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Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by JohnnyS » Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:43 am

Aunt+Baby wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:36 am
JohnnyS wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:47 am
Aunt+Baby wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:33 am
JohnnyS wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:49 am
CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am
JohnnyS wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.
Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
They were locked up at Fort Dix together. Muscarella had a serious beef with Colombo associate Vincent Posa. Fusco saw them getting into in the yard and he stepped in and beat the guy up for Ernie. Fusco complained that the Springfield crew weren't giving his family enough money while he was away so Muscarella sent a message to Artie Nigro demanding that the payments are increased. Muscarella planned on bringing Fusco to NYC and wanted him to be part of his crew after they were released.
Where did this info come from?
Nigro and Fusco's trials.
Where can those be located for perused?
Unfortunately I can't upload the files.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by Aunt+Baby » Mon Jun 16, 2025 5:36 am

JohnnyS wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:47 am
Aunt+Baby wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:33 am
JohnnyS wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:49 am
CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am
JohnnyS wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.
Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
They were locked up at Fort Dix together. Muscarella had a serious beef with Colombo associate Vincent Posa. Fusco saw them getting into in the yard and he stepped in and beat the guy up for Ernie. Fusco complained that the Springfield crew weren't giving his family enough money while he was away so Muscarella sent a message to Artie Nigro demanding that the payments are increased. Muscarella planned on bringing Fusco to NYC and wanted him to be part of his crew after they were released.
Where did this info come from?
Nigro and Fusco's trials.
Where can those be located for perused?

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by JohnnyS » Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:47 am

Aunt+Baby wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:33 am
JohnnyS wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:49 am
CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am
JohnnyS wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.
Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
They were locked up at Fort Dix together. Muscarella had a serious beef with Colombo associate Vincent Posa. Fusco saw them getting into in the yard and he stepped in and beat the guy up for Ernie. Fusco complained that the Springfield crew weren't giving his family enough money while he was away so Muscarella sent a message to Artie Nigro demanding that the payments are increased. Muscarella planned on bringing Fusco to NYC and wanted him to be part of his crew after they were released.
Where did this info come from?
Nigro and Fusco's trials.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by Aunt+Baby » Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:33 am

JohnnyS wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:49 am
CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am
JohnnyS wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.
Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
They were locked up at Fort Dix together. Muscarella had a serious beef with Colombo associate Vincent Posa. Fusco saw them getting into in the yard and he stepped in and beat the guy up for Ernie. Fusco complained that the Springfield crew weren't giving his family enough money while he was away so Muscarella sent a message to Artie Nigro demanding that the payments are increased. Muscarella planned on bringing Fusco to NYC and wanted him to be part of his crew after they were released.
Where did this info come from?

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by davidf1989 » Mon Jun 16, 2025 1:34 am

was Louis Santos a mob associate or a made member? I think that Frankie Roche agreed to shoot him according to this article https://www.masslive.com/news/2012/03/l ... s_san.html

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by OcSleeper » Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:57 am

davidf1989 wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:23 am Thanks for the information and is Jimmy Santaniello an influential player in Springfield? This article mentions that he had dealings with Bruno, Arrilotta, and Bologna/ https://www.masslive.com/news/2015/12/p ... iello.html
Jimmy Santaniello is a local wealthy businessman who's has been extorted by the crew for forever. He's the nephew of Mario Fiore and has been an informant for decades.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by JohnnyS » Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:49 am

CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am
JohnnyS wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.
Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
They were locked up at Fort Dix together. Muscarella had a serious beef with Colombo associate Vincent Posa. Fusco saw them getting into in the yard and he stepped in and beat the guy up for Ernie. Fusco complained that the Springfield crew weren't giving his family enough money while he was away so Muscarella sent a message to Artie Nigro demanding that the payments are increased. Muscarella planned on bringing Fusco to NYC and wanted him to be part of his crew after they were released.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by davidf1989 » Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:23 am

chin_gigante wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:20 am
CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
...
what is the story about john bolgna? Are there two capos there? tranghese and arilottta?

Is the bruno position a capo or just a soldier that runs that area?
Muscarella and Fusco were in Fort Dix together.

Bologna was a Gambino associate who then went with Artie Nigro. He was an FBI informant during that time, and Nigro was repeatedly warned that Bologna was no good but kept him around for some reason. He was involved in the attempted murder of Frank Dadabo and the Bruno murder. When he flipped he held back info on the Dadabo shooting and got exposed when Arillotta flipped. He died in prison.

Bruno was the captain in Springfield. The plan was to take Bruno down and make Tranghese the captain while keeping Arillotta as the one really running things in the background as a soldier reporting direct to the administration. Then Bruno got killed and it's unclear what exactly happened / who the captain position went to (if anyone).

There's also Carlo Mastrototaro in Worcester. He was a member of the Springfield crew but by 1989 he had become a captain in his own right. So there were at least two Genovese crews in the area: Springfield and Worcester.

Thanks for the information and is Jimmy Santaniello an influential player in Springfield? This article mentions that he had dealings with Bruno, Arrilotta, and Bologna/ https://www.masslive.com/news/2015/12/p ... iello.html

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by chin_gigante » Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:20 am

CornerBoy wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?
...
what is the story about john bolgna? Are there two capos there? tranghese and arilottta?

Is the bruno position a capo or just a soldier that runs that area?
Muscarella and Fusco were in Fort Dix together.

Bologna was a Gambino associate who then went with Artie Nigro. He was an FBI informant during that time, and Nigro was repeatedly warned that Bologna was no good but kept him around for some reason. He was involved in the attempted murder of Frank Dadabo and the Bruno murder. When he flipped he held back info on the Dadabo shooting and got exposed when Arillotta flipped. He died in prison.

Bruno was the captain in Springfield. The plan was to take Bruno down and make Tranghese the captain while keeping Arillotta as the one really running things in the background as a soldier reporting direct to the administration. Then Bruno got killed and it's unclear what exactly happened / who the captain position went to (if anyone).

There's also Carlo Mastrototaro in Worcester. He was a member of the Springfield crew but by 1989 he had become a captain in his own right. So there were at least two Genovese crews in the area: Springfield and Worcester.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by CornerBoy » Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:18 am

ALL THAT ABOVE SHIT ASIDE, THE BOOK DID REALLY GET ME INTERESTED IN CONNECTICUT MOB ACTIVITIES.

IS THE HUB HARTFORD? STAMFORD? NEW HAVEN?

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by CornerBoy » Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:15 am

JohnnyS wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.
Ernie bothered with someone so low down on the totem pole?

READ A LOT OF THE NEW SPRINGFIELD BOOK (CITY BETRAYAL?) ON TWO FLIGHTS AND HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THEEY ARE TALKING ABOUT

i dont understand why they even bother with springfield. its not the nicest place in the world.

i dont even know where to begin asking questions.

what is the story about john bolgna? Are there two capos there? tranghese and arilottta?

Is the bruno position a capo or just a soldier that runs that area?

i almost gave up b.c all the names got so confusing.

IS IT ME OR WAS THAT BOOK WRITTEN TERRIBLY?

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by JohnnyS » Thu Sep 12, 2024 11:48 am

Fusco had the backing of Ernie Muscarella.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by JoePuzzles234 » Thu Sep 12, 2024 10:03 am

chin_gigante wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:06 am
JoePuzzles234 wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:38 am It's an okay read but the topic I was hoping to see covered (Tranghese as Springfield's captain) is pretty much non-existent.
Thought you'd find this interesting. It's from Tranghese's sentencing memorandum.

I'm interested in whether Tranghese ever actually became the captain officially. Arillotta says that was the plan, and when he was first indicted in the Bruno case Tranghese was listed as a capo, but the sentencing memorandum only refers to him as a soldier.

If Tranghese ever did get the position he'd only have held it for a few years before being shelved.
Your previous posts about Tranghese are actually what made me pick up the book to see if there were more details about the whole situation. My personal take is that he was briefly the local captain but demoted prior to being shelved in 2006, since we hear about Pugliano being approached to take over in 2005 already.

Some interesting details from Parisi's book is that apparently both Geas brothers were involved in the construction site assault/shelving - Stephanie Barry's reporting notes that it was a "gang led by Freddy" so it could possibly be an error since Ty had been arrested the previous year and seems to still have been incarcerated at that time.

Emilio Fusco is also described as running the crew while Arillotta was locked up:
Meanwhile, Emilio Fusco assumed control over several Genovese family rackets in Springfield and, with Arillotta's approval, halted the flow of money from those rackets to the New York bosses.
He doesn't seem to have ever been identified as any sort of formal leader but it might be something to keep in mind.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by mike68 » Thu Sep 12, 2024 9:34 am

davidf1989 wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:19 pm So was Bologna the Springfield version of Bulger? As mentioned in this article about Nigro https://www.masslive.com/news/2015/12/i ... als_i.html
Absolutely not. The only thing they had in common was on informing. Bulger was informing while he was a boss. Bologna was far from a boss.

Re: Springfield Genovese chart, May 2004

by chin_gigante » Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:06 am

JoePuzzles234 wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:38 am It's an okay read but the topic I was hoping to see covered (Tranghese as Springfield's captain) is pretty much non-existent.
Thought you'd find this interesting. It's from Tranghese's sentencing memorandum.

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I'm interested in whether Tranghese ever actually became the captain officially. Arillotta says that was the plan, and when he was first indicted in the Bruno case Tranghese was listed as a capo, but the sentencing memorandum only refers to him as a soldier.

If Tranghese ever did get the position he'd only have held it for a few years before being shelved.

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