Edward Lato, longtime member of the Rhode Island mob, dies at 77

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Edward Lato, longtime member of the Rhode Island mob, ***** at 77

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, a longtime Rhode Island mobster

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as the local ****** fractured under the weight of ********* prosecutions, ***** Friday with members of his crew by his Johnston bedside, said Steven O’Donnell, a former superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.

Lato, arrested more than 30 times with 18 convictions for ******* ranging from racketeering *********** to running an ******** sports-gambling operation, was 77.

“Eddie elevated [in the ******] as a trusted, loyal soul,” said O’Donnell, who spent years working undercover in the mob and who teaches about organized ****** at Salve ******* University.

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Edward Lato, right, appears with Frank “Bobo” Marrapese at a May 2011 arraignment at District Court in Providence.

“Eddie never cooperated, never collaborated, with the police,” said O’Donnell. “He was one from the old school who stayed within the [silence] code of omerta.”

In 2011 federal authorities swept up Lato and several other New England members of La Cosa Nostra, including former mob boss Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio. They charged them with shaking down strip clubs for protection money.

The following year, U.S. District Judge William E. Smith imposed the stiffest sentence on Lato – nine years – noting, “You have established yourself as, essentially, a career *********.”

In 2014, while still in prison, Lato added to his ********* record, pleading no contest in state court to *********** charges stemming from a sports-gambling operation. He received no additional time, and

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to a halfway house in Pawtucket.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal:

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