The Boston mob is currently in disarray, ravished by convictions and defections and the current indictment of “old guard-types” Spagnolo and Quintina appears to be another nail in the syndicate’s coffin.
Since Luigi (Baby Shacks) Manocchio, the man that had stabilized the New England mafia at the beginning of the New Millennium in the wake of the power struggle that enveloped the Family in the late-1980s and early 1990s, retired in 2009 (he was swooped up and sent to jail on extortion charges in 2011), the syndicate has seen powerful capos Robert (Bobby the Cigar) DeLuca of Rhode Island and Mark Rosetti of East Boston join Team U.S.A and all three of Manocchio’s direct successors hit with racketeering indictments.
Law enforcement sources in the area tab Peter (The Crazy Horse) Limone the official Boss of the Patriarcas right now, having taken the reins from Manocchio five years ago and desiring a hands-off approach to leadership, assigning an “acting boss,” first Anthony DiNunzio until 2012 and then Spagnolo to look after day-to-day affairs on his behalf.
Limone, 80, was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1965 murder of Irish hoodlum Teddy Deegan, based on false information provided by Joe “The Animal” Barboza. Serving 33 years in prison for the crime, Limone was released in 2001 after his conviction was overturned, him and his co-defendants awarded 102 million dollars in damages. Pocketing a cool 26 million himself, he was nabbed on loansharking, extortion and sports gambling charges in 2010, pleading no contest and receiving five years of probation.
Following their bookings on their charges last week, Spagnolo and Quintina were both released on bond and fitted for ankle-bracelet monitors.
“I don’t know what it says about things in the Family these days that Spucky is the Boss,” questioned the former Fed. “I never took him to be Don-material. He’s a loyal soldier through-and-through, but for heading the whole ship, I don’t think he’s necessarily sharp enough or holds enough reverence to be the one that puts things back together.”
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