Report: Boston-Area Mob Boss Mark Rossetti Was FBI Informant
BOSTON (AP) - Authorities allege he's a top figure in Boston organized crime. He's also an informant.
And his name is not Whitey Bulger.
The Boston Globe reports that Mark Rossetti, a reputed Mafia leader who was indicted last year on state drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking charges, had been working as an informant for the FBI, according to documents filed Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court.
The documents, filed by two lower-level players in Rossetti's alleged crime ring, do not identify Rossetti by name. But he can be clearly identified through descriptions of his conversations with his FBI handler, and through a state police organizational chart of his alleged crime ring.
An FBI spokesman declined comment.
Rossetti's lawyer argued that there is no public proof that her client worked as an informant.
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