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WASHINGTON – Edward “Eddy” Lato, 65, ofProvidence, R.I., an admitted capo regime in the New England La Cosa Nostra(NELCN), was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today to 108 monthsin federal prison for participating in racketeering extortion conspiracies ofseveral Rhode Island adult entertainment businesses and of a car salesman andhis wife.
U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smithalso ordered Lato to serve three years of supervised release upon completion ofhis prison term. Lato pleaded guilty onMarch 13, 2012, to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise.
Lato’s sentence was announced by AssistantAttorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division;Peter F. Neronha, U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island; RichardDesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office; ColonelSteven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police; andProvidence Public Safety Commissioner Steven M. Pare.
At the time of his guilty plea, Lato admittedto the court that he participated in a racketeering and extortion conspiracythat demanded and received between $800,000 and $1.5 million in “protection”payments from several adult entertainment businesses in Rhode Island from 1995to 2009. He also admitted hisparticipation in a conspiracy to extort $25,000 from a Rhode Island carsalesman and his wife by using implied threats of violence. The wife ultimately withdrew $25,000 from aretirement account to satisfy the demand for payment.
Seven of the nine defendants named insuperseding indictments and charged with participating in the racketeering andextortion conspiracy, including admitted longtime former NELCN underboss andboss Luigi Manocchio, have pleaded guilty. Manocchio was sentenced on May 11, 2012, to 66 months in federal prison.
The cases are being prosecuted by AssistantU.S. Attorney William J. Ferland for the District of Rhode Island and TrialAttorney Sam Nazzaro of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and GangSection.
The matter was investigated by the FBI, RhodeIsland State Police and the Providence Police Department.
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