Real-life Tony Soprano jailed in connection to 1984 murder says dental records switched to frame him

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A New Jersey mobster who has been in prison for decades in connection with the beating death of a used car salesman is now reportedly claiming he was at the dentist at the time of the slaying.

Mob experts said iconic TV mob boss Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini, , closely resembled NJ mobster Martin Taccetta.

Craparotta, 56, was beaten to death by men with golf clubs at his Route 9 car lot on June 12, 1984, reportedly to scare his nephews into paying tributes to the Lucchese crime family from earnings on their video poker machines, the report said.Taccetta was seen hugging his mother, Ida Taccetta, outside the Ocean County Justice Complex, in Toms River, N.J., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005., after serving a 12-year sentence.

Taccetta claims the assistant attorney general who prosecuted him in 1993 hid from him an FBI report that concluded his dental records — which he says proved he was at his dentist’s office an hour away when Craparotta was killed — were secretly altered, the report said.Mob experts said the cocky, charismatic Taccetta was the real-life Tony Soprano, the iconic TV mob boss from New Jersey played by the late James Gandolfini, .

 

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