damned.

Sometimes I wonder, though, why Ivy holds traditional publications in such high regard. I doubt WRPI has much left in its organized crime reporting division, if it ever had one at all...

now your misquoting me and making stuff up

A) i said scott is not always right infact i have said he is often wrong not once i have said

B) i agree with that what i am saying is i dont like the way some people always say he is wrong before considering what he has said

C)Now that this annoyed me not once have i ever said detroit mafia has 60 made guy that is bullshit i dont even think scott has said that if you have seen any of my posts on Detroit i have always said i think they have around 20 made guys never 60 tell me once when i have said 60 or even 30 made guys. Scotts Detroit stuff is good but i have always considered other information when making a view on Detroit. I dont "worship" scott i think he gets alot wrong he could be wrong i am saying i dont like the way people automatically say he is wrong without even considering he could be right and from seeing stuff on the real deal forum it looks personal to me

Or maybe him being an associate comes from the States Attorney's office and they just repeat it?

None of us wake up and think, "How can I shit on Scott today?" I don't have anything personal against him. However, if he has indeed misidentified Parillo, it would be another example of him being fast and free with labels. Which, for the record, was the one of the original reasons for disagreement on another board. You know, taking a family that is arguably viable and making it more hierarchical than General Motors.

As for holding other publications in such high regard, I tend to give them as much weight as they deserve. Outside of guys who follow the mob for a living - Capeci, Raab, Robbins, Anastasia, Marzulli, etc - the media can often be sloppy when it comes to the mob. I just think it's an eyebrow raiser that no other media outlet has identified this guy as anything other than an associate and he hasn't been identified by the government as anything else. And there have been state cases in Rhode Island in recent years where mob ranks were specified. Not sure where people got the idea they can't do that.

You misunderstand me. I'm not saying you said this. Scott did. Hence, there's basis for a healthy skepticism. Which is all Ivy and myself have.
We Simply ask for a little corroboration regarding big claims.
There's nothing personal whatsoever which is what you're insinuating and what I have issue with.

Definitely not consigliere but he was a very powerful guy with lots of income and interests around Providence. This was my point all along with you guys, up until a few years ago nobody had even really heard his name and he was the most powerful guy in Providence.

The gambling bust is interesting, lots of Italian names, that's the "farm system" there.

I think parillo is n a fox undercover video. He's with baby shacks deluca limone and others at a restaurant in the north end. Think Its was after mark Rossetti's moms funeral. There all eating at a table he has a pony tail wearing a leather jacket. 2009 maybe. Before deluca flipped and the state police outed roseeti as a FBI mole. Read they might be charging rosetti and others with dsaros murder. Guess they found the body.

pmca, That guy stlaurent that you think you know so much about isn't in a half way house and never was. stlaurent is still in prison, and he is still sick he did his time so leave HIM ALONE.
And leave Ray jr ALONE TOO.

I'm not speaking on pmac's behalf but from what I've read he barely talked those 2 guys you're so concerned about. Last time I checked, I found out that we all, or most of us, come here to discuss the mob. When I read your post I thought he slandered St Laurent and rubber lips but when I read his post I realized you wasted your time getting upset, just like I wasted my time with this post.

If the saint gets out it'll be the greatest comeback of all-time, I think his date is like 2018, that bastard will make it I bet.....and JR, he's living the good life, what's there to talk about?

Yaeh he raps it up in September.I remebr it was on the local news they brought him to his arraignment on a stretcher. Good for him if he doesn't die in jail. This guy Joe y used to handle the martoranos brother money I read in a Howie carr book. He's fucked how the feds gets 6 different victims to say they were extorted. They must have owed a lot of money or the feds twisted there arms. He just did like 10+yrs. There was a article the feds were kissed he didn't pay back like 250k in fines. Probably gonna get hammerd. But the extortion cases against that guy spunky fell apart and he got like 2 yrs.

Maybe that Wynn casino case isn't going as planned.

Forbes wrote a article destroying the prosecutions case. There trying to bring mafia and strip clubs into it when its only a land deal. Its a stretch. Wynns lawyer knew about light body and worked a deal out around him.

Joey y huge $$ guy out in Newton, astronomical sports book....

5 more go down for gambling ...including^^
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/five-boston-area-men-charged-extortion-and-gambling

I didn't even know that Yerardi was out. He's been in jail more than out in recent years.

All the guys on trial for the Wynn casino fraud found not guilty across the board bad look for the feds. So do these guys cutt up the 40 million from Wynn on TV now.

They should march down to the Gemini and cut up a chuck of cash and invite Howie Carr to cover it....

just weird case after the feds told wynn about it and indicted the guys wynn reneged the price from 75 million to 35mill. and he still purchised the land. so the feds save him 40mill, this is all screwed up.

Watching fox news the fbi confirmed today tht was that night club owner disalvo found in providence so i dont know what happens next. Slemmi is free his son who did the murder is dead so idk.

DiSarro*

I mean, who they gonna pin this on? Salemmme already did time for this while pleading guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice and was sentenced to five years in prison and his kid is dead who most say did the actaully murder.

Obviously, Bobby DeLuca didn't drop this dime or the body would have been dug up years ago, it came from the buildings owner who was pinched for drugs a child hood friend of DeLuca.

The whole thing smells as Flemmi claims he walked it on the murder while Rosetti and Darin Bufalino watched along with Frank. That' quite a crowd to keep the whole thing a secret. I would have thought Rosetti or Bufalino could have used that information to help themselves.

I've been wondering the same thing. I'm guessing the property owner knew something. I'm shocked Deluca or Rossetti didn't say anything.

This story hits close to home for me, I was living in downtown Boston from 89-92 and use to go into the Channel (at the time it had changed it's name and was a strip club which for the life of me I can't remember it's name). I saw many characters in there as I was there a few nights a week.

I remember the 1st time I laid my eyes on Salemme. He made a big entrance with a whole crew of guys and guy sitting next to me at the bar said he was the head of the local "mob". Salemme continued to "hold court" with two others guys and a gaggle of strippers in a large circular booth, gold chain, silk shirt, not a care in the world. After that night I saw him and his kid in there a lot, I even pissed next to Frank one night in the adjacent urinal...lol...