Vento sr "was one of the few big mobsters that refused to pay tribute to the Cosa Nostra," recalled Frank Friel, public safety director of Bensalem Township and former head of the Philadelphia Police-FBI organized crime homicide task force.Scarfo never collected the street tax from Vento, who continued to run hisdrug operation from his prison cell and order P2P from Germany even though he knew his phone conversations were tape-recorded.In one call, Vento told an intermediary to tell a mob soldier who was demanding "street tax" from his drug profits to "go f - - - himself and everybody connected to him, all right?"