Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
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SonnyBlackstein
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Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
Thanks in advance .
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Been wondering who would ask first
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Déjà Vu For Joey Glasses: Guilty Of Talking To A Wired-Up Snitch
Joseph DatelloGang Land Exclusive!Luchese wiseguy Joseph (Joey Glasses) Datello had more than a few good reasons to want to deliver some payback to his old partner-in-mob-construction-scams back in the late 1990s.
For starters, there was the cold December 1999 night that Sean Richard concealed a tape recorder under a bandage on his left arm and recorded him and Luchese underboss Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea talking about the cash they were making from bid-rigging and extortion schemes in construction projects in New York.
And then there was the $200,000 debt to Crea that his former partner in crime stuck him with when he flipped. And then there was the topper — how Richard called the 6-foot, 5-inch Joey Glasses "a big idiot, like Frankenstein," when he boasted to the New York Times about his undercover exploits against Datello, Crea and 36 others.
So it's no surprise that when Datello got a tip about where Richard was living in October of 2016, he set out to kill him.
As Joey Glasses told another pal last year, he drove all the way to where Richard was allegedly living in New Hampshire. There, he waited in vain for five hours for "my rat" to show up so he could kill him. "If I had seen him, it would have been a different story," he said.
Steven CreaUnfortunately, partially proving one of Richard's points, the person Datello blabbed to about his failed hit was yet another wired-up snitch. Which is why, just like he did many years ago, Datello, 67, was back in front of a judge on Monday copping a plea deal rather than going to trial.
This time, however, he faces a much longer stretch behind bars than the three years he did for labor racketeering back in 2003. Datello, who pleaded guilty in White Plains Federal Court to racketeering charges including attempted murder, drug dealing and extortion, faces a possible life sentence and a recommended prison term between 14 and 17 and a half years.
Datello will be pushing 80 when he gets out of prison — even the low end of his guidelines keeps him behind bars until he's 78. Still, based on just a few snippets that Gang Land has obtained of taped talks he had with the mob turncoat, he would've faced an uphill fight if he'd chosen to go to trial.
"I'm trying to find my rat but I can't," Datello told informer Robert Spinelli in February of last year, according to an FBI report obtained by Gang Land. "I found him, I thought I found him, but I didn't find him," said Datello. "He's in New Hampshire, but not at the address they gave me," Datello continued. "I didn't see my rat. I went to the address, I waited outside, I waited maybe he'd come out, I don't know if he's in there, not in there."
Robert SpinelliThe house Joey Glasses went to, according to another FBI report, was on Blodget Street in Manchester, the largest city in the Granite State.
"I can't sleep at night. It's all I think about," Datello told Spinelli, who began cooperating in 2012 and wore a wire until last year. "The street name they gave me wasn't the (correct) street name," he said. "He's in that area, but I don't know where. It's an area which will be tough to get out of."
In a taped talk in March of last year, under prodding by Spinelli, who also taped Joey Glasses agreeing to take part in multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine into the U.S., Datello recounted his failure to get Richard the last time but stressed that he has "not let it die. I'll just let it wait."
"I may be seventy by the time I go up there and do it, but I'm gonna get him, eventually," said Datello. "I'm gonna kill him," he assured Spinelli, stating that he would "like to get him with a rifle, but the houses are so close together."
"If you would have got him that day, what would have happened?" asked Spinelli. "I would have got him," said Datello. "I didn't care. Once I found out where he was, you know. But I really didn't find out because I didn't see him."
John RiggiFederal authorities and Datello's lawyer declined to discuss whether the FBI sent Datello on a wild goose chase in a sting operation by planting false information with him about Richard's whereabouts, but Joey Glasses raised the issue himself in response to a query from Spinelli.
"It's weird how I got him," said Datello. "I don't know if the FBI is setting me up or who's setting me up," he told Spinelli, explaining that someone had contacted his daughter through her FaceBook page and told her that Richard was "living in New Hampshire" and gave her his new "name, address, everything."
"I called the girl," asked her if it was true, and she replied, "Yes, yes, yes, he lives at such and such an address," Datello said. "I says, 'Why?' She says, 'I don't care what you do to him, I hate him.' I says alright,'" stating that he thought the woman may have been "a prostitute" that he "got involved with."
A tip about Richard's new name and address through his daughter's FaceBook page sounds far-fetched but on the other hand, Richard has an excellent past record of getting people pissed off at him. For instance, Richard told the Times he dumped his wife, the daughter of the late DeCavalcante mob boss John Riggi, for a stripper he fell in love with in 1999.
Christopher LondonioBut there's little doubt that Spinelli and the FBI agents used a clever scam to get Datello to talk about his 2016 effort to whack Richard, and his intention to kill him no matter how long it took.
They did it by coming up with a cockamamie story that Spinelli had found out where Dino Basciano, the cooperating witness who had testified against him was living and wanted to get permission from Crea to kill him.
Spinelli put the plan in motion on February 12 of last year, by telling Datello that "Pete," a trucker they'd been using to haul untaxed cigarettes up to New York — an undercover FBI agent Spinelli had introduced to Datello three years earlier — had found "his rat . . . for him," according to an FBI report.
"He has a Christmas tree farm in upstate New York. Pete found a lot of information on FaceBook in 90 minutes," said Spinelli, telling Datello that he "took a ride up there" and wants him "to put it on record with the guys in the Bronx" because he wants to kill him, the report said.
"I want Stevie to know I'm going to do this," Spinelli said.
Terrence CaldwellThe following week, Datello told Spinelli to "calm down" about "the thing you told me because he (Crea) wasn't receptive to it" because "it's a federal informant." Datello told Spinelli that even though Sean Richard had "hurt" Crea, Joey Glasses had been told not to retaliate. "They told me," said Datello: "Federal informant: Don't fuck with him. They ruined your life once. Are they going to ruin it again?"
But if Spinelli decided to whack Basciano, "I'll go with you," Datello said. "I know it really bothers you because it really bothers me," he said, adding that even though he couldn't see or drive, "I'll go with you."
Spinelli probably seemed a likely recruit for the rubout. Years before he became an informant, he took part in one of the low points of the American mob — the attempted murder of a Brooklyn mother of three whose brother had flipped.
Datello, however, waved him off. Stevie Wonder had ordered him to steer clear of retaliating against informants, said Datello, "I'm not doing anything (regarding Sean Richard) that leads straight to him (Crea)."
Steven Crea Jr"He (Stevie) said forget about it, just forget about it," Datello told Spinelli on March 22 in the last conversation the duo had about killing their respective cooperating witnesses.
Crea, his capo son, Stevie Junior, mobsters Matthew Madonna and Christopher Londonio, and associate Terrence Caldwell are slated for trial in March for the 2013 murder of former Purple Gang leader Michael Meldish. The murder case was severed from the original 19-defendant indictment.
Crea, 71, is also charged with the attempted murder of Richard, even though Datello told Spinelli more than once that Stevie Wonder didn't want him or Spinelli to retaliate against Richard or any other federal informer.
As for Richard, who testified at two trials, the last one in 2008, as he told New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers on September 8, 2000: ''The last thing anybody wants to be is a rat. But you know something? I'll be a rat and I won't be in prison. I'll be a rat and I'll be alive.''
Feds Sweep Up All Living Gangsters In 14-Defendant Luchese Family Case
Vincent BrunoComing just a week after mob associates Vincent Bruno and Carmine (Spanish Carmine) Garcia agreed to plea bargains rather than take their chances at trial, the guilty plea by Luchese soldier Joseph (Joey Glasses) Datello closes the book on the 14-defendant racketeering case that had been scheduled to begin next week before Judge Cathy Seibel.
The admissions of guilt by the 13 living defendants — wiseguy Dominic Truscello died two months ago at age 84 — is a nice win for prosecutors Hagan Scotten, Jacqueline Kelly and Scott Hartman. That's especially so for Kelly and Hartman, who were slammed for making erroneous claims about their evidence by defense lawyers, and who were criticized by Seibel for making several misleading "overstatements" to her in pretrial sessions.
Gerald McMahonLike Datello, Bruno, 34, pleaded guilty to attempted murder as part of a racketeering conspiracy with double digit sentencing guidelines. Bruno's victim was a rival mob associate who had dissed Stevie Wonder Crea during a dustup at a Luchese crime family social club in the Bronx that was invaded by Bonanno family gangsters in 2012.
Bruno's recommended prison term, according to the plea agreement that prosecutors worked out with attorney Gerald McMahon, is between 10 and 12 and a half years. But Bruno hopes to serve only between three and five years because much of his sentence (87 months) is expected to be concurrent to a seven year prison stretch for drug dealing he is now serving.
During his proceeding, assistant U.S. attorney Kelly stated that Bruno, 34, will be able to appeal his sentence as excessive if "the total period of imprisonment" for the two cases "exceeds the stipulated guidelines range of 121 to 151 months." That's because the drug dealing charges in his current case are the same as the ones for which he pleaded guilty in 2014.
Paul CassanoEven so, Bruno will undoubtedly receive more time than codefendant Paul (Paulie Roast Beef) Cassano got for his own plea deal, even though both men were part of the same failed hit. The two gangsters went to the mob associate's Bronx home "armed with a firearm with the intent to shoot and kill him," said Kelly, who added that the "plan was thwarted when the Bonanno associate did not answer the door and ultimately abandoned after a sit-down between the two crime families."
Back in February, prosecutors agreed to drop the attempted murder charges against Cassano if he pleaded guilty to assault charges with a maximum recommended prison term of 18 months. He also had to agree to forego a bail hearing at which his attorneys were prepared to cite the prosecutors for misconduct charges based on erroneous arguments they had made in pretrial hearings.
McMahon told Gang Land that Bruno had been offered the same deal back then but rejected it, intending to take his chances at trial. In court, the lawyer disputed Kelly's account of what "the government's evidence would show, but that his client, "for reasons which are best understood by Mr. Bruno and myself," has decided to plead guilty to the attempted murder charge.
Carmine GarciaA key factor for his client's change of heart, McMahon told Gang Land, was a recent Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that, unlike rulings in four other Circuit Courts, upheld the government's use of a weapons charge in the racketeering count that could lead to a life sentence upon conviction.
Garcia, 66, whose requests for a severance and for bail on the grounds that he has suffered two heart attacks since he was remanded 16 months ago were rejected by Seibel three weeks ago, copped a plea deal to minor drug and assault charges carrying a maximum of eight years in prison.
The sentencing guidelines for his crimes — the original indictment includes cocaine trafficking, money laundering, extortion and buttlegging charges — are more than 10 years, but since the statutory maximum of his guilty plea is eight years, that is longest stretch he can receive.
Garcia's attorney Marco LaRacca is expected to seek leniency for his client based on his severe heath issues, as his client's plea agreement permits.
The Mob Turncoat Who Couldn't Think Straight
Robert Spinelli Thanks to helpful coaching by several FBI agents, mob associate Robert Spinelli did pretty well during the six years he wore a wire against the Luchese crime family — resulting now in the conviction of Joey Glasses Datello and several others.
But there is undisputed proof that, left to his own devices, he has trouble finding his way home at night. To wit: Approximately a year before Spinelli agreed to wire up for the feds, he was a passenger in a pickup truck that was pulled over by police during a traffic stop in South Jersey.
Judge Cathy Seibel This was April 19, 2011, and Spinelli was four years out of federal prison for the attempted murder of the sister of a cooperating witness so presumably, he was still shy about dealing with law enforcement. Records obtained by Gang Land show Spinelli first tried to run away after a Brick Township cop stopped the vehicle.
He then turned and ran back into the truck and tried to drive it away. When that failed, he locked himself inside the truck. It is unclear what his plan was at that point, but when the cop had to break a window to get him out, he assaulted the officer who promptly arrested him.
The incident is less surprising considering the defense he used after he was convicted in 1999 of driving a getaway car in the 1992 ambush shooting of Patricia Capozzalo, whose brother, Luchese capo Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo, was providing devastating testimony against his former Mafia boss.
Prosecutors sought a guidelines sentence between 14 and 17 years for Spinelli. But his attorney sought leniency, citing her client's alleged IQ of 63 — a claim prosecutors didn't dispute. This level of intelligence is politely considered an "intellectual disability." He was really guilty, the lawyer said, of "hero worship" of his mobster brother, Baldy Mike Spinelli, who dragged him into the plot.
Peter ChiodoThe FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office, who still don't acknowledge that Spinelli is the cooperating witness who wore a wire from 2012 until last year, were mum about all things Spinelli. His Tom's River attorney didn't return calls yesterday.
But according to Ocean County NJ Superior Court records, following his arrest, Spinelli, a Brick Township resident, was behind bars for 40 days before he was released on $75,000 bail. He was later indicted for the assault, as well as for possession of drugs and a dangerous weapon — as cocaine and a five inch steak knife were found under his seat.
Sources say Spinelli began tape recording conversations for the FBI in November of 2012, while he was still awaiting trial on the local charges, and did so until early the following year, when he had to take a break to deal with the pending state case.
On February 11, 2013, Spinelli, 55, pleaded guilty to assaulting the police officer, Erik Olsen. He was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay fines and restitution totaling $1825. He also received three years probation. In a plea deal, prosecutors dropped the drugs and a dangerous weapon charges, as well as resisting arrest.
Michael MeldishGang Land's sources disagree about whether the feds intended to bring Spinelli back into the fold after he completed his local jail time. Some say yes, others say no. But the sources agree that nine months later, right after longtime Luchese associate Michael Meldish was shot to death in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, the FBI wired Spinelli up and sent him out to find out whatever he could about the slaying.
Sources say Spinelli never came up with "smoking gun" evidence about the gangland-style slaying. But in court filings, prosecutors sought permission to play several conversations about the hit to establish that the defendants, even though they were not charged with the murder, were all members of a violent enterprise that used murder as one of its tools. Thankfully, all Spinelli had to do was not turn off the listening device which he apparently managed not to do.
Joseph DatelloGang Land Exclusive!Luchese wiseguy Joseph (Joey Glasses) Datello had more than a few good reasons to want to deliver some payback to his old partner-in-mob-construction-scams back in the late 1990s.
For starters, there was the cold December 1999 night that Sean Richard concealed a tape recorder under a bandage on his left arm and recorded him and Luchese underboss Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea talking about the cash they were making from bid-rigging and extortion schemes in construction projects in New York.
And then there was the $200,000 debt to Crea that his former partner in crime stuck him with when he flipped. And then there was the topper — how Richard called the 6-foot, 5-inch Joey Glasses "a big idiot, like Frankenstein," when he boasted to the New York Times about his undercover exploits against Datello, Crea and 36 others.
So it's no surprise that when Datello got a tip about where Richard was living in October of 2016, he set out to kill him.
As Joey Glasses told another pal last year, he drove all the way to where Richard was allegedly living in New Hampshire. There, he waited in vain for five hours for "my rat" to show up so he could kill him. "If I had seen him, it would have been a different story," he said.
Steven CreaUnfortunately, partially proving one of Richard's points, the person Datello blabbed to about his failed hit was yet another wired-up snitch. Which is why, just like he did many years ago, Datello, 67, was back in front of a judge on Monday copping a plea deal rather than going to trial.
This time, however, he faces a much longer stretch behind bars than the three years he did for labor racketeering back in 2003. Datello, who pleaded guilty in White Plains Federal Court to racketeering charges including attempted murder, drug dealing and extortion, faces a possible life sentence and a recommended prison term between 14 and 17 and a half years.
Datello will be pushing 80 when he gets out of prison — even the low end of his guidelines keeps him behind bars until he's 78. Still, based on just a few snippets that Gang Land has obtained of taped talks he had with the mob turncoat, he would've faced an uphill fight if he'd chosen to go to trial.
"I'm trying to find my rat but I can't," Datello told informer Robert Spinelli in February of last year, according to an FBI report obtained by Gang Land. "I found him, I thought I found him, but I didn't find him," said Datello. "He's in New Hampshire, but not at the address they gave me," Datello continued. "I didn't see my rat. I went to the address, I waited outside, I waited maybe he'd come out, I don't know if he's in there, not in there."
Robert SpinelliThe house Joey Glasses went to, according to another FBI report, was on Blodget Street in Manchester, the largest city in the Granite State.
"I can't sleep at night. It's all I think about," Datello told Spinelli, who began cooperating in 2012 and wore a wire until last year. "The street name they gave me wasn't the (correct) street name," he said. "He's in that area, but I don't know where. It's an area which will be tough to get out of."
In a taped talk in March of last year, under prodding by Spinelli, who also taped Joey Glasses agreeing to take part in multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine into the U.S., Datello recounted his failure to get Richard the last time but stressed that he has "not let it die. I'll just let it wait."
"I may be seventy by the time I go up there and do it, but I'm gonna get him, eventually," said Datello. "I'm gonna kill him," he assured Spinelli, stating that he would "like to get him with a rifle, but the houses are so close together."
"If you would have got him that day, what would have happened?" asked Spinelli. "I would have got him," said Datello. "I didn't care. Once I found out where he was, you know. But I really didn't find out because I didn't see him."
John RiggiFederal authorities and Datello's lawyer declined to discuss whether the FBI sent Datello on a wild goose chase in a sting operation by planting false information with him about Richard's whereabouts, but Joey Glasses raised the issue himself in response to a query from Spinelli.
"It's weird how I got him," said Datello. "I don't know if the FBI is setting me up or who's setting me up," he told Spinelli, explaining that someone had contacted his daughter through her FaceBook page and told her that Richard was "living in New Hampshire" and gave her his new "name, address, everything."
"I called the girl," asked her if it was true, and she replied, "Yes, yes, yes, he lives at such and such an address," Datello said. "I says, 'Why?' She says, 'I don't care what you do to him, I hate him.' I says alright,'" stating that he thought the woman may have been "a prostitute" that he "got involved with."
A tip about Richard's new name and address through his daughter's FaceBook page sounds far-fetched but on the other hand, Richard has an excellent past record of getting people pissed off at him. For instance, Richard told the Times he dumped his wife, the daughter of the late DeCavalcante mob boss John Riggi, for a stripper he fell in love with in 1999.
Christopher LondonioBut there's little doubt that Spinelli and the FBI agents used a clever scam to get Datello to talk about his 2016 effort to whack Richard, and his intention to kill him no matter how long it took.
They did it by coming up with a cockamamie story that Spinelli had found out where Dino Basciano, the cooperating witness who had testified against him was living and wanted to get permission from Crea to kill him.
Spinelli put the plan in motion on February 12 of last year, by telling Datello that "Pete," a trucker they'd been using to haul untaxed cigarettes up to New York — an undercover FBI agent Spinelli had introduced to Datello three years earlier — had found "his rat . . . for him," according to an FBI report.
"He has a Christmas tree farm in upstate New York. Pete found a lot of information on FaceBook in 90 minutes," said Spinelli, telling Datello that he "took a ride up there" and wants him "to put it on record with the guys in the Bronx" because he wants to kill him, the report said.
"I want Stevie to know I'm going to do this," Spinelli said.
Terrence CaldwellThe following week, Datello told Spinelli to "calm down" about "the thing you told me because he (Crea) wasn't receptive to it" because "it's a federal informant." Datello told Spinelli that even though Sean Richard had "hurt" Crea, Joey Glasses had been told not to retaliate. "They told me," said Datello: "Federal informant: Don't fuck with him. They ruined your life once. Are they going to ruin it again?"
But if Spinelli decided to whack Basciano, "I'll go with you," Datello said. "I know it really bothers you because it really bothers me," he said, adding that even though he couldn't see or drive, "I'll go with you."
Spinelli probably seemed a likely recruit for the rubout. Years before he became an informant, he took part in one of the low points of the American mob — the attempted murder of a Brooklyn mother of three whose brother had flipped.
Datello, however, waved him off. Stevie Wonder had ordered him to steer clear of retaliating against informants, said Datello, "I'm not doing anything (regarding Sean Richard) that leads straight to him (Crea)."
Steven Crea Jr"He (Stevie) said forget about it, just forget about it," Datello told Spinelli on March 22 in the last conversation the duo had about killing their respective cooperating witnesses.
Crea, his capo son, Stevie Junior, mobsters Matthew Madonna and Christopher Londonio, and associate Terrence Caldwell are slated for trial in March for the 2013 murder of former Purple Gang leader Michael Meldish. The murder case was severed from the original 19-defendant indictment.
Crea, 71, is also charged with the attempted murder of Richard, even though Datello told Spinelli more than once that Stevie Wonder didn't want him or Spinelli to retaliate against Richard or any other federal informer.
As for Richard, who testified at two trials, the last one in 2008, as he told New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers on September 8, 2000: ''The last thing anybody wants to be is a rat. But you know something? I'll be a rat and I won't be in prison. I'll be a rat and I'll be alive.''
Feds Sweep Up All Living Gangsters In 14-Defendant Luchese Family Case
Vincent BrunoComing just a week after mob associates Vincent Bruno and Carmine (Spanish Carmine) Garcia agreed to plea bargains rather than take their chances at trial, the guilty plea by Luchese soldier Joseph (Joey Glasses) Datello closes the book on the 14-defendant racketeering case that had been scheduled to begin next week before Judge Cathy Seibel.
The admissions of guilt by the 13 living defendants — wiseguy Dominic Truscello died two months ago at age 84 — is a nice win for prosecutors Hagan Scotten, Jacqueline Kelly and Scott Hartman. That's especially so for Kelly and Hartman, who were slammed for making erroneous claims about their evidence by defense lawyers, and who were criticized by Seibel for making several misleading "overstatements" to her in pretrial sessions.
Gerald McMahonLike Datello, Bruno, 34, pleaded guilty to attempted murder as part of a racketeering conspiracy with double digit sentencing guidelines. Bruno's victim was a rival mob associate who had dissed Stevie Wonder Crea during a dustup at a Luchese crime family social club in the Bronx that was invaded by Bonanno family gangsters in 2012.
Bruno's recommended prison term, according to the plea agreement that prosecutors worked out with attorney Gerald McMahon, is between 10 and 12 and a half years. But Bruno hopes to serve only between three and five years because much of his sentence (87 months) is expected to be concurrent to a seven year prison stretch for drug dealing he is now serving.
During his proceeding, assistant U.S. attorney Kelly stated that Bruno, 34, will be able to appeal his sentence as excessive if "the total period of imprisonment" for the two cases "exceeds the stipulated guidelines range of 121 to 151 months." That's because the drug dealing charges in his current case are the same as the ones for which he pleaded guilty in 2014.
Paul CassanoEven so, Bruno will undoubtedly receive more time than codefendant Paul (Paulie Roast Beef) Cassano got for his own plea deal, even though both men were part of the same failed hit. The two gangsters went to the mob associate's Bronx home "armed with a firearm with the intent to shoot and kill him," said Kelly, who added that the "plan was thwarted when the Bonanno associate did not answer the door and ultimately abandoned after a sit-down between the two crime families."
Back in February, prosecutors agreed to drop the attempted murder charges against Cassano if he pleaded guilty to assault charges with a maximum recommended prison term of 18 months. He also had to agree to forego a bail hearing at which his attorneys were prepared to cite the prosecutors for misconduct charges based on erroneous arguments they had made in pretrial hearings.
McMahon told Gang Land that Bruno had been offered the same deal back then but rejected it, intending to take his chances at trial. In court, the lawyer disputed Kelly's account of what "the government's evidence would show, but that his client, "for reasons which are best understood by Mr. Bruno and myself," has decided to plead guilty to the attempted murder charge.
Carmine GarciaA key factor for his client's change of heart, McMahon told Gang Land, was a recent Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that, unlike rulings in four other Circuit Courts, upheld the government's use of a weapons charge in the racketeering count that could lead to a life sentence upon conviction.
Garcia, 66, whose requests for a severance and for bail on the grounds that he has suffered two heart attacks since he was remanded 16 months ago were rejected by Seibel three weeks ago, copped a plea deal to minor drug and assault charges carrying a maximum of eight years in prison.
The sentencing guidelines for his crimes — the original indictment includes cocaine trafficking, money laundering, extortion and buttlegging charges — are more than 10 years, but since the statutory maximum of his guilty plea is eight years, that is longest stretch he can receive.
Garcia's attorney Marco LaRacca is expected to seek leniency for his client based on his severe heath issues, as his client's plea agreement permits.
The Mob Turncoat Who Couldn't Think Straight
Robert Spinelli Thanks to helpful coaching by several FBI agents, mob associate Robert Spinelli did pretty well during the six years he wore a wire against the Luchese crime family — resulting now in the conviction of Joey Glasses Datello and several others.
But there is undisputed proof that, left to his own devices, he has trouble finding his way home at night. To wit: Approximately a year before Spinelli agreed to wire up for the feds, he was a passenger in a pickup truck that was pulled over by police during a traffic stop in South Jersey.
Judge Cathy Seibel This was April 19, 2011, and Spinelli was four years out of federal prison for the attempted murder of the sister of a cooperating witness so presumably, he was still shy about dealing with law enforcement. Records obtained by Gang Land show Spinelli first tried to run away after a Brick Township cop stopped the vehicle.
He then turned and ran back into the truck and tried to drive it away. When that failed, he locked himself inside the truck. It is unclear what his plan was at that point, but when the cop had to break a window to get him out, he assaulted the officer who promptly arrested him.
The incident is less surprising considering the defense he used after he was convicted in 1999 of driving a getaway car in the 1992 ambush shooting of Patricia Capozzalo, whose brother, Luchese capo Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo, was providing devastating testimony against his former Mafia boss.
Prosecutors sought a guidelines sentence between 14 and 17 years for Spinelli. But his attorney sought leniency, citing her client's alleged IQ of 63 — a claim prosecutors didn't dispute. This level of intelligence is politely considered an "intellectual disability." He was really guilty, the lawyer said, of "hero worship" of his mobster brother, Baldy Mike Spinelli, who dragged him into the plot.
Peter ChiodoThe FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office, who still don't acknowledge that Spinelli is the cooperating witness who wore a wire from 2012 until last year, were mum about all things Spinelli. His Tom's River attorney didn't return calls yesterday.
But according to Ocean County NJ Superior Court records, following his arrest, Spinelli, a Brick Township resident, was behind bars for 40 days before he was released on $75,000 bail. He was later indicted for the assault, as well as for possession of drugs and a dangerous weapon — as cocaine and a five inch steak knife were found under his seat.
Sources say Spinelli began tape recording conversations for the FBI in November of 2012, while he was still awaiting trial on the local charges, and did so until early the following year, when he had to take a break to deal with the pending state case.
On February 11, 2013, Spinelli, 55, pleaded guilty to assaulting the police officer, Erik Olsen. He was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay fines and restitution totaling $1825. He also received three years probation. In a plea deal, prosecutors dropped the drugs and a dangerous weapon charges, as well as resisting arrest.
Michael MeldishGang Land's sources disagree about whether the feds intended to bring Spinelli back into the fold after he completed his local jail time. Some say yes, others say no. But the sources agree that nine months later, right after longtime Luchese associate Michael Meldish was shot to death in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, the FBI wired Spinelli up and sent him out to find out whatever he could about the slaying.
Sources say Spinelli never came up with "smoking gun" evidence about the gangland-style slaying. But in court filings, prosecutors sought permission to play several conversations about the hit to establish that the defendants, even though they were not charged with the murder, were all members of a violent enterprise that used murder as one of its tools. Thankfully, all Spinelli had to do was not turn off the listening device which he apparently managed not to do.
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Thanks for postin gms. Idk how crea sr is bein charged with murder conspiracy of the informant in New Hampshire if it was made clear that he didn’t ok the hit. Cant wait for the trial.
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Thanks for the post 
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
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Pretty stupid for Datello to believe a random person on Facebook..
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Had no idea Spinelli lived at the shore in Brick. I have a few guys I know who are Brick Cops I’m gonna ask about that Spinelli traffic stop. Crazy....
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NJShore4Life
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Re: Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
Found some additional information on Spinelli’s arrest down at the shore in Brick with a quick Google search:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/brick/bric ... cccf16ee11
https://patch.com/new-jersey/brick/bric ... cccf16ee11
Re: Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
Are the DeCav’s functioning these days? Admin, Capos etc? In my early years of first diving in, I read all NY/NJ/Chicago books. When I dove into my areas, I haven’t kept up too much with NJ since Vinny Palermo. I know their longtime boss passed recently.
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Re: Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
Yes they are. Their consigliere, a capo, soldier were arrested in 2015. One of those indicted - Luigi ‘Dog’ Oliveri - had been inducted into the family very recently. The capo, Charles Stango, was on tape talking about the boss, underboss and another capo using code words - Milk, Horse and Big Head.
Re: Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
Joe Licata also mentioned how they had restructured, or something like that, during the recorded meeting with the Gambinos.gohnjotti wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:50 pmYes they are. Their consigliere, a capo, soldier were arrested in 2015. One of those indicted - Luigi ‘Dog’ Oliveri - had been inducted into the family very recently. The capo, Charles Stango, was on tape talking about the boss, underboss and another capo using code words - Milk, Horse and Big Head.
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NJShore4Life
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Re: Could someone kindly post this weeks GL.
DeCavs have a full admin and Capos. They’re very active in Elizabeth area (Union County) , Toms River area at the shore, and a little bit in the Newark area as well.