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August 9, 2007

Mobster ordered back to prison

PROVIDENCE -- Mobster Edward C. Lato, a capo regime in the Patriarca crime family, was ordered to return to federal prison today for violating the terms of his federal probation.

U.S. District Court Ernest C. Torres sentenced Lato, 60, of North Providence, to five months in prison for associating with a person involved in criminal activity. He told Lato to report to a yet-to-be determined federal prison by noon on September 4. Upon completing his sentence, Lato will remain on supervised probation for 20 months.

Last December, Lato, two mob associates and nine others were arrested and charged with participating in a gambling and drug ring that had ties to Houston. At the time, Lato was in the final months of his probationary period for a prior extortion conviction. In accepting the five-month sentence, federal prosecutors said that an additional federal violation charge stemming from the recent raid has been dropped.

-- Journal staff writer W. Zachary Malinowski

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