There is only one made guy in Connecticut that I know of who is not in jail. He lives in Stratford.

Funny that his crew hasn't been caught up in a big indictment for over 20 years. Totally different mentality. Different revenue streams too.

That Stamford sheet is a hot package. A lot of money, but pretty much a suicide mission. Someone always picks up the reins though.

Actually I had a suboxone with a bacon egg n cheese omelet. "Cheechy" can carry you bag

Jabs? I'm talking about "Pope of Greenwich Village"

You and I both know what it is DN. But it's all good. Despite everything you have said about me across the street I wish you all the best. I know how hard addiction can be and I truly mean that. I hope you beat it

Thanks Cheech Your The Man !!

HARTFORD -- Back in January 2002, Dean DePreta was warned by a federal judge that he had a choice -- commit to his biological family and live a law-abiding life or return to organized crime with the Gambino family.

DePreta, 45, of Bartina Lane, Stamford chose the later.

"Clearly that was not sufficient to deter you," U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant told DePreta.

On Wednesday, Bryant sentenced DePreta, who a federal prosecutor claimed is "the titular head" of the Gambino crime family's southwestern Connecticut operation, to 71 months in prison.

But the judge didn't stop there. She fined DePreta $50,000, ordered him to forfeit $300,000 and required him to be supervised by U.S. Probation for three years following his release from prison.

DePreta was among 20 reputed Gambino associates, bookmakers and gamblers rounded up in June 2012. He was the only one who was denied bond and as a result has spent the past 16 months behind bars. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act through extortion and overseeing an illegal gambling operation that included a Costa Rica-based website and high-stakes clubs at 859 East Main Street and 614 Glenbrook Avenue in Stamford as well as at 2965 State Street in Hamden.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Chen said DePreta had as many as 30 bookmakers who paid a yearly fee to operate, and at least 200 committed gamblers. All this provided a $9 million profit in 4 1/2 years to the crime family, the prosecutor said.

One of the local bookmakers who cooperated with authorities was petrified when called to meet with DePreta at a local diner, Chen said. DePreta described the man as "easy pickings" whose family "got money," Chen said.

The man was forced to meet with DePreta and Nicholas "Nicky Skins" Stefanelli, a Gambino solider who was cooperating with the FBI after being caught in a drug deal. Stefanelli wore a wire during the meeting, which took place in a Southport diner. The bookmaker was told he had to come up with $5,000, court documents claim.

Still, Ethan Levin-Epstein, DePreta's lawyer, said his client is not "a loan shark or an arsonist ... not the stereotypical leg breaker ... just the manager and operator of an illegal gambling business -- no more, no less."

Bryant conceded that DePreta is a gambler, and said that like a gambler, "sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Well Mr. DePreta you lost." She added that the prison term and fines were the price he had to pay.

DePreta, a muscular 6-footer with a clean-shaven head and face, stared at Chen throughout the prosecutor's argument to the judge, When given the chance to speak, DePreta told Bryant: "I see I made a big mistake. You won't see me in this courtroom again."

But the judge was not convinced.

She called DePreta "a recidivist who voluntarily chose to commit criminal acts for decades -- at the expense of others."

Bryant called him an "individual who simply refuses to adhere to any standards imposed on him by anyone other than his criminal associates."

During a Jan. 30, 2010 meeting at Paramus, N.J., diner, Stefanelli told DePreta he would inform Gambino captain Jimmy Dellarata that he and DePreta would work together as a team, according to court documents. They would kick up a portion of the tax taken from bookies to both Dellarata and Mario Antonicelli, a ranking Gambino soldier. Dellarata was to get $1,000, court records indicate.

Stefanelli claimed "Bridgeport's mine," in the conversation, according to the documents. DePreta and Stefanelli also discussed other Gambino superiors including Louie Ricco, a soldier and Louis Fillippelli, a Gambino captain. During the conversation, DePreta said he was committed to the Gambino family.

"I believe in ... the whole thing, the whole thing. I'm looking out for the principles of the family," he was recorded as saying, according to court documents.

Stefanelli could never be a witness at any trial, however. He killed himself on Feb. 26, 2012 after murdering the man he believed set him up in the drug deal.

Was reading through this thread, lots of good info from cheech pizzaboy and AllGoldEverything and a couple good articles too. At the same time I obviously couldn't help seeing our old dope fiend pal's drug-induced nonsense. Lots of credit from me to the two of you for handling it far well than I ever did for sure.

another article about his sentencing. says that they were feuding with the genovese family there.

Mobster Gets 71 Months In Racket Case
October 09, 2013|By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.com, The Hartford Courant
A Stamford man associated with New York's Gambino crime was sentenced to 71 months in prison Wednesday for extortion and other crimes associated with his operation of a string of gambling businesses in southwestern Connecticut.

Federal prosecutors said Dean DePreta, 45, was the leader of about 20 men charged a year ago with running illegal card games and sports betting offices from New Haven to Stamford. In some cases, the illegal gambling network enabled gamblers to place bets over the Internet with a company based in Costa Rica.




Authorities running wire taps recorded DePreta numerous times discussing the gambling operation, including his collection of "street taxes" by extorting or " shaking down" independent bookmakers who were not paying criminal organizations for protection.

After one extortion demand by DePreta, federal prosecutors said the victim was "so visibly agitated from this meeting that he nearly walked into oncoming traffic."

DePreta and others were recorded gossiping about mob politics and declaring their appreciation for what they described as the values embodied by the mafia.

DePreta asserted that he believed in "the whole thing," and that he was "looking out for the principles of the Family," in one recorded conversation.

During the investigation, federal prosecutors said FBI agents became aware of a violent struggle between the Gambino organization and the rival Genovese crime family over competing card games each operated in Hamden. The mobs profited from the games by "chopping" a piece from each pot.

Concerned that the Gambino game was cutting into their profits, three Genovese mobsters attacked the building at 2965 State St. in Hamden where the Gambinos ran poker games that sometimes lasted until 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The Genovese mobsters pitched rocks at the building and barked insults into the intercom system when they failed to breach the security door. Inside, the mostly middle-aged business men playing cards became alarmed, mistaking the sound or rocks hitting walls for gun fire, according to information presented in court.

"The dealer had to yell at the guy to tell him to put his (expletive) phone away and don't call the cops, you know?," one of the Gambino mobsters said in a recorded conversation.

The recorded conversations also showed that DePreta and his associates where "whacking up" their gambling revenues, dividing about half among themselves and sending the remainder to mob high-ups in New York.

DePreta previously pleaded guilty to – and was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant – on one count of racketeering conspiracy. The charge accuses DePreta of extortion and operating illegal gambling businesses. DePreta also was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and to forfeit $300,000.

During the investigation, federal prosecutors said FBI agents became aware of a violent struggle between the Gambino organization and the rival Genovese crime family over competing card games each operated in Hamden.




this is way out of proportion...i knew a lot of these guys and was a real close friend of the supposed master agent mike pepe (he gets out next month)...they originally slashed tires of a genevese hang out in west haven then they retaliated by throwing rocks

violent? hahahha

not one made guy by the way which is funny they cal them all gambino's

i wonder if any of those genevese guys throwing rocks were made? i doubt it.

Well, not to be a know-it-all, but I told everyone from day one that Dean didn't have his button. But because someone saw his name on an Internet chart, they took it as Gospel.

Besides, if he was made the Feds would have indicted him that way. They LOVE to put "made member" on an indictment whenever they can. He was indicted as an associate because that's what he is. That "Titular head of the Gambinos" nonsense came from an overzealous prosecutor .

There just isn't any reason for another made guy up there. Tony comes home next year---he usually averages about two or three years on the street before going back---and that's when Dean should be coming home. It's a very predictable cycle. I honestly thought Dean would have gotten closer to ten; some posters said three to five, and he ended up with six. So it ended up right in between. Par for the course when predicting this shit.

And like I posted on the other site, the problem is, these prosectuors seem to have a hard-on for Dean. Chen's a young guy, and Joengblod (the lead federal prosecutor in that district) is a lifer with the DA's office in the District of Connecticut. So when this kid comes home in four or five years, they'll be waiting. Because if anyone thinks that it's never personal with some of these prosecutors, then you've never been inside a courtroom.

I'm not defending the guy, you play you pay. But these gambling sentences are ridiculous. Killers are getting less time in state court when they plea out to man two or agg assault. And when that happens the system is clearly not working.

But it's a life lesson. You're not just a bookmaker when you're kicking up; not in the eyes of the Feds, anyway. To them, you're a part of a bigger conspiracy, even though 90 percent of Connecticut bookies will go their whole lives without actually meeting a made guy.

they slashed tires at least set the car on fire or something, thats even more embarassing than the rock throwing.

ya that whole "CEO of the Connecticut Gambinos" seemed a little ridiculous, and calling Uva the "Chief operating officer" really cracked me up.

Little Mario is made also, with Tony that makes two

Only 2 made Gambino's in Conneticut? Wow, I'm guessing they have no influence out there, how many made guys did they have at there peak in Conneticut?

But he's not Stamford based and he never has been. He was always much closer the the old guard in New York, and he functioned as a go between with Hartford. He was never hands on in the Fairfield area; not even when he was coming up (which was like a thousand years ago ).

Not many over the years; it was more a succession of made guys: Frank Piccolo, Tommy DeBrizzi, Tony Megale. The area doesn't call for it. Besides, they get more than their share of heat up there. The Fairfield area is always under investigation, so why make more guys?

But to say the Gambinos have no influence up there is way off base, Tommy. There are still a lot of shylocks, sports offices and card games in that area that kick up to New York.

Thanks mate.

Piccolo (Captain), Debrizzi (acting captain), Megale (UB) were the local Gambino bosses in succession but lots of other made guys:

Gambino:
Cosmo Sandalo
Dave Iacovetti
Paolo Agresta
Nick Patti (Captain)
Angelo Culmo (Captain)
Ed Riolino
Don Perrotti
Joe Biondo
Victor Riccitelli
Guido Penosi
Angelo Mascia
John Palmieri
Beaver Salvaggio (or Genovese)


Genovese:
Midgie annunziato
Tommy vastano
Francis Curcio
Gus curcio
Vincent Pollina
Salvador Basso
Benjamin Marchese
Tony Volpe
Girolamo Santuccio (Bobby Doyle)
Joe Pontoriero
Billy West (Vito Sabia)
Anthony Zezima

Patriarca:
Billy Grasso (UB)
Mariano Grasso
Louis Failla
Anthony ascenzia
John Vitello
John Taddei (maybe made)
Rico Petrillo
Sal D'aquila
Dominic Marangelli
Fred Palmieri
Simonelli


Colombo;
Ralph Tropiano (Captain)
George Tropiano
Charlie Demartino

Decavalcante:
Pippi Guerrero
Joseph Laselva
Anthony Laselva
Thomas Laselva
Frank Carbone

Philadelphia:
Robert Gentile

Calabrian N'drangheta:
Vincent Melia

nice list there, welcome.

John Taddei (maybe made)

yes made...now deceased, i knew him

low key guy, wonder how you knew him Numbers?

I had a lot if family up there, mostly dead now, used to be around midgie and some with whitey and Colombos. They were in Garbage biz. abd booking. Colombos and Genovese ran Garbage through Stamford into Westchester. Cousins with Cigars in Bridgeport too. What nobody realizes it that the families all worked together, not so divided- some guys hung more with other families than their own. And so many New York guys came to connecticut over the years down in stamford/Greenwich/Norwalk area that there's no clear distinction between Connecticut, NYC, Westchester members. These guys do business wherever they can make money and it's just easier where there's lots of Italians because they have access to everything. And there's more Italians in Ct per capita than in NY or NJ. So many connected guys that don't make headlines but make lots of money, guys that don't want to be made, just want to earn. They blur the line and that's what this has always been about.

Is his full name Dean DePreta? Shouldn't it be De Preta?