amd_chrispaciello3  Patron Saint of small time  snitches

 Christian Ludwigsen  aka  Chris  Paciello

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Paciello was a muff diver who surficed  in little Havana’s South Beach  He snitched off   a couple of wiseguys to get out of a murder rap. He was the low-life scumbag  driver on a  house invasion where a poor decent  woman  was shot  to  death

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Henry Hill

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  Henry  is a broken down stew bum. as  well as a crack smoker, and smack  shooter. Hill was, and is,  a low-level-low-life who  snitched  on a couple of  low grade gangsters who were hyped  up to make Henry important in  a movie.

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John Branco  aka ”Juan”  the lawn man

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   Branco was a closet cheese eater in Chicago. He entraped a few Mobsters in a two  bit  Las Vegas Mafia  case.

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Joseph  Houser aka “Joe “

rat-8604  Houser  was a  fabulous fabricator  with high  caliber connections to Washington lobbyists’ 

 He  made big  bucks running   bogus   insurance  scams  out  of  L. A   He  got  busted  for a few  Federal   white collar crimes  . Houser  decided  to  play  ball  with  the  Feds .and  he  duked  a  couple of undercover agents  into  Louisiana , Mafia chieftain, Carlos Marcello which  led  to  the   Don’s downfall.
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Louis  Shumway
rat-86041 Louis Shumway was an FBI snitch and an accountant whose valuable information led to a conviction of “Public Enemy No. 1″ mobster, Al Capone .
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John  Di Mattia  aka  Jitters
rat-86043 Di Mattia was a coward,but he was a  good earning  mob associate.   At one time  the LA Mob put a contract out on  him for snitching to Organized Crime copper, Jack Motto.
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Joey Calco aka Milano
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Joey Calco was  a killer for the Bonanno Crime Family .  He  left the  federal witness protection program after helping take down the clan’s one-time acting boss.
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 Lewis  Kasman
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 Kasman is John Gotti’s self-proclaimed “adopted son”. He made his snitching debut at a mob trial in Florida  claiming he became a cheese eater  because members of the late mob boss’ clan, including John A. (Junior) Gotti kept hounding him for cash.
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Peter “Fat Pete” Chiodo
no11Pete was a capo in the Lucchese crime family who later became a government informant
                In 1991, Chiodo was charged with violations of the Racketeer (RICO Act). At this point, he decided to plea guilty in return for a lighter sentence.
              Uncertain of Chiodo’s loyalty and angry at his guilty plea, Lucchese crime family leaders Vittorio “Vic” Amuso and Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso decided to kill him. They ordered the current acting boss of the family Alphonse ‘The Professor’ D’Arco, to take him out, D’Arco was surprised by Casso’s decision to kill Chiodo as they had been good friends for years.
                       Following Casso’s order so he himself did not get whacked D’Arco ordered the hit. On the morning of 8 May 1991 three shooters shot Fat Pete 12 times. He survived only because of his obesity. Following the asassination attempt Chiodo decided to flip
                   
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 Primo  Cassarino
rat-8604-gg52002, Cassarino, along with Gambino boss Peter Gotti and captains Ciccone and Richard V. Gotti, was convicted of labor racketeering, extortion and shaking down actior star Steven Seagal . Cassarino received an 11-year prison sentence. Shortly after receiving the sentence, Cassarino told the feds that he was willing to cooperate in hopes of getting his sentence reduced.
Cassarino provided information to the feds on the Gambinos control of the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfront
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Dominic (Fat Dom) Borghese: 
rat-86044The ex-Gambino soldier and snitch  once weighed over 400 pounds…     The fink Fatso  routinely staged fake kidnappings of himself to shake down thousands of dollars from his own in-laws
 Borghese  was the second Gambino wiseguy to  rat after Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. He testified against Gotti Jr,.and Gambino killer Joe Waverly..
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James Chalmas aka “Teddy”
no12This is the ex-con and federal informant whose apartment mob hitman  Joe Barboza was leaving in San Francisco in  when he was murdered by shots fired from a van by Boston Mafia capo J.R. Russo. Chalmas is now in the Witness Protection Program.
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Joseph Massino
rat-86045Bonanno Crime Family boss agreed to wear a government listening device during two meetings with his successor.
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Anthony” The Saint”  St Laurent
rat-8604-gg6When asked under oath if he was a informant,”, The Saint ” took  the 5-th
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Joe Vollaro
rat-86046Vollaro was a drug dealer before he began making money hand-over-fist in construction rackets with the Gambinos.

When state investigators nailed him with a kilo of cocaine, the mob wanna-be eagerly flipped and began secretly recording mobsters and drug customers

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Salvatore Vitale a/k/a  “Sal”
no15Joseph Massino (the boss of the Bonanno family) were arrested by the FBI and charged with racketeering and murder. Vitale( underboss) was also facing a separate murder charge and agreed to testify against Massino in exchange for sentencing leniency. Vitale’s testimony centered around a series of murders allegedly orchestrated by Massino and John Gotti. In October 2004, based upon information provided by Vitale, the FBI located the bodies of Dominick Trinchera, Phillip Giaccone, and John Favara in Ozone Park, Queens, New York.[2] This information helped lead to the convictions of Massino and Gotti.
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Dominick Montiglio
rat-8604-gg7 Dominick  the cheese eater  is the nephew of Anthony ‘Nino’ Gaggi, a  respected captain in the Gambino family.  Dominick became a government witness in 1983 after being arrested for extortion and went on to testify in two Federal trials aimed towards his uncle Nino and a violent crew headed by Gaggi’s subordinate Roy DeMeo. Dominick Montiglio is now living under a new name at an undisclosed location in the United States.
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Dominick Cicale
rat-86047Cicale  is a  one  time-protégé of Bonanno family capo  Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano. He turned snitch and   
 testified against Basciano in the mobsters murder and racketeering trial
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Frank   Lino aka  Curly
rat-86048Lino was a Bonanno  Crime Family Capo.
He testified against his boss, Joseph Massino . Frank implicated  his own son and relatives to the FBI.
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.Ron Previte aka”Big Ron” ( left)

.rat222Former copper-turned-mobster-turned-government witness has helped send more than 50 “made” members of the Philly family and  their associates to prison.. Previte didn’t do it to save his own neck. He did it for nearly a million dollars as a paid informant.

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William “Big Billy” D’Elia

rat-8604-gg8William “Big Billy” D’Elia, became the latest Mafia leader to turn government informant as he was sentenced  to nine years in prison for witness tampering and conspiracy to launder drug money. D’Elia had faced a maximum of 30 years in prison and a $750,000 fine. Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a reduction in D’Elia’s sentence if he continues to cooperate

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Richard Cain

rat-86049Cain was a notoriously corrupt Chicago copper,  and a close associate of Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Cain turned fink, and  was killed by masked gunmen in Rose’s Sandwich Shop in Chicago

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Michael  Franzese   “Mikey”

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Michael “the cheese eater”  became a government witness,  and testified for federal prosecutors in Chicago that he was a “strong-arm” threat for sports agent Norbert “Norby” Walters. Franzese testified that Walters invoked his name to frighten college athletes into signing contracts designating Walters as their agent for purposes of negotiating contracts with professional sports teams. Walters was convicted for these activities. Franzese has testified in a second case and has agreed to testify in other fraud cases against some of his former associates and co-conspirators in New York.

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Vincent “Fish” Cafaro

rat-8604-gg10In 1986, a second member turned against the Genovese family when Vincent “Fish” Cafaro, a soldier and right-hand-man to Anthony Salerno, decided to cooperate with the FBI and testify. According to Cafaro’s sworn statement, Gigante ran the family from behind the scenes while pretending to be mentally ill. Cafaro said this behavior helped further insulate Gigante from authorities while he ran the Genovese family’s criminal activities.

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George Ashe

rat-860411 The FBI recuited Ashe as an informant in 1964 after he got out of jail. He was involved in  the Irish wars in Boston. He was killed later  by Jimmy “The Bear” Flemmi.

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Salvatore “Big Sal” Miciotta

rat223Colombo Crime Family hitman,and rat, “Big Sal” Miciotta,  testified against Detective Joe Simone accusing  him of leaking confidential information from the Organized Crime Task Force to the Colombo Family.

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Carmen  “Flipper” Milano

rat224 Underboss,Flipper Milano named his brother Pete Milano  as  the Boss of the Los Angeles Mafia to  the Feds  as part of a plea deal.

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William Cutolo Jr aka “little Billy”

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William Cutolo Jr. wore a wire for the feds to avenge his father’s death, Colombo family underboss William Cutolo Sr.  He dubbed his undercover work “Operation Payback”…Cutolo Jr. said he considered killing his father’s murderers, but instead opted to help put them in jail.. He is no longer in the witness protection program.  Cutolo’s  late aunt called him a pansy  for cooperating  with the Feds.

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Ray Ferritto

rat-860412  when  hitman ,and Jimmy Fratianno amico  Ray Ferritto  learned the Cleveland Mafia  wanted him  dead, he became a government witness and testifeied against 15 members of  the Cleveland Mob for  the murder of Danny Greene

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Frank  Cullotta

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Facing life behind bars as a persistent felon, or a bullet in the head from a Mob assassin, Cullotta made his decision. On Monday morning he called Charlie Parsons. Within hours Cullotta was offered a deal that would give him immunity from prosecution for any crimes he admitted and admission into the federal Witness Protection Program. He confessed to myriad crimes, including the Lisner murder. Court records show that between 1982 and 1988 Cullotta’s testimony against his former associates resulted in 19 federal racketeering-related indictments; four Illinois murder indictments, and five Nevada burglary and armed-robbery indictments. These charges resulted in 15 federal convictions, one Illinois murder conviction, and five Nevada burglary and armed-robbery convictions

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Carmine  Sessa

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Cheese-eater Carmine Sessa was a Brooklyn-based mobster who became consigliere of the Colombo crime family.
  
Sessa began his criminal career doing bank robberies for the crew of Gregory Scarpa Sr. in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
  
 Sessa was eventually arrested and convicted for his role in a bank robbery. In 1990, Sessa was charged with violating probation after being linked to a crew of sophisticated bank robbers known as “the By-Pass Gang
  
 The murders of Otto Heidel and Dominick Costa were ordered by the gang’s leaders. Sessa later admitted to shooting Costa, while Zambardi served as a lookout. On April 8, 1993, Sessa and other Colombo mobsters were arrested while attending a secret meeting outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. Sessa had been a fugitive for the previous nine months.
  
 Sessa was indicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act murder conspiracy charges. Shortly after the indictment, Sessa, at the urging of his wife, decided to become a government witness. Sessa went on to testify against many family members.
 
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Tommy “Horsehead” Scafidi 
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Philly Mob, Mobster, Tommy “Horsehead” Scafidi,  is from South Philadelphia. His childhood friends gave him the nickname Horsehead because in profile his face resembled the long snout of a horse. Scafidi  testified at the Federal racketeering trial of Joey Merlino and six others..Scafidi came across like the stereotypical Mafioso. And the jury bought it.  Scafidi claims he decided to cooperate with the government because he believed that Merlino would kill him when he was released from jail and because he was going to be indicted and tried for money laundering and other Rico crimes anyway..

 
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 Frankie A. Roche

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After being charged in Hampden Superior Court in 2005, Roche turned government witness on the eve of trial  Roche was paid .$10,000 to ambush Mafia boss Adolpho “Big Al Bruno” after his regular Sunday night card game at an Italian-American social club.

Two men, including Geas and 30-year-old Brandon D. Croteau were subsequently charged in that court based on Roche’s testimony. Roche admitted to murder in federal court under a plea deal that allowed him to skirt the death penalty and enter a witness protection program