What an interesting case! Thanks for bringing this here Reader!
As the trial is in session, I'm going to transfer it to the Trials Forum. But first I want to look up some older articles and see what this guy is all about. One of the articles I read said something about 'hit.'
JMHO
fran
Accused Mobster Enrico Ponzo Caught in Idaho
February 10, 2011
He introduced himself to his neighbors as Jeffrey Shaw, a man who went by the nickname "Jay." He paid for everything in cash. He bought his house in his girlfriend's name.
But his past proved a stubborn companion.
Ponzo couldn't hide his vaguely New York accent. He couldn't keep his stories straight. He couldn't hide his expertise with a gun during a trip to the local shooting range. And in a community where Ponzo was surrounded by wide open ranch land, his neighbors could tell he didn't know anything about farming.
The past Ponzo tried to bury finally came calling this week, when federal agents arrived at a subdivision in Marsing and shattered the life he had so carefully crafted.
more at link ......... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20031427-504083.html
Mobster As Time Capsule: Ponzo Returns To Mass.
March 25, 2011
He was arrested last month in a small town in southwestern Idaho, where he was living a quiet life on the lam among kids and cows. And now, with a graying goatee, a bald spot and a hearing aid, Ponzo is back home on the range in Massachusetts. Known out in cattle country as Jeffrey “Jay” Shaw, he — with U.S. Marshalls at his side — flew in from Marsing, Idaho. But his story shouldn’t be confused with “Lonesome Dove.”
Enrico Ponzo, at left in a 1994 mug shot, and at right in an undated file photo at a hockey game in Idaho (AP)
Enrico Ponzo, at left in a 1994 mug shot, and at right in an undated file photo at a hockey game in Idaho (AP)
Standing in an august, largely empty courtroom at 42, Ponzo comes back as a time capsule from a violent era in Boston when Mafia factions were killing each other and the FBI that was out to get them was infiltrated and corrupted by the Mafia’s rivals, Whitey Bulger’s Mob.
“At least from the intelligence we knew [Ponzo was] a very dangerous individual,” says retired State Police Sgt. Bill McGreal. McGreal tracked drug dealers and gangsters as a member of the Suffolk County Narcotics unit in the 1980s. Out of the North End, Ponzo was on the scene at 20, with a reputation for being brutal, hot-headed and wild.
“The group was known to us as ‘We Deliver’ ” McGreal says. “There were two people in each vehicle and they would deliver packets of cocaine.”
State police reports identified the young Ponzo as a potential shooter for the local Mafia. One tip off? The cops found a silencer and a rather big gun in his Revere apartment.
“It was a machine gun, a fully automatic machine gun, according to the Revere Police report,” McGreal says.
full article at link ........ http://www.wbur.org/2011/03/25/ponzo-in-court
Superseding Indictment Returned Against Longtime Fugitive Enrico Ponzo
January 31, 2013
BOSTON—A Boston man was charged today in federal court with 18 counts of racketeering, drug trafficking, witness tampering, and other charges.
According to the superseding indictment, from June 1989 through December 1994, the Patriarca Family of La Cosa Nostra (“the family”
engaged in various criminal activities, including multiple acts involving murder, racketeering, extortionate credit transactions, extortion, and conspiracy. In or about 1991, Francis P. Salemme, a/k/a Frank Salemme, became boss of the family. Ponzo and his co-conspirators are alleged to have acted to usurp control of the family by plotting and attempting to murder Salemme and others who were loyal to Salemme or who were viewed as rivals in their efforts to control the organized criminal activity in the greater Boston area. It is further alleged that Ponzo and his co-conspirators derived income from illegal activities including extortion, loan sharking, and narcotics distribution and to have utilized violence and the threat of violence to further their aims.
It is alleged that Ponzo and his co-conspirators engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity that included murdering and conspiring to murder Richard Devlin and Joseph Souza, and conspiring and attempting to murder Salemme, Richard Gillis, Joseph Cirame, Michael Prochilo, Stephen Rossetti, and Timothy Lawrence O’Toole, Jr. It is further alleged that Ponzo and his co-conspirators conspired to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, and that they committed various other criminal acts including extortion, the use of extortionate means to collect extensions of credit, and using, possessing, or carrying a firearm during or in relation to a crime of violence and a drug trafficking offense.
more at link ............ http://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-rel...turned-against-longtime-fugitive-enrico-ponzo
Accused Mafioso on the run for 17 years set to go on trial
Oct. 07, 2013
But years earlier in Boston, according to authorities, he was Ponzo, an alleged wannabe gangster, an associate of the New England Mafia who attempted to kill rivals including former Mafia leader Francis P. “Cadillac Frank” Salemme.
The true story of Ponzo, now 45, who spent 17 years on the lam, much of that time hiding out as a rancher in Marsing, Idaho, is set to play out in a trial beginning Monday in US District Court in Boston. He is charged in a sweeping racketeering indictment that alleges he distributed drugs, laundered money, and attempted to kill rivals.
more at link ............ http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...r-set-trial/SauUKyfDitJg3t2tbFZGDK/story.html
As an aside, the photo at this above link of the suspect, looks just like Scott Peterson!
Attorney bristles at demand Enrico Ponzo shave
Feds want wise guy’s whiskers whacked
Reputed mobster Enrico Ponzo will present two faces to a federal jury beginning next week — clean-shaven then full-bearded — *if prosecutors have their way.
The feds first want witnesses to recognize the accused hit man from his “prominent cleft chin,” then with a beard, mirroring his appearance while on the lam in Idaho.
- See more at:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinio...emand_enrico_ponzo_shave#sthash.fi3nccIA.dpuf
