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Infamous Boston mob figure busted again
Boston | May 09, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST
A former alleged New England Mafia capo was among more than a dozen people indicted this week in a Massachusetts gambling probe. Vincent M. Ferrara was charged with a single count of conspiring to use a phone for gambling purposes just three years after he was released from prison in a controversial federal racketeering case. The Boston Globe said that while the new charge is a misdemeanor, the fact that Ferrara is on probation exposes him to up to three years in prison if convicted. The Globe said Ferrara was at the center of a mob power struggle in 1980s and had served 16 years of a 22-year prison sentence for racketeering before a judge ruled there had been government misconduct and set him free in 2005. At the time, Ferrara had been implicated in the killing of Vincent Limoli. The Globe said he agreed to plead guilty to the slaying and the racketeering charges in order to avoid a possible life sentence. While Ferrara, 56, had seemingly laid low after his release, his name came up in a state police investigation into illegal gambling in Boston and South Shore areas. (UPI)
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