$2 Million Bond Set for West Palm Beach Mob Suspect

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Aug/09/2016

  • Pasquale “Patsy” Capolongo among 46 named in indictment tied to five East Coast crime families
  • Prosecutors say Capolongo threatened a cooperating witness who had hundreds of thousands in gambling debts
  • His ex-wife, brother and sister-in-law, agreed to put up their homes as collateral and co-sign the $2 million bond
  • Prosecutors had sought to keep Capolongo behind bars with no bond

A $2 million bond has been set by a federal judge, the honorable William Matthewman, for a West Palm Beach County man, one of six in that county charged in a wide-ranging organized crime indictment out of New York last week.

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Pasquale “Patsy” Capolongo and five other men from Boca Raton and Delray Beach were named in the 46-person indictment with various charges that include extortion, gambling, gun-running, violent acts of retribution, loan-sharking and more.

The operation has ties to the Genovese, Gambino, Luchese, Bonanno, and Philadelphia Crime Families of LCN, each of which allegedly formed a rare pact to form the East Coast Enterprise.

Prosecutor Aurora Fagan referred to Capolongo as an agent for a Costa Rican-based sportsbook who was already out on bond in an unresolved 2015 Broward county bookmaking case.  Prosecutors say Capolongo threatened a cooperating witness who had hundreds of thousands in gambling debts.  His ex-wife, brother and sister-in-law, agreed to put up their homes as collateral and co-sign the $2 million bond. Prosecutors had sought to keep Capolongo behind bars with no bond.

One count mentioned in last week’s indictment alleges a Philadelphia mob boss ordered a beatdown of panhandler he believed was harassing customers outside his Bronx restaurant, telling a cohort to "break his ... knees."

- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com

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