Ron Previte dead

Dave Schratweiser is reporting Ron Previte, the cop-turned gangster-turned informant who got Merlino et al put away in 2000, died Monday. Would have been in his mid-70s, I would guess.

He's in the second segment of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrknGiJOck

He's like 400 pounds. Surprised he lived that long...lard ass rat.

Ill be honest i actually liked Ron.Because he was by far the most honest Rat of them all.All guys who become rats usually say i believed in the life and then my friends turned on me while i was in prison and thats when i decided to cooperate.Ron actually says he didnt give a fuck about the life or the people in it he only was in lcn for the money.He actually admitted that before he was an FBI informant he was a police informant and not because he was facing any jail time but because they offered him afew hundred dollars,even at the time he was making 1000s a week.He is a guy who doesnt give a fuck what people think of him and thats rare in todays world.

In his last interview, he was talking all kinds of smack like, They know where I am, they can come down anytime.

I am surprised he lived that long. How old was he?
Also surprised "Big Joey" is still going strong.....Maybe Joey had the surgery and has a sportsbook in NYC and he is operating incognito.

Think he was 66 years old when he passed.

Still dont believe he was ever a inducted member. He claims stanfa just said now your with us merlino and all the other guys stanfa made had the ceromony. Theres no way all the guys in philly just forgot previte was a cop for awhile in philly. Think he said like 5 or more yrs.

Merlino apparently knew or knew enough never to say anything pertinent around Previte that would hurt him. Maybe if I recall, the one thing that they did together was stolen goods from Philly docks.

He was probably made by Stanfa, the same guy who also made two enemies in Merlino and Mike Chang along with half Italian junkie John Veasey.

That guy would do and say anything to get what he wanted.

I know many like the way Nick Caramandi talks " but they are cut from the same cloth. Both are con men and did well .

Nick C doing better because of Scarfo , but they are what there are.

Previte was so desperate he would carry a picture of him and Stanfa everywhere he went !! This is how he did his extortion rackets.


He would find guys with a small book in there town and wait around till Saturday or Sunday when his guy would be taking bets on the pay phone and walk up to him or them and pull out the picture of him and Stanfa and say you owe us 10G and you have a week to pay up and that was just the past money .

Then he would extort his share of your book depending on how big of course.

He did this a lot " he ran into a couple people that were connected and almost had big problems " but he was quick to back down if he fucked with a made guys associates .

Pmac is right" I don't think he was made " I think he was just told something to make his mind happy.

But if you have to carry a picture everywhere you go to do your bidding you don't have long !

Interesting, thanks Serp!

I know he was ALWAYS about the money.

I can't remember what documentary or film it was but it was somewhat recent and the guy admitted on air he was still an active bookmaker , he might of even said I will take your action to the interviewer, tho I could be wrong on that part .

Know nothing about him and I'm sure he was quite the earner that he said but what rat admits on air he is still an active criminal . What a joke , tho he did seem funny lol , discussions with him and Joey must have been hilarious

It was the Trevor Macdonald series.

Wait a second...I always thought they had Ron Previtite as a capo at the end. He was a made member. You saying he never made the ceremony with sword and gun and pricked finger??? WTF! That is news to me.

Lol...that makes Skinny Joey and the Philly mob somehow look worse.

As if Veasey and Junior Gotti are the only high profile mobsters who aren't of 100% Italian lineage.

I remember the book by Donald "Tony The Greek" Frankos. He said there was a Columbo family captain who was half Polish.

Tommy Del in Philly half polish. Jimmy Marcelo in Chicago half Irish. Junior Gotti half a douche bag. The list goes on and on...

ryan
we argued once before..so we will know i argue again..i disagree...junior gotti...is all douchebag..haha

Haha! I agree with you. He's 100% douchebag. I was just trying to be nice. He's a blinky, twitchy and irritating guy. I picture Junior Gotti at a sit down and Genovese mobsters smirking and looking at each other trying to not snicker. Junior is oblivious to the scorn.

Start a new thread: Biggest Doucebags who were made men. I'm guessing Junior Gotti and Bill Bonanno would be neck and neck for #1. I would vote for Bill Bonanno.

I'd say there's a lot more. Who would ever need to know if such and such had a German great grandfather.

Did the mob have private detectives or google at their fingertips in the 50's and 60's?

There was that old guy from genovese george barone who called himself a mutt on the stand he said my dads italian my moms german and Hungarian or some shit. He said no one asked he said he was made and proposed by fat tony in 1974 same yr fish cafaro was made. Puts to rest the books were closed. Gambino was alive n well in 74.

Sounds like a guy who believes he's got a free ride with the feds !!

I am not a gangster so I don't care if he ratted on the mob. And after all, they knew he was a former cop, they should have been careful with him, they just wanted his money. But I don't like Previte because of something I read in his book. It says that he caught a guy molesting a kid, and took a $40000 bribe not to press charges. He did call the boy's mother and tell her what her brother did to the boy, but who knows if the creep went on to harm another child? Taking money from a bookmaker or guys running a card game is one thing, who cares about that? But what Previte did was evil, and he should have done time for it.

Never liked him. I do like his side where he admits he only cared about the money but still he's a class-A douche. And he was never made, forget about it. Stanfa was fucking with him.

Does anyone think that his death has anything to do with the supposed indictments coming down on Philly? I don't know how he died, like he gave a deathbed confession.