Darin Bufalino , mob associate of former Patriarca boss “Cadillac Frank” Salemme
By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff
New England mobster Darin Bufalino today was sentenced to seven years in the slammer for his role as an enforcer and juice loan collector in an organized crime rimg bossed by Mark Rosset an alleged Patriarca Mafia Capo and FBI informant on par with murdering mob rat whitey Bulger
A prosecutor said Bufalino was an “assistant and an associate” of Rossetti and collected gambling and loan debts, as well as protection money, for him.
Bufalino was sentenced by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Linda Giles after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion and attempted extortion, charges that grew out of an investigation by State Police, along with prosecutors in the offices of Attorney General Martha Coakley and Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett
