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A wall of images of mobsters is displayed at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The museum, also known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, chronicles the history of organized crime in America and the efforts of law enforcement to combat it. (Ethan Miller/AFP/Getty Images)
Anthony DiNunzio, the acting boss of New England’s Cosa Nostra crime family, was arrested in Boston on Wednesday morning on charges including racketeering, extortion, and conspiracy, the New York Times reported.
DiNunzio, 53, allegedly became the leader of the mob in late 2009, and was the brutal overseer of the extortion of Rhode Island strip clubs to the tune of $2,000 to $6,000 payments per month, the New York Times reported.
At his court appearance in Providence, Rhode Island, DiNunzio’s attorney Robert Sheketoff entered not guilty pleas on his behalf, the Associated Press reported. The mob leader was ordered held without bail until his hearing, which is scheduled for May 3, the Boston Globe reported. 

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House Speaker Robert DeLeo called the spending plan “a very fiscally responsible budget.”
“It’s just another follow-up to the good news that we received this year about our bond rating increase,” he told reporters Thursday.
One of the House’s final actions before passing the bill was approval late Wednesday of an amendment targeting abuse of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, which work much like debit cards for people who receive welfare assistance from the state.
The measure would add several items to the list of purchases that could not be made with the cards, including firearms, cosmetics, professional services other than medical care, strip clubs, travel services, health clubs, tattoo parlors, jewelry, gambling, payment of restitution or bail, and gambling. EBT cards are already prohibited for alcohol, lottery tickets and tobacco purchases in Massachusetts.

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Salem mom of underage stripper gets 3 years
by KGW Staff
KTVB.COM
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM
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today at 10:23 AM
SALEM — A woman who alerted police last year that her underage daughter was stripping at a Salem club pleaded guilty in court Wednesday for using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct.
After entering her guilty peas on Wednesday, Lopez was sentenced to 36 months in prison, 36 months post-prison supervision, and must register as a sex offender.
In December, 2011, 42-year-old Christina Marie Lopez complained to the Salem Police Department, OLCC, and several media outlets about her 17-year-old daughter stripping at Presley’s Playhouse Cabaret in south Salem.
Investigators later obtained surveillance video from the business “that showed Lopez in the club watching her daughter dance and providing her money,” according to Lt. Steve Birr, with Salem police.

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… I think that some of the debate, frankly, seems to be a veiled debate about what’s really at issue which is whether we should provide benefits to people to help them help themselves, and if that’s a debate folks want to have then they need to bring it with that candor because we have to be and we are in this Commonwealth about helping people help themselves,” Patrick said during his appearance on WTKK-FM ’s “Ask the Governor” segment.
The House late Wednesday night adopted an amendment to its budget on a 122-33 vote attempting to crack down on abuses in the state’s $415 million welfare system that distributes benefits to recipients through electronic benefits transfer cards.
After a sharp debate stirring strong emotions among some members who criticized the proposal as an attack on poor people, the House voted to restrict welfare benefits from being spent in places such as nail salons, tattoo parlors, casinos, and strip clubs or on travel, cosmetics and theater tickets. The House also approved $100,000 to be spent on a consultant to study how Massachusetts could move to a cashless system.

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SALEM, Ore. — A Salem woman was sentenced to three years in prison for allowing her 17-year-old daughter to work as a nude stripper.
Christina Marie Lopez pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted use of a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct.
The issue came to light in December when the 42-year-old Lopez complained to police and media that a strip club had hired her underage daughter.
In an interview with KATU News in December, Lopez said she learned her daughter was stripping when she found high-heeled shoes in her bedroom.
“When I seen they were big and ugly like this, I knew something was up,” she said at the time. “It makes me sick. Makes me sick thinking she’s 17, but to me she still has a little kid’s body.”
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Lopez’s daughter went on to work as a stripper at another club.

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For the second time in two years, a state-federal task force has taken down a reputed head of organized crime in New England. Anthony DiNunzio was arrested at a Boston social club.
Prosecutors allege DiNunzio took charge of the New England faction of La Cosa Nostra, LCN, after other mobsters ran into legal trouble. Special agent in charge of the FBI in Boston, Richard Deslauriers, says DiNunzio’s arrest sends a clear message to aspiring wise guys.
“Whoever may consider taking future leadership of the New England LCN should know that the FBI and our law enforcement partners will continue to devote the full measure of our combined resources to address any criminal activity associated with the LCN,” Deslauriers says.
DiNunzio was charged with racketeering and extortion in a case involving the shakedown of Rhode Island strip clubs. The 53-year-old East Boston man was ordered held without bail. He’s due back in court next Thursday.

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Reputed mob boss arrested in Boston’s North End
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The arrest of reputed New England mafia boss Anthony DiNunzio has been hailed as “another nail in the coffin” for organized crime in Rhode Island.
State police Superintendent Col. Steven O’Donnell said Wednesday that the 53-year-old DiNunzio was arrested at a social club in the North End section of Boston.
Authorities allege he participated in the shakedown of Providence-area strip clubs for protection payments and met with members of the Gambino crime family in an effort to expand the mob’s reach.
Not guilty pleas were entered on DiNunzio’s behalf on charges including racketeering conspiracy and extortion conspiracy.
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Welfare Benefit Spending Changes In The Works
Mass. Lawmakers Consider New Rules For Trips And Purchases.POSTED: 7:02 am EDT April 26, 2012UPDATED: 8:02 am EDT April 26, 2012
BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers are considering major changes to welfare benefit spending outside of Massachusetts and along bordering states.
House members worked late Wednesday night and debated changes that would include a ban on using welfare benefits for trips.
Also under consideration is a ban on purchases of pornographic materials, firearms, tattoos and jewelry, as well as for use at strip clubs.
The proposed changes to welfare guidelines follow a Team 5 investigation that highlighted questionable spending by welfare recipients in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Las Vegas and Hawaii.
The Team 5 report detailed $2.3 million in questionable welfare benefits spending in a 3-month period outside of Massachusetts.

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Indicted in strip club extortions
PROVIDENCE  
An investigation into the alleged shakedown of Providence strip clubs left the New England mafia without its reputed leader Wednesday as authorities arrested Anthony L. DiNunzio on charges he oversaw the mobs extortion of adult entertainment businesses and sought to broaden the crime operations influence.
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Aside from allegations that DiNunzio oversaw the extortion of strip clubs, the indictment claims he sent a member of the mob to New York to seek permission from the Gambino crime family to shake down an adult entertainment executive from Rhode Island.
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In some meetings with Gambino crime family, DiNunzio fretted about being swept up in the strip club shakedown case, the indictment said.
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Meeting with a Gambino crime family representative in December in Clifton, N.J., DiNunzio discussed who he would have step in for others in Rhode Island who had been charged in the strip club case, the indictment said.

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Anthony L. DiNunzio of Boston is charged with extorting money from owners of strip clubs.
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Aside from allegations that DiNunzio oversaw the extortion of strip clubs, the indictment claims he sent a member of the mob to New York to seek permission from the Gambino crime family to shake down an adult entertainment executive from Rhode Island.
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In some meetings with Gambino crime family, DiNunzio fretted about being swept up in the strip club shakedown case, the indictment said. In the June 2011 meeting at My Cousin Vinny’s, DiNunzio described the search of him a month earlier that resulted in the FBI seizing $5,000 from him after he met with Rhode Island mob captain Edward “Eddy” Lato.
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Meeting with a Gambino crime family representative in December in Clifton, N.J., DiNunzio discussed who he would have step in for others in Rhode Island who had been charged in the strip club case, the indictment said.

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