The recent arrest of Bobby DeLuca a former New England mafia capo that turned rat has revealed details of an extortion scheme run by top leaders of the Patriarca crime family.
According to court documents the mafia extortion scheme led by DeLuca and former mob boss Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio netted between $4000 and $6000 monthly from approx 2006-2011. The shakedown targeted local strip clubs including the Satin Doll and Cadillac Lounge in Rhode Island along with other adult entertainment businesses. According to the indictment also reported on by Scott Burnstein’s gangsterreport the Cosa Nostra family had their own people employed at these businesses to oversee the shakedowns and collections.
Robert “Bobby The Cigar” Deluca
The indictment contends that DeLuca was a buffer for Manocchio acting as his top captain relaying messages and orders to others inside the crime family. The newly unsealed 2011 indictment also revealed the roles of co-defendants Teddy Cardillo, Tommy Lafrate, and Richard Bonafiglia. Lafrate was employed as a bookkeeper for both the Satin Doll and Cadillac Lounge with Cardillo as manager and Bonafiglia the head bouncer at the Cadillac Lounge. Lafrate handled the cash putting aside $125 daily from both strip clubs along with cash from the assortment of sex shops that the mafia had a piece of and delivered it to DeLuca and Manocchio.
Things came to an end in 2011 when both DeLuca and Manocchio were arrested leading to plea deals for Baby Shacks, Cardillo, LaFrate, and Bonafiglia. DeLuca would choose a different route deciding to turn on his mob pals and join the witness protection program. The only problem was that when he turned rat he failed to mention his role in the mob hit on Stevie DiSarro. DiSarro was partners with former Patriarca family leader Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme in a South Boston nightclub named the Channel. According to the court documents DiSarro was killed by Salemme and his son Frank and DeLuca helped in the disposing of the body.
DiSarro’s body was recently unearthed behind a Providence Mill owned by Billy Ricci a former member of DeLuca’s old mafia crew. Ricci was busted in a drug conspiracy and decided to cooperate with the feds telling them that in 1993 DeLuca sent Cadillac Frank to his construction site with DiSarro’s corpse. He also agreed to let the feds dig up his property leading them to DiSarro’s remains. It was originally believed that it was DeLuca who had pointed the feds towards Ricci’s land as they searched for DiSarro’s body. Cadillac Frank has already pled guilty to lying about his role in the murder and Frank Jr died of aids back in 1995 leaving Deluca as the last to be punished in the DiSarro’s slaying. DeLuca was arrested down in Florida where he was living as part of the witness protection program.
Well hard not to think DeLuca the rat doesn’t have it coming and hopefully the feds and the court does not take it easy on him and he is prosecuted to the extent of the law esp since he lied even after he flipped and had a plea deal in hand.
Seems the extortion scheme they ran was quite profitable and infact a little more profitable then I would of imagined as it seemed to expand past the 2 clubs originally listed.
Yeah I knw rght…it really shocked me he flipped in the first place…ijs
That shocked a lot of people and then he was dumb enough to not make a deal that included any and all crimes he knew he did. What a mess I mean being a rat is bad enough.
he did not tell the truth i knew it as soon as he flipped guys should have been indicted on murder charges you dont make it to his age and that position and not be involved or have knowledge of murder
he was living in plain sight when he got out everyone knew where he was partly because it is changing times but i also think some of those guys are happy he did not tell the truth
anthony told nicky skins he was bringing in 50k month from shaking down strip clubs very profitable easy money aswell
I really didn’t think that operation would of been on quite that big a scale , it definitely was a solid money maker for the family.
Interesting that he “forgot” to mention that hit. No surprise that they came down harder on him after they found out he lied about it.
Right, he couldn’t of been crazy enough to think he would get away without them ever finding out. I think he figured if he could lie then by time they found out later they would look the other way not to make it an issue all over again and make themselves look bad.
Old school shake down operation…this won’t effect the slowly but steadily growing and reorganization of NE Mob aka patriarch family under The Cheese man Dinnuzio ….who is going be looking at doing time is the man that deserves it Bobby the rat Deluca….only a lying singing canary …
anthony told nicky skins he was bringing in 50k month from shaking down strip clubs very profitable easy money
that money seems like less than a mid sized pot grower would make
4000 a month ? jeez they could have gotten that from shaking down high school pot dealers