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You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. Skip to main content. Ten mobsters from Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York broke bread for more than four hours that day.
They talked about business and history, laughing and joking about who they knew and what they had done. Defense attorneys would argue that it was just a group of friends having lunch and talking about the old days.
He was a wiseguy wearing a wire. The tape from the LaGriglia meeting was one of dozens Stefanelli made for the FBI during a two-year period beginning in Large portions of it were played at a trial in Philadelphia last year along with tapes from a meeting at the American Bistro in Nutley.
Other Stefanelli tapes were evidence in a case in Providence, R. More tapes are sitting in the offices of federal prosecutors in Newark and New York, verbal time bombs waiting to go off in other cases that are still being built. They are the legacy of Nicky Skins Stefanelli who committed suicide in February at age 69 rather than take the witness stand.
The tapes speak volumes about the fractured state of the mob in New Jersey, a once-fertile breeding ground for organized crime where members of seven mob families conducted business. The once-secret society is no more.
Omerta, the code of silence, has been shattered again and again. Tougher racketeering laws, high tech electronic surveillance and the natural progression of the Italian-American immigrant experience have all contributed. The fact is the best and the brightest in the Italian-American community are now doctors, lawyers, engineers and educators.
Second- and third-generation gangsters lack the grit, the style, the savvy and, most importantly, the intelligence, of their forefathers. The mob is scraping the bottom of the gene pool. The tape from the LaGriglia meeting was one of the dozens Stefanelli made for the FBI during a two-year period beginning in Cosa Nostra is a shell of what it once was.
Mobsters all over the country have been rushing to the witness stand and to their literary agents to make deals. Nowhere is the phenomenon more obvious than in New Jersey.
And ironically, the wiseguys sitting at the table at LaGriglia, most of them in their 60s and 70s, were well aware of it. It is hard to imagine that anyone sitting at the table that afternoon would have pegged Nicky Skins as an underworld Judas. Stefanelli had been around for years. The Newark-Belleville area where he grew up was a wiseguy paradise in the s and s.
They ran craps games, took sports bets, loaned money and dealt in stolen property. Stefanelli had a reputation as an easygoing wiseguy who moved in mob circles in both New York and North Jersey. Ironically, the one murder authorities were able to tie him to definitively was the one he committed just two days before he killed himself. Over the years, he graduated to gambling, loan-sharking, extortion, drugs and murder.
But Skins had a softer edge. Why are you guys busting on me? Which, clearly, was a rhetorical question. Stefanelli had a lengthy criminal record. His most serious bust came in for dealing in cocaine and heroin. He pleaded guilty in and did several years in federal prison. His Gambino connections were in New York, where authorities say he was formally initiated into the mob, becoming a soldier who had access to some of the major players in the organization. As a jack-of-all-trades in the underworld, and always looking for opportunities, he moved up and down the East Coast as a Gambino crime family representative, a position that made him even more valuable when the FBI flipped him in I don't want nothing to do with any of that other stuff.
New England mob boss Anthony DiNunzio, 54, pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge in that was based in part on tapes made by Stefanelli. That, according to several sources, was Stefanelli.
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