Tony Sposado aka ”Toothless Tony”
Tony “Toothless Tony” Sposado started his non -stellar crime career as a whipping boy for a browbeating old-school mobster named Mike Marquese. Mike had Tony lugging coca-cola cases and vending machines off of vending trucks..Nothing criminal about that, if the trucks had belonged to Mike
Marquese but they didn’t..
Sposado made crumbs from the capers —while Marquese made a pretty penny using the stolen swag to stock-up his own vending business. Sposado’s downfall came when he met up with a punch-drunk stew-bum named Ronnie Rome.
Rome had been in the vending business with Boston’s Angiulo mob, but he became a fence jumper when he flaked out on a mob hit.The two flat-tires became fast friends by putting in many nights of booze riddled banter in mob owned barrooms. Rome filled Tony’s head with full-of-shit-stories and empty promises that Sposado sucked up like Monica Lewinsky
. Tony then quit on Mike Marquese for what he thought would be a big time vending venture with Ronnie Rome–but it went bust when Ronnie fleeced him like a turnpike sucker at a carnival.Tony started dealing drugs and he got busted and did a long stretch in the can. He
