By this time, Little Angelo was bringing home the bacon by running an illegal gambling club, various Joker-Poker machines, and a loansharking operation.
Testimony from mob turncoats indicates that Spata organized meetings and made calls for the elusive street boss until a grand-slam indictment from 2008 charged Gioeli with multiple homicides. Spata networked his marital status by becoming a close personal assistant of Carmine Persico's loyal acting boss, the murderous Tommy Gioeli, during the 2000s. Even though Junior had been behind bars since 1985, the organization was still under his command. Beginning in the 21st century, Spata became one of the go-to guys to pass along messages from Persico to the rest of the family.
His father-in-law was the family's boss for the past thirty years, Carmine 'Junior' Persico, and as such, Spata had special permission to meet the 76-year-old godfather at his prison digs in Butner, North Carolina. The youngest of the proposed inductees may not have garnered much of a 'tough guy' image in the Mafia, but by 2010 the 36-year-old had the privilege of being close to influential people in high places.
