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A New England mob associate, Matthew ‘Matty’ Guglielmetti, was released from prison last week after serving 10 years. He will now be under house confinement according to reports.
The 65-year-old Guglielmetti is a high ranking figure in the powerful Patriarca crime family of La Costa Nostra. He plead guilty to drug trafficking over a decade ago but was also said to be active in the family’s gambling and loan sharking business.
Jeffrey Sallet – the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Boston office of the FBI – said organized crime in New England has been “decimated" though.
“The environment in the state of RI right now is you have very limited strength from Rhode Island in the ranks of La Cosa Nostra,” said Sallet. “We had our thumb on them, we will not take our thumb off them.”
“This is not a friendly environment for them to do business,” he added.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
