Alleged Boston capo’s ties to FBI called lengthy

  Mark Rossetti, a Patriarca mafia member with capo La Cosa Nostra clout, was also a mob rat with a rock-solid relationship with the Boston FBI–more than a decade before his arrest by State Police last year on  drug trafficking and extortion  a lawyer for one of his codefendants said yesterday during a Suffolk Superior Court hearing.

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Steven Boozang, who represents Mark Weddleton, an alleged member of Rossetti’s organization from Revere, said that he based this assertion on good faith information he has received as well as the fact that an FBI beeper number was found on Rossetti when he was previously arrested for a parole violation.

In light of this, Boozang said, it is surprising that State Police would say they were unaware that Rossetti was working as an informant when they targeted him and his associates more than a year ago in an investigation into violence, extortion, and drug trafficking.   to read  more  Click here: Alleged capo’s ties to FBI called lengthy – The Boston Globe