Joe Cafasso's Uncle Angelo Mosca

Perhaps my imagination is running away with me here, but indulge me for a moment and think about this. Cafasso's uncle, his mother's brother, pled guilty in Rhode Island as part of the infamous Plunder Dome Case in Providence.

· January 2000: Attorney Angelo Mosca Jr. pleads guilty to helping arrange a $15,000 bribe to two city officials to settle back taxes on behalf of a client.

This could be one reason he uses his mother's name on occasion. But in light of the scams that were going on down in Louisiana during the aftermath of Katrina, it doesn't take much intelligence to piece together the possibility that Joe or "Jay" Cafasso had a monetary motive to travel down there.

In this Fox News Piece "Two Fema Workers Charged With Taking Bribes" it certainly gives us a possible motive for his trip to Louisiana during this period. Of course, I could be throwing a wobbly myself, but it would seem to me as though this behavior and the idea that certain things are acceptable run in families.

Update: A few more articles referring to Angelo "Jerry" Mosca are here:

4.3.2001
Grand jury indicts Cianci, 5 others on 30 counts of racketeering, conspiracy

Freitas's dealings led to guilty pleas by Pannone, Ead, Annarino and two lawyers who had delivered bribes on behalf of other property owners for tax breaks, John A. Scungio and Angelo "Jerry" Mosca, who is also a long-time State House insider and lobbyist.

Hmmm. Sounds familiar.

4.3.2001
Summary of charges

That November, the lawyer, Angelo A. "Jerry" Mosca, gave Ead the money, the indictment says. Acting on the instructions of Corrente, Ead delivered the $10,000 to Corrente at his City Hall office.