Anthony (Spucky) Spagnolo has been identified by the feds as the acting boss of the New England mafia in an indictment handed down today.
He was charged with extorting protection payments from local social clubs and a video poker machine company. According to the feds Spagnolo ordered fellow New England mobster Pryce (Stretch) Quintina to collect monthly payments from the owners of Constitution Vending Co. a video poker machines company.
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Both Spagnolo and Quintina have been arrested on a single count of conspiring to interfere with commerce through extortion. It is not the first time that Spucky has had trouble with the feds having pleaded guilty to extortion, racketeering, and drug charges back in 1990. He refused to admit that he was in the Mafia then but according to the FBI he was in a house back in 1989 in which a Patriarca crime family induction ceremony took place and was recorded.
He was part of 21 alleged members of the Patriarca family or New England La Cosa Nostra family which included the then alleged boss back in 1990.
New England mob once again showes its ability to survive and start up again after the arrests in last few years many thought they would collapse and this shows how still going
Sort of i guess.
But i really think all the families need to seriously re-think their role and modus operandi today.
I am not where you are getting at.The New York familys have modernised themselves and are billoen pound organizations.The other mobs Philly and New England i would agree that the business they are in like gambling are dying out because gambling is been leaglized in many places but for instance New York familys are in online gambling which the FBI belive earnings from all the New York familys online gambling operations is worth 100million a year
I think New Eng is in much worse shape then Philly is but they are def not defunct and done just yet. This indictment shows some kind of hierarchy remains and the family is trying to rebuild some after the last few years of really being hit hard by the feds.
Yearh New England mob is still going though its a bit of a mess going to take awhile to sort out.Phillys has alot of mobsters back on the streets so its got some more manpower but is still a bit of mess
Yes a lot of the older era guys back in Philly not sure that ends up being a good or bad thing down the line violence wise. I def think Philly has more working at the moment and def more of a structure then New England does at the moment. I agree with you its a big mess in New Eng and the feds haven’t stopped the assault.