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Boston mobsters sentenced to prison for extortion scheme
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2016-05-04T10:20:47.000Z
2016-05-04T10:20:47.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/boston-mobsters-sentenced-to-prison-for-extortion-scheme"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237064056,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237064056?profile=original" width="500" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Two alleged members of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston on Monday in connection with extortion. Anthony Spagnolo (74) - photo above - was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000. Earlier, in the same case, Pryce Quintina (76) was sentenced to 15 months in prison.</p>
<p>Both men pleaded guilty to conspiring to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion in December of last year. According to prosecutors, in November 2012, a social club in Revere named the Moose Lodge wanted to replace its existing video poker machines, supplied by Constitution Vending Company, with new video poker machines. </p>
<p>There was, however, a problem. Constitution paid Spagnolo and Quintina to protect their video poker machines in social clubs, including the Moose Lodge. If the Moose Lodge intended to replace Constitution’s aging machines with new ones they would decrease Constitution’s profits and potentially cause Spagnolo and Quintina to receive less protection money.</p>
<p>Fuggedaboutit! Spagnolo and Quintina thought, as they quickly <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-england-mafia-bust-emphasizes-mob-s-decline">sprang into action</a>. They met with the manager of the Moose Lodge and told him that Constitution’s machines “were not going anywhere.” The manager knew both men and their reputation. He knew they were part of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-england-crime-family">Boston mob</a>. After their visit, he decided not to replace those machines.</p>
<p>The case was part of a multi-year investigation into La Cosa Nostra operations in Eastern Massachusetts, which resulted in the conviction of five members and associates of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-england-crime-family">New England Mafia</a>.</p>
<p>Those busted include: Louis DiNunzio (29) of Medford, who the government alleges is a made member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-england-crime-family">New England crime family</a>, Joseph Spagnuolo-Kazonis (30) and John Woodman (43) were convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana. In addition, John Evans (68) and Joseph Petrucelli (24) were convicted of conducting an illegal gambling business.</p>
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New England Mafia bust emphasizes mob’s decline
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2014-10-03T18:30:00.000Z
2014-10-03T18:30:00.000Z
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<p>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Two New England mobsters stood before a Boston judge, yesterday, and pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges. Both men have links dating back to the good ol’ days of the American Mafia, yet as their charges were read one couldn’t help but think of the dismal state the once powerful crime syndicate is in today.</p>
<p>According to the indictment, both men are charged with “conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion.” Fancy words for extorting $50,000 in protection payments from a video poker machine company located in Revere for the past seven years.</p>
<p>That’s 7,142 dollars and 86 cents a year.</p>
<p>I think you can make more begging for change on certain street corners.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237041267,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237041267?profile=original" width="250" /></a>The two alleged masterminds behind this extortion are reputed New England acting boss Anthony “Spucky” Spagnolo (72 - an old photo of him on the right) and made member Pryce “Stretch” Quintina (74). According to the indictment the racket had been going on for decades and both mobsters were only carrying on what must’ve begun to feel like a tradition. The new owner was afraid that if he did not continue to make the protection payments, the Mafia would force him to remove his company’s machines from the bars and social clubs that hosted them and permit other vendors to install their own video poker machines.</p>
<p>So he contacted the feds.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/02/revere-man-identified-alleged-acting-boss-new-england-mafia-federal-indictment/lBXG8fvQqihepC5yeIJr0I/story.html" target="_blank">The Boston Globe</a> writes that both men “reputedly represent the old guard of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-england-crime-family">Patriarca crime family</a>, their service dating back to the Mafia’s glory days, when the late boss Gennaro Angiulo controlled the Boston underworld from the 1960s to the early 1980s.”</p>
<p>Spagnolo was allegedly involved in narcotics and a capo in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-england-crime-family">New England family</a>, while Quintina’s uncle was also a capo. Furthermore, <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/02/revere-man-identified-alleged-acting-boss-new-england-mafia-federal-indictment/lBXG8fvQqihepC5yeIJr0I/story.html" target="_blank">the Globe writes</a>, “Spagnolo and Quintina have served prison terms themselves. Spagnolo pleaded guilty to numerous racketeering and drug dealing charges in 1991 and was sentenced to nine years. Quintina was sentenced in 1995 to 7½ years. He was charged with setting up Angelo Patrizzi for murder in 1981, though he pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in an agreement with prosecutors.”</p>
<p>As stand up as they come. Especially in Boston.</p>
<p>Irish crime boss and infamous rat <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-making-of-mob-boss-whitey-bulger">James “Whitey” Bulger</a> played a big role in helping the FBI decimate the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-england-crime-family">New England La Cosa Nostra family</a>, his biggest rival for control of the city’s rackets, during the 1980s and 1990s. With turncoats like Bulger, news about a stand up gangster in Boston always comes as a surprise.</p>
<p>Spagnolo and Quintina face 20 years in prison if convicted. Two decades in prison for $7,142.86 a year for seven years.</p>
<p>This ain’t <a href="http://amzn.to/1pxsprn" target="_blank">The Godfather</a>. It isn’t even <a href="http://amzn.to/10prKCA" target="_blank">Goodfellas</a>. This resembles the mob family portrayed in <a href="http://amzn.to/1sRVZ1M" target="_blank">Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai</a>. An <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rml5ehAl7SM" target="_blank">excellent</a> movie starring Forest Whitaker as a black hit man who works for the Italian Mafia. A Mafia that operates out of the back of a Chinese restaurant where its members are hounded by people left and right because they are late with their rent and face eviction.</p>
<p>Why bring up the movies?, you may ask. Well, because movies are the only thing that is keeping the Mafia’s reputation for violence and untold riches alive. Though there remain several powerful crews and families in New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, and, perhaps, Philadelphia, in most cities the Mafia is but a shell of its former self.</p>
<p>In most places, the Mafia has become like an old boxing champ. Someone who was once feared and powerful, someone whose name still carries weight because of replays of his old fights. But also someone who is now nothing more than an old, fat, mumbling has-been who no longer resembles the man on the television screen.</p>
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