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gangland:Parrello planned revenge over his son - 08/25/16 12:26 PM
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Feds Have Tapes Of Patsy Plotting To Whack His Son's Alleged Killer
The feds may be preparing an Act Two for Genovese crime family capo Pasquale (Patsy) Parrello, the opera-loving owner of Pasquale's Rigoletto, the popular Arthur Avenue restaurant in the Belmont section of the Bronx.
Parrello, 72, was one of the biggest catches in the massive multi-year sting operation that resulted in racketeering conspiracy charges against 46 wiseguys and mob associates in five different crime families this month.
But Gang Land has learned that the feds also have obtained evidence linking Parrello to a plot to kill an Albanian gangster who allegedly murdered Parrello's son, Pasquale Jr., back in 1993.
Law enforcement sources say that Parrello and four crew members allegedly plotted to whack Victor Mirdita two years ago after one of Patsy's longtime cronies, Ronald (Ronny The Beast) Mastrovincenzo, learned that Mirdita was involved in a City Island restaurant and spotted him and his car at the location.
The sources say that the FBI has audio and video taped evidence that ties Parrello and three codefendants in the racketeering indictment, Israel (Buddy) Torres, 66, Anthony (Anthony Boy) Zinzi, 73, and Bradford Wedra, 61, to a conspiracy to kill Mirdita in the summer of 2014. Mastrovincenzo, a prime mover in the plot, died last year of natural causes.
Sources say that a turncoat named John (J.R.) Rubeo tape recorded several conversations with Parrello and at least one of the other suspects in the plot. Sources say Rubeo is the cooperating witness identified in court papers as CW-1 who wore a wire against Parrello and many others, including Philadelphia mob boss Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino, .
Knowledgeable sources say that a bug that the FBI placed in Pasquale's Rigoletto also picked up evidence about the plot, but this could not be independently verified. (Between 2011 and 2016, according to a government filing, the feds and Westchester District Attorney's office also tape recorded talks on 14 wiretapped phones, and more than 800 conversations made by Rubeo and a "primary" undercover agent, whom the gangsters knew as "Jeff," and who wore a wire for about two years.)
Mirdita, 46, was acquitted of the younger Parrello's slaying in a contentious 1995 murder trial in Bronx Supreme Court. He was found guilty of a related weapons possession charge, however, and sentenced to 5-to-15 years. He was behind bars for 10 years. He was released in 2003.
Sources told Gang Land that the FBI squad that ran the four-and-a-half-year long investigation took the alleged plot "very seriously," and alerted Mirdita that his life was in danger.
"Agents visited him and warned him that they learned there was a contract out on his life," said one law enforcement source. "They didn't tell him who was behind it, but he's been looking over his shoulder for years and he knew what it was all about. He made himself scarce."
The sources say the warning, coupled with instructions that Rubeo got from his FBI handlers to try and dissuade Parrello from going ahead with the plan, seemed to lead to the result the FBI wanted to achieve, since the chatter about the plot, which lasted about two weeks, ended soon after.
As Gang Land reported two weeks ago, Rubeo, 40, who hails from Yonkers and who relocated to Florida several years ago, flipped in late 2011, several months after he was jammed up by the Westchester DA's office about a beating that was picked up on a wiretap.
While that is accurate, law enforcement and other sources say the event that triggered Rubeo's decision to cooperate was an arrest by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for possession and distribution of large quantities of cocaine and marijuana.
Sources said Rubeo, who had spent no time behind bars in his first 35 years, "didn't want to go to prison for 20 years" and quickly decided to cooperate.
The younger Parrello was killed on April 23, 1993. The prevailing wisdom is that he was killed by Albanian gangsters aligned with John Gotti's Bronx-based consigliere Frank (Frankie Loc) Locascio in retaliation for an embarrassing "slap-in-the-face" reprimand Parrello gave Locascio's son Tore in late 1992 or early 1993 when he became loud and boisterous in Pasquale's Rigoletto.
Following his release from state prison in 2003, Mirdita steered clear of Arthur Avenue but he was not a shrinking violet about his acquittal for the younger Parrello's murder.
In a lawsuit seeking damages for serious injuries he suffered in an assault by an inmate while he was awaiting trial in a special unit at Rikers Island, Mirdita claimed that "prison authorities were on notice" that he was "subject to reprisal because he allegedly murdered the son of an organized crime figure" and were negligent in not protecting him from his assailant.
Jurors disagreed with him, however. They ruled in favor of the city, which presented evidence that Mirdita was "intensely supervised" and wore a "bullet proof vest" and was accompanied by "armed correction officers" whenever he was moved, and contended that there was no evidence that his attacker had any connections to Parrello.
Lawyers for Torres and Wedra, did not return calls for comment regarding their clients' alleged role in a murder conspiracy against Mirdita. "I am unaware of any evidence of any such plot or any conspiracy along those lines," said Parrello's attorney, Kevin Faga. Vinci's lawyer, Alan Haber said he would have "no comment" until he gets the government's discovery in the case.
A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S Attorney's office declined to say why no charges regarding the 2014 plot against Mirdita were filed against any of the suspects, or whether they would be part of a superseding indictment in the future. A spokesman for the FBI was also mum about the matter.
If the government does decide to lodge murder conspiracy or other charges related to the alleged plot to whack Mirdita, it is very unlikely that they would do so until next year, at the earliest.
On Tuesday, during a pro-forma pre-trial session that all 44 arrested defendants, their lawyers, and prosecutors had with Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Sullivan, it was disclosed that it will take at least 90 days for the government to turn over the voluminous "discovery material" to the defendants.
The first batch — prosecutors say it will include all "consensual" recordings by Rubeo and the undercover agent and all the wiretapped conversations, as well as all the paper work that was generated to obtain the wiretaps and search warrants in the case — is due by October 31.
Most defendants, except for Parrello, Vinci and the others who are detained or serving prison terms for other crimes, wore smiles before the session as they milled around with lawyers and relatives in a crowded anteroom until five minutes before court officials opened the doors and let them in, as well as after the session when it ended and they filed out.
The proceeding, which lasted about an hour, was essentially a "get to know you" event at which Sullivan, in a pleasant and courteous, but no-nonsense tone, introduced himself to every defendant, one at a time, often asking if he had pronounced their names correctly, and always beginning his conversation with "Good morning."
Sullivan, and the entire courtroom — even the incarcerated defendants who were lumped together in the jury box, along with a sizable contingent of deputy marshals — laughed out loud during the Judge's exchange with one of the defendants, whose name, you may remember having seen in the fifth paragraph above.
"Good morning Mr. Wedra," said Sullivan.
"It is a good morning, judge," replied Wedra. "Make it a great one and dismiss the case."