Real-life mobsters’ Paulie-like plots
It’s as good as “The Sopranos” — and it’s real.
Aging mobsters from New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family were at no loss for Paulie Walnutsworthy ideas on how to get rid of an “out of control” capo from Elizabeth, new FBI wiretaps show.
Among the proposed solutions, revealed by the feds Thursday as they busted 10 members of the family that inspired the hit HBO mob series:
Acid in the face, a thorough “spray painting” with bullets, or a dozen slugs to a particularly sensitive section of the lower anatomy.
“You gotta maim him or you just gotta put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, or somebody’s gotta get a fkin’ jar of acid and throw it in his fkin’ face,” alleged DeCavalcante capo Charles “The Beep” Stango, 71, was heard on tape brainstorming with fellow mobsters in December, according to transcripts released by the US Attorney’s Office in Newark.
Other suggestions tossed around by Stango, who now faces some 40 years in prison for allegedly dealing coke, plotting to start a Toms Riverbased escort service, and the never-consummated revenge hit:
Maim him, throw him “in the Amazon [River],” or toss “a couple of pineapples [hand grenades]” his way.
“Let me put him in a [wheel] chair . . . and when he gets better put him in a chair again and let them wheel him around,” the septuagenarian seethes at one point in the transcripts, part of the failed contractmurder charges against him.
“You put 12 [bullets] in his nuts. OK. I’d take his legs out,” Stango demands at another point before snarling, “I’m a ‘High Noon’ guy.”
Stango, arrested Thursday at his home in suburban Las Vegas, was also caught on tape in a phone call with nowcodefendant and alleged DeCavalcante
consiglieri Frank “Goombah Frankie” Nigro, 72, of Toms River.
“You want him in the Amazon?” the alleged capo asks the alleged family adviser. They’re again discussing the rival capo, an unidentified, “made” DeCavalcante member whom Stango refers to variously as “The Mutt” and “the fat fk.”
Ironically, The Mutt had offended Stango by trying to steal away a valuable associate — who turned out to be an inevitably notsovaluable undercover who had infiltrated the family for more than three years.