Vinny was a person who was posting in an attempt to collect information for The Mass State Police. Alot of people posted here in response to him and the Staties got alot of information.
His real name is Hal Mayo and he is from Everett. He was once into drug trafficking and that started a relationship with the Mass State Police Special Investigation Unit. It was quite an elaborate ruse that was thought up by Hal in an attempt to keep in good graces with his handlers. You might call Mark Rossetti a top echelon informant for the FBI. Hal Mayo is a top Echelon Informant for the Mass State Police and he is very elusive when it comes to arresting him on anything, thats why the Staties thought it if they can't beat him why not join him. They even went so far as to call his pre-trial probation officer to advocate keeping him on the street when he tested positive for cocaine. That's alot of pull, very valuable.
Lieutenant Johnson of the Mass State Police Special Services Unit has given a standing order to protect Hal at all costs.It is kind of a trade off with the FBI and Rossetti.If you go to Fox 25 undercover and watch the Trooper (the one who looks like he eats nails) escorting Rossetti into the State Police Barracks you can see him whisper in his ear don't worry Mark we'll just trade you for Hal, you'll both get sweetheart deals.

Good job Vinny I mean Hal

Your writing style is just like VinnyGorgeous217's. Just sayin....

I find it very very very hard to believe that they would plant someone on this board, exactly what information are they going to get from this or any board. Sorry but this sounds like a load of crap to me.

FWIW, I got the impression he wasn't claiming the guy was 'planted' as such, just some random douchebag.

Still, I agree. Sounds suspiciously like bullshit to claim that mob investigators would be gathering useful information from the speculative observations and rehashed info made by anonymous posters on an internet message board on the subject. If anything, all they got was info they should have already known, nothing that should possibly be considered actual intelligence gathering. If it's true, the State Police of MA are in a pretty sad fucking state.

Whoever Vinny was, he didn't have the balls to post any follow up's. Unless this Hal character is Vinny. Not the same thing as 'following up' though.

I'm with Mela on this one. Just sayin.....

I haven't seen the Barber post anything on here in a long time either. Just a conspiracy theory, but they(Barber and Vinny) both had some ties to the local OC (or at least knew some people). After the Howie Carr article raised some hell locally, is it possible that they were encouraged to stay off these boards?

Wow, and I thought I was a conspiracy theorist! Some vivid imaginations on here.

I have been around just reading and observing. I have put up a few post in the sopranos forum.

I have stopped posting because I realized 2 simple thing.First Whatever rumors we may here on this forum , another forum or wherever dosent mean they are true. They are gossip / speculation. I ll let the media do the reporting on what's what and I will just observe.

And second these are real people and I don't feel its our place to discuss them like they are TV characters.

I still enjoy reading the boards but my posting days are pretty much over

agreed!

Even as the Boston FBI was claiming that they changed their procedures, they still allowed their top echelon informants to run amok.
Take for instance Richard Floramo who led a charmed life after being inducted into the Mafia. He attempted to put a contract on someone's life and after it was reported to the FBI nothing happened. The person he tried to hire and refused to carry out the murder is now being tried for trying to kill Richie Floramo. I would of went on the run to Idaho too with the way the Boston FBI operates.

All this talk of Richie being a rat wouldn't be going on if he were still alive.

The individual that was and is posting under names such as Hal, Come Clean, Everett Mob, and even Pat Russolillo is a goof named Steven Fitzgerald. He goes by the name Fat Harvey. Harvey grew up in Everett and was basically a degenerate gambler. He goes from bulletin board to bulletin board with his nonsense and untruth. He did a short bit in Billerica where he got slapped around by a wannabe named Lelo. After he got out he was blackballed by everybody so he decided to be an informant. Fat Harvey was physically thrown out of the Everett Police Station when he brought his computed generated "paperwork" that was clearly devised by him. Next he went to the State Police where they realized he knew nobody and nothing. That is where his bitterness towards Staties comes from. His own family disowned him due to his clinical mental state of mind. He uses dozens of aliases on several different boards looking for attention and bad mouthing respected (rightfully so) people. In one word he was, is, and always will be a loser. You can expect replies under different names in response to this but you can take this reply to the bank. If you read his posts carefully they make no sense. He has pieces of different stories he's heard and tries to put them together. So Harvey, or whatever name you want to call yourself, time is a wasting. Tick Tick Tick.

harV any proof? this also seems like a bunch of crap

If Richie Floramo were still alive he would be calling the FBI and begging them to stop people from telling the truth about him.

i just want to say, i know this guy...and, i used to call him uncle bow...my dad, charles guarino was his best friend and we lived in malden, ma...and he was from medford. no wonder why my dad was in jail so much...what a piece of crap...now its confirmed that my dad was apart of the mob which excites me but saddens me bc of the legacy it leaves.

What ever happened to a man producing "paperwork" to verify an informants' status, or does being at least half Irish with ethical moral values of a career criminal require paperwork before labelling anyone as a "rat" ?

hey. you people seem pretty much on the money with these crews.They are in disarray and hear that their are people placed in the area from new york acting as overseers but acting very quietly. One guy is actually in Hampton,n.h. and is a grandson of a former Genovese member and the grandson grew up in eastie/winthrop and is purportedly a very nice guy but a vicious button guy who is used in special clean-up type jobs. Has anyone heard about this guy?

Bullshit Vinny wanted to wack Ritchie my ass Ritchie was one of Jr Russo my idol young Turk that's why he got made so Vinny wouldn't wack none of salemme and ray Jr loyalists that's why and Ritchie father ran with old Samuel granite that was sonny rizzo and the elder pryce capo who Is a salemme and ray Jr loyalist to correct the info

I'm right here and that's bullshit

this whole thread has become nothing but shit and should be locked.

you might be talking about dominic isabella a bonnano soldier moved to boston in the 80's to help things out

The beginning of this thread is interesting. I followed this ages ago. I sent people here to see what they thought. vg217 and chico99 appeared to be playing a game. The 'from Eastie' thing stuck out. Most everyone I know from East Boston would not have printed the stuff people printed here, but then again I never associated with rats or wannabeeeeeeeees.

Still, interesting thread.

btw, ask any old timer from Somerville about Howie Carr and the Pool Hall on Winter Hill. Now that is funny 'news'

I just registered and just want to say hello to everyone.I was reading some of the post made on this board and some of the information is wrong first of all the Saint was on a wire you can hear all the tapes on line. I read about his case and how they arrested his whole family that is pretty sad. All the guys that were arrested in providence R.I and in boston well now the truth has come out that it was Bobby Deluca

Hi Jerry welcome aboard!

Hey Nicky Scarfo Thank's

rico ponzo finally got caught haha after all these years working as a rancher in idaho hilarious... i can tell you this first hand that ponzo used to sell alot of guns back in the 80's and 90's, and supplied some to some low level salemme followers like lonnie hillson(ponzo worked withh various crews despite what clowns may say) etc.. ponzo operated in everett/revere and east boston for the most part.

Floramos in chelsea is a dump.

sonny and pryce are old time revere lcn guys(back in the revere beach days), there ancient these days but still run there betting office out of a deli shop in west revere.

iam familar with alot of the everett guys never heard of mayo or fitzgerald must not carry to much wieght, your saying duilio lelo fabbo smacked him aorund in the house, i can see that... lelo is definetley a wannabe, hes a juicehead too, shakesdown herion, and coke dealers in medford,malden and stoneham...

ah the Revere Beach days and a glorious roast beef sandwich from Kelly's, how I miss those days.....almost as dear to me as the nights I spent cruising Nantasket Beach in my 67 GTO back in high school....