Mar 17 2007
As police tapes rolled, conversation flowed at cafe
Sollecito complained to Nicolo Rizzuto: “He is always saying tomorrow and after tomorrow. It’s the same song now for five, six months.”
Rizzuto said: “I’ll speak to him now and I will tell him take the time you need, but make it quick to pay the money.”
Sollecito reminds Rizzuto: “This Frank Faustini, he already got a beating because (he) jerked him around for two months. … He got three, four slaps and so he started to pay interest.”
Some gamblers owed so much that their tardiness resulted in a face-to-face with the Consenza patrons.
Stewart Goldstein, who owed $1.6 million, was invited to the Consenza on July 13, 2004, to meet with Compare Arcadi.
Giordano began the meeting by telling Goldstein they wanted to “negotiate an agreement with him.” Giordano said they were tired of watching Goldstein parade around the city in new cars while he owed them $1.6 million. Goldstein, who was charged last year with defrauding a bank and possession of an illegal firearm, had a Ferrari and other expensive cars.
Del Balso told Goldstein:
“$1.6 million must be a joke for you.” Goldstein agreed and replied over the years he had “lost millions.”
Arcadi suggested Goldstein “give us 300 ($300,000)” immediately and then $100,000 a month until December, when the agreement would be renegotiated.
Giordano said they wanted the $300,000 by the end of the week. Goldstein agreed to sell his Ferrari and Giordano announced they had an agreement.
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