Louis Filippelli is a nephew of Squitieri and Squitieri is married to Sisca's sister.
Both Filippelli and Sisca, coincidentally, were on a ruling panel after Squitieri took over from Peter Gotti as acting boss.
At one point during the operation, the undercover agent gave flat-screen televisions to Mr. Squitieri and to Mr. DePalma, saying they were stolen, a law enforcement official recounted. One evening Mr. Squitieri was watching an episode of "The Sopranos." In it, a mobster was watching his own stolen flat-screen set when his parole officer visited and promptly arrested him for possessing stolen property.
That episode made Mr. Squitieri, who was himself on supervised release, nervous about the gift, the law enforcement official said. He got rid of the set, the official said, concerned that this "could be life imitating art."
