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The informant, who is not named in court documents, had been wearing a wire to get dirt on Anthony Scibelli, who is allegedly involved in illegal loans. Scibelli, of Springfield, is facing a charge that he allegedly violated U.S. laws on collection and extension of credit by extortionate means. The charges were filed in 2019.
On Tuesday, Aug. 17, a court motion of discovery filed by Scibelli’s lawyers seek to demonstrate that the informant was not a victim of an illegal loan organization, but, allegedly, a drug dealer with his eye set on running Springfield.
“In an interesting turn of events, [the informant] inadvertently left the government issued recording device on which resulted in multiple hours of [the informant] communications being recorded,” the court documents stated.
The “hot mic” conversations sound like something out of a mob movie. Here’s a selection of what the FBI allegedly caught the informant saying:
ON SCIBELLI:
“I want to put a bullet in his [Scibelli’s] head … I wasted all my time and I took a beating and I could have put him in the hospital for the rest of his life.”
ON DRUG DEALING
“That’s really the only thing I do, is the pills, right? Cause they [the FBI] said ‘Don’t make us find out anything else out, please. Tell us whatever you gotta tell us now. … No - there’s really nuttin but the pills.” ...
“It’s a good thing I built some kinda relationship with [the FBI] over the last month, where they know me a little bit, or I woulda [explitive] got [explitive]. …
“They only hear it on the tape. Still, that’s admissible in court. So, they never actually seen the pills.”
ON PUNISHMENT
“You know how long you go away for a hundred pills? It’s not a joke … you can’t play both sides … you get caught.”
ON WHY DEALING?
“But I feel like sayin’ this is why I have to sell Percocet, cause II can’t even get money that’s owed to me.”
ON DESPERATION
“I was getting to the point where I was ready to murder couple people, actually shoot them in their heads, and I would have went to prison the rest of my life … I was targeting who I was going to get.”
ON REVENGE
Informant: “At the end of the day they’re all going to go to jail so I’ll have my revenge, then won’t I?”
Female: “Then what happens?”
Informant: “Then I take the whole city over with my brother and five other people.”
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