Tony "Toothless Tony" Sposado started his non -stellar crime career as a whipping boy for a browbeating old-school mobster named Mike Marquese. Mike had Tony lugging coca-cola cases and vending machines off of vending trucks..Nothing criminal about that, if the trucks had belonged to Mike
Marquese but they didn't..
Sposado made crumbs from the capers ---while Marquese made a pretty penny using the stolen swag to stock-up his own vending business. Sposado's downfall came when he met up with a punch-drunk stew bum named Ronnie Rome.
Rome had been in the vending business with Boston's Angiulo mob, but he became a fence jumper when he flaked out on a mob hit.The two flat-tires became fast friends by putting in many nights of booze riddled banter in mob owned barrooms. Rome filled Tony's head with full-of-shit-stories and empty promises that Sposado sucked up like Monica Lewinsky
. Tony then quit on Mike Marquese for what he thought would be a big time vending venture with Ronnie Rome--but it went bust when Ronnie fleeced him like a turnpike sucker at a carnival.Tony started dealing drugs and he got busted and did a long stretch in the can. He came out a broke and useless, toothless, busted suitcase.
Another true Hollywood Story
