Patriarca Crime Family Capo Mark Rossetti
By Kevin Cullen, Globe
Boston Feds Sleeping with enemy again. Consider this: The FBI gets into bed with a suspected killer, on the dubious premise that he can give it information on other criminals, even though he is, by deed and reputation, far worse than any of the people he’s supposedly informing on.
Sound familiar? It should. It’s Whitey Bulger all over again. Except this time Mark Rossetti is Whitey Bulger. And this isn’t ancient history. It was going on until just last year, and is only now coming out.
Rossetti is a reputed caporegime in the Boston faction of the Mafia. He is a convicted armed robber and is awaiting trial on charges that he ran a loan sharking and heroin ring. He is considered a suspect in at least six unsolved homicides, according to multiple law enforcement officials.
Despite his record and reputation, Rossetti was recruited as an informant by the FBI. The FBI won’t say when. Spokesman Greg Comcowich declined to say whether the FBI was aware that Rossetti was a suspected killer when it recruited him
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Myfox boston also reports with Video
BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – FBI Informant Questions Linger. New details are emerging about how the FBI handled one of its informants who is now accused of running a highly organized and violent criminal enterprise.
This isn’t a story about Whitey Bulger, but the similarities between that case and this one are striking. The man at the center of this case is Mark Rossetti, who was arrested by State Police Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/undercover/fbi-informant-questions-linger-20110815#ixzz1VIc45ZIL
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