The Genovese and Pasquale’s Rigoletto
Pasquale’s Rigoletto, 2311 Arthur Avenue, Bronx was run by
Pasquale “Patsy” Parrello is a capo in the Genovese family who used to run his crew out of Pasquale’s Rigoletto
Pasquale's Rigoletto had seen its share of mob violence. In June of 2011, Parrello once ordered the beating of a panhandler who harassed female patrons outside of his place. Actually, he ordered that the man’s knees he broken in half. Genovese soldiers Ronald " The Beast" Mastrovincenzo and Buddy Torres followed their orders and beat the man and were later recorded describing the experience as a game of baseball.
Parrello son, Pasquale Parrello Jr., was also murdered as a result of an incident at the eatery in April of 1993. On that night Gambino consigliere' Frank Locascio's son, Salvatore, was in the place being loud and obnoxious. Parrello warned Locascio to calm down, and when he didn’t, Parrello slapped him in the face.
On April 23, 1993, Pasquale Jr. was shot to death by an Albanian hood named Victor Mirdita who was arrested near the murder scene.
Mirdita’s Albanian crew worked closely with the Locascio’s. Mirdita shot Parrello, who was only 24, once in the head and once in the heart outside a grocery store on E. 187th St. in the Belmont section about 10.55 a.m.
Remarkably, Mirdita, was acquitted in a contentious 1995 murder trial in the Bronx Supreme Court. He was found guilty of a related weapons possession charge, however, and sentenced to 5-to-15 years. He was behind bars for 10 years and was released in 2003.
On December 5, 2001, Patsy Parrello and Genovese captains Rosario Gangi and Joseph Dente, Jr. were charged with extortion, robbery conspiracy, gun trafficking, loan sharking, labor racketeering and embezzlement, credit card fraud, trafficking in untaxed liquor and cigarettes, gambling and counterfeiting. That cost him an 8 sentence year.
He was accused of instructing his soldiers to collect a man's gambling debt with an iron fist, telling them, "Choke him, actually choke the motherf er . . . and tell him, 'Listen to me . . . next time, I'm not gonna stop choking . . . I'm gonna kill you.'
In 2014, the FBI spent $25K on an elaborate feast at Pasquale’s Rigoletto that resulted in the roundup of 46 organized crime affiliates including suspected Philadelphia mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, and alleged acting Genovese capo Eugene “Rooster” Onofrio.
In August 2016 he was indicted again in a racketeering case
In 2003, Victor Mirdita, Parrello's son's killer, had been released from prison and was spotted by Ronald Mastrovincenzo who found out Mirdita owned a restaurant.
He told Parrello who began plotting Mirdita’s murder and brought in Israel “Buddy” Torres, Anthony Zinzi, and Bradford Wedra, who are all longtime members of Parrello’s crew.
However the FBI had an informant in the crew named John Rubeo wore a wire. The bureau told Mirdita that his life was in danger.


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