Friday, May 17, 2013
Former State Police trooper John Analetto was arrested in 2011 on suspicion of extortion.
A federal jury has found former Massachusetts State Police Trooper John Analetto, a Belmont resident, guilty of extortion of a gambler, according to Boston Globe. Analetto, 20-year veteran of the State Police, was suspended without pay after his Dec. 31, 2011 arrest on suspicion of extortion and threatening to kill a local bookie. Analetto threatened a gambler who owed their bookie, Robert Russo, money, according to the Globe. However, the jury was hung on a second extortion charge, according to the Globe. Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. declared a mistrial for that charge. Analetto's attorney, Daniel W. O'Malley would not say whether his client would be tried again for the charge. He said prosecutors would make that decision. The case …
Monday, May 13, 2013
John Analetto, on trial for extortion, threats, will be using "The Sopranos" defense.
Rather then a tough leg breaker ready to wipe the floor with an unfortunate bookie, attorneys for a Belmont suspended State cop are telling prospective jurors that John Analetto “is simply a drunk with a big mouth.” So begins the preliminaries for the federal extortion trial of the state trooper where prospective jurors are likely to be asked about their gambling history and anytime they have been on the wrong side of the law. Analetto, 49, a 19-year veteran of the Massachusetts state trooper, has been suspended without pay since his arrest in December 2011, according to the Boston Herald. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of threatening to murder a bookie who owed him $24,000. The local bookie, who recorded the meetings – …
Friday, January 25, 2013
John Analetto was seeking to be released before extortion trial.
John Analetto, the Belmont resident who was arrested more than a year ago for extortion and threatening to kill a local bookie, will not be let out of jail before this trial after a judge noted that Analetto's own psychiatrist had "reservations" about him being released out into the public. Analetto, who was suspended without pay as a Massachusetts State Police officer since his Dec. 31, 2011 arrest, was denied his request to be released as Judge George A O’Toole, Jr. ordered him detained until his trial, according to an article in the Boston Herald. O’Toole wrote that Dr. Robert H. Gray, who was hired by Analetto's lawyers, said last year that Analetto should rather “undergo inpatient psychiatric therapy, possibly in a locked facility” if…
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Belmont resident will remain incarcerated on extortion charges.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Could face up to 20 years on each of two criminal counts.
Belmont resident and former Massachusetts State Trooper John Analetto was formally indicted on two criminal counts of extortion by a grand jury in US District Court in Boston Wednesday. Analetto was arrested Dec. 31 by a State Police SWAT team just off Trapelo Road after a long-time bookie – known in court documents as "John Doe A" – asked the FBI for help after Analetto began treatening to kill the gambler and sought to muscle in on his large number of East Coast clients. Assistant US Attorney Eugenia Carris said that Analetto extorted the bookie "to collect and attempt to collect an extension on credit" in violation of federal law. Carris said Analetto also used "extortionale means" to collect the money. Both charges carry a maximum …
Monday, January 9, 2012
Recording shows John Analetto threatening bookie who was a secret FBI informant.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Brought before federal court facing up to 20 years; see video of the arrest on Dec. 31
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Statement of Massachusetts State Police Col. Marian McGovern regarding the arrest of John Analetto
The Massachusetts State Police today, Jan. 3, suspended lifelong Belmont resident John Analetto after his arrest Saturday, Dec. 31, by the FBI for extorting money from an bookmaker. In a statement, Mass State Police Superintendent Col. Marian McGovern said that Analetto's actions noted in an affidivat released today in Federal District Court were the "actions of a criminal and street thug." “Beginning last week, the Massachusetts State Police joined the FBI in an investigation into bookmaking and extortion crimes committed by John Analetto, a state trooper. We provided assistance to our federal law enforcement partners and together determined that circumstances required us to move quickly to apprehend Analetto. He was taken into custody …
Federal affidavit shows resident threatened to harm bookie, bettors.
Two days before Christmas, somewhere in Belmont, John Analetto answered his own chilling question while talking to a bookie he was shaking down. "Will I kill you? Ya, I'll f---ing kill you," said the 48-year-old Belmont resident to who turned out to be a confidential witness, who decided four days earlier that the 19 year veteran of the Massachusetts State Police was so dangerous that he willingly fell into the arms of the Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Analetto will be arraigned in federal court in South Boston today, after being arrested Saturday afternoon, New Year Eve, by an FBI SWAT team outside a Trapelo Road gas station across from the Dunkin' Donuts in Belmont's Central Square. The resident will be charged …
Sal P.
12:24 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
Enough...all he did was talk to much...I know him...he would do for you if could...let him go home! more ›