Sunday, August 14, 2011

Rossetti the Rat

Is his cell next to Whitey's?

"Reputed mob boss is called FBI informant; Court papers say state was wiretapping Rossetti" August 12, 2011|By Milton J. Valencia and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

Mark Rossetti, a reputed Mafia leader who was indicted last year on state charges of running a sprawling criminal enterprise of drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking, had been working all along as an informant for the FBI, according to documents filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court.

The documents, filed by two lower-level players in Rossetti’s alleged crime ring as part of a legal strategy in their own case, do not identify Rossetti by name. But he can be clearly identified through descriptions of his conversations with his FBI handler, and through a State Police organizational chart of his alleged crime ring, the Rossetti Criminal Organization. Rossetti is a reputed capo in the New England Mafia....

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Also see: FBI had OK from police on Rossetti 

 Isn't it sad that the biggest gang of criminals in AmeriKa turn out to be the cops?