FBI informant told friend he and his brother would ‘take the whole city over’ while setting up alleged loanshark

[mafiastudent]

Got this story off FB from another poster but they referenced a different article I'll include link below. This is the original source.

Goes to show most informants have a vendetta or an ulterior motive.

FBI informant told friend he and his brother would ‘take the whole city over’ while setting up alleged loanshark

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/08/f ... shark.html

SPRINGFIELD — The use of informants is not novel for the FBI, but can be fraught with unexpected missteps.

Updated Aug 18, 6:03 PM; Posted Aug 18, 6:03 PM By Stephanie Barry | sbarry@repub.com

For example, the “confidential human source,” or CHS, in the pending federal loansharking prosecution against Springfield resident Anthony J. Scibelli, made the mistake of not turning off a body wire for more than a full day, according to court filings in U.S. District Court.

The recording picked up personal conversations the informant had with a female companion about alleged bootleg Percoset sales and plans to take out his street rivals.

Scibelli, 51, is charged with one count of collecting on an extortionate debt. He was arrested in July of 2019 after allegedly slapping around a gambler in debt to the local mob after the man was slow to make a $1,300 monthly payment on a $5,000 loan.

According to court records, the beating took place in the parking lot of the Mount Carmel Society parking lot a month earlier. Federal agents and Massachusetts State Police troopers spying on the meeting witnessed the encounter, which was orchestrated by law enforcement. The “scuffle” also was caught on audio and video and sampled in court records, referring to the debtor as “Victim 1.”

Scibelli: " … My (expletive)money. You (expletive). You understand me? Have it all on the (expletive) first.”

Victim 1: “OK, so you just slapped me like four times in the face, right? And you kicked my phone in the street.”

Scibelli: “Yeah, you want some more?”

Victim 1: “No I don’t want no more … You want any?”

Scibelli: “I’m right here you (expletive).”

Victim 1: “Anthony, you’re my good friend …”

However, Scibelli attorney Nikolas Andreopoulos has argued in court hearings and a recent motion for more information on witnesses in the case “Victim 1″ really isn’t a victim at all. The defense lawyer cited quoted excerpts from the unnamed witness picked up on the “hot mic” session while he was helping the feds build their case against Scibelli.

“The recordings were turned over to the defense and they reveal that ‘CHS’ was not the unsophisticated and helpless victim he purported to be but rather more devious in nature. The recordings clearly establish that ‘CHS’ was involved in the illegal selling of prescription pills and that law enforcement agents knew of the situation,” Andreopoulos’ motion reads.

“They had me… especially when they tell me, ‘Think hard about whatever you answer. Don’t (expletive) lie to us. We already heard the whole thing.’ Already, I know on that tape they had to hear somethin’ about the pills…” ‘CHS’ stated – “That’s really the only thing I do, is the pills, right?” the lawyer’s motion continues, quoting the informant unwittingly being recorded by his own body wire.

“It’s a good thing I built some kinda relationship with them over the last month, where they know me a little bit, or I woulda (expletive) (expletive) got f---ed,” the man continued. “You know how long you go away for a hundred pills? It’s not a joke ... you can’t play both sides ... you get caught.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Desroches declined to comment on the allegations in the defense motion following a hearing on Tuesday.

Andreopoulos argues he is entitled to information law enforcement has about “nefarious dealings” by Victim 1 and his track record working for the FBI and state police. The defense lawyer also argues the debtor was angling for Scibelli and others to whom he was in arrears, fantasizing about putting him “in the hospital for the rest of his life,” the motion reads.

“I was getting to the point where I was ready to murder couple people, actually shoot them in their heads, and I would have went to prison the rest of my life…I was targeting who I was going to get,” the informant says on the accidental recordings, according to the defense.

Andreopoulos once again argues that the debtor was not actually a victim, but much more “calculating,” and pulls more quotes from the hot mic.

CHS: “At the end of the day they’re all going to go to jail so I’ll have my revenge, then won’t I?”

Female: “Then what happens?”

CHS: “What do you mean then what happens? What are you talking about?”

Female: “Then what happens?”

CHS: “Then I take the whole city over with my brother and five other people.”

Previous court filings portray the yet-unnamed informant as a longtime fixture at the Mount Carmel Club in the city’s South End, ground zero for socializing among local associates of the New York-based Genovese crime family and more recently leaders of the Latin Kings street gang.

Two Springfield men were indicted in a widespread dragnet of alleged Latin King leaders — some of whom held meetings at the South End social club, according to FBI records connected to that case.

Michael Cecchetelli, of Springfield, is alleged to be the New England leader of the violent street gang and is charged with racketeering after coordinated raids in early December.

His uncle, David Cecchetelli, was his nephew’s roommate and caught a gun charge at the same time when federal agents found an unregistered gun near his bedside, according to the indictment. David Cecchetelli is not accused of affiliations with the Latin Kings but has deep-seated ties to Greater Springfield Genovese associates and was convicted on a bookmaking charge in the early 2000s. Cases against Michael and David Cecchetelli remain pending in U.S. District Court.

In addition to mining for more information about Victim 1′s credibility and alleged criminal activity, Andreopoulos is also seeking further details about Victim 1′s brother, whom the defense lawyer notes is a witness in Scibelli’s case and under federal indictment.

“CHS provides a material basis to believe that he and ‘witness #5′ (‘my brother') were involved in a criminal enterprise together at the very same time when the investigation in this case was taking place. Under this backdrop, the information sought concerning ‘witness #5′ becomes material and relevant given that he is currently being prosecuted by the Government and appears on their list of witnesses,’” his motion reads.

The government must respond to Andreopoulos’ motion by Aug. 21. A hearing on the matter is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni on Sept. 11.

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https://gangsterreport.com/court-record ... b-himself/

[mafiastudent]

I could actually tell you a story about Robert Spinelli kind of similar to this including a hot mic and a vendetta....but I might have mentioned that before...

[mafiastudent]

Or Gene Borello with how many times he's said on the Bozo Show how he became informant because he didn't feel loved anymore and used by his "boss"

[TwoPiece]

anyone got any idea if scibelli is made?

[mafiastudent]

This story gets more interesting. Came out earlier today:


https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/08/i ... dress.html

‘I don’t represent rats’: Attorney for Springfield mob associate asks for unusual redress

By Stephanie Barry | sbarry@repub.com
SPRINGFIELD — An attorney for a Springfield mob associate has made an unusual request of the federal government: Tell the public his client is not an informant.

In the charged world of organized crime, this is a particularly damaging label.

Springfield attorney Daniel Hagan on Wednesday filed a letter in the public docket of a pending extortion case against Anthony J. Scibelli on behalf of his own client, David Cecchetelli, identified as “witness #5.″

Cecchetelli, 52, is a defendant in an unrelated illegal gun possession case pending in U.S. District Court. He has historical ties to the local faction of the Genovese crime family and a previous bookmaking conviction.

“Placing in public filings, information which can be used to derive Mr. Cecchetelli’s identity, and where the context could lead the public to conclude that Mr. Cecchetelli is a government informant or cooperating government witness, these filings have the potential to subject Mr. Cecchetelli and his family to serious harm,” Hagan wrote in an Aug. 19 letter to federal prosecutors and Scibelli’s defense attorney.

“What is especially alarming here is that Mr. Cecchetelli is not a government informant or cooperating government witness and never has been,” the letter continues.

Scibelli, 51, was charged last year with collecting on a $5,000 extortionate debt. Investigators say Scibelli beat the unnamed informant in a parking lot in June of 2019, and threatened to pummel another of the informant’s relatives with his wife’s walker.

Scibelli has pleaded not guilty to the charge. His attorney, Nikolas Andreopoulos, has argued in court hearings and written pleadings that the alleged victim in the Scibelli case, “Victim 1,” was not a victim at all but a compulsive gambler who tired of paying local loan sharks. The alleged victim told investigators he paid up to $36,000 in interest but could never get out from under the debt.

He began wearing a body wire at the behest of the FBI and state police to several meetings with Scibelli over six weeks in the spring of 2019, according to court records. In one unfortunate instance, someone forgot to shut the microphone off and the informant wore a “hot mic” for more than 24 hours, lawyers have said during hearings and in court filings.

In a recent motion, Andreopoulos quoted the unnamed informant as saying he and his brother would take control of Springfield’s rackets once his rivals went to prison.

Hagan has lobbied the government to publicly confirm Cecchetelli is not the informant and is merely on its witness list as a coincidental bystander.

“I don’t represent rats. So if there was something to it, I wouldn’t be representing Mr. Cecchetelli,” Hagan said when contacted for comment.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston declined comment, citing the ongoing nature of the case.

Scibelli was released to house arrest after spending weeks behind bars in 2019. His pretrial restrictions have since been relaxed. No trial date has yet been set.

[Bklyn21]

Got this story off FB from another poster but they referenced a different article I'll include link below. This is the original source.

Goes to show most informants have a vendetta or an ulterior motive.

FBI informant told friend he and his brother would ‘take the whole city over’ while setting up alleged loanshark

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/08/f ... shark.html

SPRINGFIELD — The use of informants is not novel for the FBI, but can be fraught with unexpected missteps.

Updated Aug 18, 6:03 PM; Posted Aug 18, 6:03 PM By Stephanie Barry | sbarry@repub.com

For example, the “confidential human source,” or CHS, in the pending federal loansharking prosecution against Springfield resident Anthony J. Scibelli, made the mistake of not turning off a body wire for more than a full day, according to court filings in U.S. District Court.

The recording picked up personal conversations the informant had with a female companion about alleged bootleg Percoset sales and plans to take out his street rivals.

Scibelli, 51, is charged with one count of collecting on an extortionate debt. He was arrested in July of 2019 after allegedly slapping around a gambler in debt to the local mob after the man was slow to make a $1,300 monthly payment on a $5,000 loan.

According to court records, the beating took place in the parking lot of the Mount Carmel Society parking lot a month earlier. Federal agents and Massachusetts State Police troopers spying on the meeting witnessed the encounter, which was orchestrated by law enforcement. The “scuffle” also was caught on audio and video and sampled in court records, referring to the debtor as “Victim 1.”

Scibelli: " … My (expletive)money. You (expletive). You understand me? Have it all on the (expletive) first.”

Victim 1: “OK, so you just slapped me like four times in the face, right? And you kicked my phone in the street.”

Scibelli: “Yeah, you want some more?”

Victim 1: “No I don’t want no more … You want any?”

Scibelli: “I’m right here you (expletive).”

Victim 1: “Anthony, you’re my good friend …”

However, Scibelli attorney Nikolas Andreopoulos has argued in court hearings and a recent motion for more information on witnesses in the case “Victim 1″ really isn’t a victim at all. The defense lawyer cited quoted excerpts from the unnamed witness picked up on the “hot mic” session while he was helping the feds build their case against Scibelli.

“The recordings were turned over to the defense and they reveal that ‘CHS’ was not the unsophisticated and helpless victim he purported to be but rather more devious in nature. The recordings clearly establish that ‘CHS’ was involved in the illegal selling of prescription pills and that law enforcement agents knew of the situation,” Andreopoulos’ motion reads.

“They had me… especially when they tell me, ‘Think hard about whatever you answer. Don’t (expletive) lie to us. We already heard the whole thing.’ Already, I know on that tape they had to hear somethin’ about the pills…” ‘CHS’ stated – “That’s really the only thing I do, is the pills, right?” the lawyer’s motion continues, quoting the informant unwittingly being recorded by his own body wire.

“It’s a good thing I built some kinda relationship with them over the last month, where they know me a little bit, or I woulda (expletive) (expletive) got f---ed,” the man continued. “You know how long you go away for a hundred pills? It’s not a joke ... you can’t play both sides ... you get caught.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Desroches declined to comment on the allegations in the defense motion following a hearing on Tuesday.

Andreopoulos argues he is entitled to information law enforcement has about “nefarious dealings” by Victim 1 and his track record working for the FBI and state police. The defense lawyer also argues the debtor was angling for Scibelli and others to whom he was in arrears, fantasizing about putting him “in the hospital for the rest of his life,” the motion reads.

“I was getting to the point where I was ready to murder couple people, actually shoot them in their heads, and I would have went to prison the rest of my life…I was targeting who I was going to get,” the informant says on the accidental recordings, according to the defense.

Andreopoulos once again argues that the debtor was not actually a victim, but much more “calculating,” and pulls more quotes from the hot mic.

CHS: “At the end of the day they’re all going to go to jail so I’ll have my revenge, then won’t I?”

Female: “Then what happens?”

CHS: “What do you mean then what happens? What are you talking about?”

Female: “Then what happens?”

CHS: “Then I take the whole city over with my brother and five other people.”

Previous court filings portray the yet-unnamed informant as a longtime fixture at the Mount Carmel Club in the city’s South End, ground zero for socializing among local associates of the New York-based Genovese crime family and more recently leaders of the Latin Kings street gang.

Two Springfield men were indicted in a widespread dragnet of alleged Latin King leaders — some of whom held meetings at the South End social club, according to FBI records connected to that case.

Michael Cecchetelli, of Springfield, is alleged to be the New England leader of the violent street gang and is charged with racketeering after coordinated raids in early December.

His uncle, David Cecchetelli, was his nephew’s roommate and caught a gun charge at the same time when federal agents found an unregistered gun near his bedside, according to the indictment. David Cecchetelli is not accused of affiliations with the Latin Kings but has deep-seated ties to Greater Springfield Genovese associates and was convicted on a bookmaking charge in the early 2000s. Cases against Michael and David Cecchetelli remain pending in U.S. District Court.

In addition to mining for more information about Victim 1′s credibility and alleged criminal activity, Andreopoulos is also seeking further details about Victim 1′s brother, whom the defense lawyer notes is a witness in Scibelli’s case and under federal indictment.

“CHS provides a material basis to believe that he and ‘witness #5′ (‘my brother') were involved in a criminal enterprise together at the very same time when the investigation in this case was taking place. Under this backdrop, the information sought concerning ‘witness #5′ becomes material and relevant given that he is currently being prosecuted by the Government and appears on their list of witnesses,’” his motion reads.

The government must respond to Andreopoulos’ motion by Aug. 21. A hearing on the matter is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni on Sept. 11.

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https://theblackhand.club/court-records ... b-himself/
[/qu. Just over 3 points on a 5G loan ?

[Bklyn21]

Why is Cechettelli involved in this and the attorney saying he is not a rat and to remove his name ? Is Dave or his nephew the informant ? That's exactly how it sounds

[JeremyTheJew]

Why is Cechettelli involved in this and the attorney saying he is not a rat and to remove his name ? Is Dave or his nephew the informant ? That's exactly how it sounds

I think so...

It says he is described as "CW #5"

[chubby]

Trying to lock a guy up for shylocking when the wired ci is out there fucking selling death pills ... ridiculous.

[CTamg65]

Why would Chicky have his his attorney ,in court at that,bring up the fact that his client is not a rat and wants it to be known that he isn't if he truly is a rat. Ok just my two cents ,I doubt a lawyer would go to court saying I don't defend rats and open and publicly say he wants the reason why he's on the witness list and it to be known he doesn't cooperate with authorities of in fact he clearly does idk just doesn't make sense to me the guy Chicky is all over Springfield,and if he was a rat I don't think he would have his lawyer ask about it in the open....just my two cents. Is it possible he was a witness to everything in parking lot of social club maybe the prosecution was going to call him to testify,and he tells them to fuck themselves. Idk if that's possibly how he would end up on witness list idk just a thought

[TommyNoto]

Trying to lock a guy up for shylocking when the wired ci is out there fucking selling death pills ... ridiculous.

I have to agree with you there

[Pmac2]

Happens alot. Kinda like unindicted conspirators. Theres always a few in lcn fed cases and people always assume why wasn't so an so indicted. Almost like the feds leave them out to hammer them later and also put a cloud over there name on both sides

[chubby]

Trying to lock a guy up for shylocking when the wired ci is out there fucking selling death pills ... ridiculous.

I have to agree with you there

I mean I don’t see how the feds can’t gauge who’s more dangerous to have on the street... a guy who’s customers agree to the terms of placing or a bet, or customers that agree to the vig on the loan they get... there’s no victim there.. the borrowers aren’t victims... they’re pieces of shit when they run to the feds cause they don’t want to pay, then you have this ci talking about how many fake fentanyl 30s he’s gonna sell and take over the city... those things are straight death in a pill... by far one of the most dangerous things on the streets right now..

[chubby]

So is chicky a rat or what???? Pretty funny if he is cause he’s got omertà and Cosa Nostra tattooed on him. lol that’s embarrassing even if you were an inducted member...

[AntComello]

So is chicky a rat or what???? Pretty funny if he is cause he’s got omertà and Cosa Nostra tattooed on him. lol that’s embarrassing even if you were an inducted member...

Lmao I doubt he’s a rat but if he is that would be great considering his tats...does anyone if Anthony Scibelli is a rat? Guys in social media are calling him out saying he’s a rat and I posted to pic in the mugshot section of him wearing a dress