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Louis "Big Lou" Fazzini

Louis “Big Lou” Fazzini

A North Jersey mobster , who copped  to being in cahoots  in the criminal  operations  of  Philadelphia’s La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced today to a 55 month term in federal prison.

Louis “Big Lou” Fazzini, 45, an admitted made member of the mafia ,pleaded guilty in October to a racketeering conspiracy charge tied  to a mob managed  gambling and loan-sharking operation

Fazzini, of Caldwell, called the shots in a sports bookmaking business and  social club in northern New Jersey where illegal gambling on card and dice games occurred regularly.

read the story by  Sam Wood, PHILLY.COM