1. Pasquale "Pat The Cat" Spirito was an American mobster who was a soldier in the Philadelphia crime family from 1981 until his death on April 29,1983.
18 Facts About Pat Spirito
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Pat Spirito is the son of Stephen Spirito and Rose with one sister Lucille born in 1942.
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Pat Spirito came from the Italian community of Chambersburg which is part of Trenton.
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Pat Spirito worked in the Scarfo crime family during the 1980s, during Nicodemo Scarfo's reign.
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Pasquale Spirito was an associate of made man Joseph Ciangalini who introduced Spirito into the life of organized crime.
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Pat Spirito earned the nickname amongst his fellow associates as 'The Cat' because of con artist charm and demeanour.
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Pat Spirito was an associate until he was the getaway driver in the murder of John Calabrese, a long-time drug dealer who served under Angelo Bruno and then became a 'made man' under Phil Testa with Francis Iannarella and Andrew Thomas DelGiorno at a secret induction ceremony at the home of mob associate Robert Locicero in Vineland, New Jersey.
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Pat Spirito recruited Nicholas Caramandi, Charles Iannece, and Ralph Staino Jr.
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Pat Spirito was almost shotgunned to death in his Cadillac while driving down the street by Harry Riccobene loyalists.
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The attempted murder of Pat Spirito was in retaliation for murdering 35-year-old Samuel Tammburino, murdered by Charles Iannece and Francis Ianarella as he left a pharmacy-convenience store in South Philadelphia that was owned and operated by Tammburino's parents shooting him sixteen times.
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Furthermore, Phil Leonetti stated in the book Mafia Prince that Scarfo was infuriated when Pat Spirito told Scarfo who should be made captains and soldiers in the family.
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Pat Spirito was reluctant, and Scarfo sent Nicholas Caramandi and Charles Iannece Jr.
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Pat Spirito was killed for failing to carry out the contract to kill Robert Riccobene, the brother of Harry Riccobene.
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Pat Spirito had me in a booth in a luncheonette drinking coffee for four hours, making me tell him how much I love him, and it's already set up to kill him the next night.
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Pat Spirito had come out of Trenton and moved to South Philadelphia at a time when mob members were low-key operators concentrating on gambling, loan-sharking, and bookmaking.
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Pat Spirito was greedy and ambitious, attributes that Scarfo could appreciate, but he lacked the killer instinct.
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Pat Spirito thought he could slide by generating enough money to keep the Little Guy down the shore satisfied.
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Pat Spirito was a money-maker, but he was a whiner and complainer.