Howie Carr: Prison weight loss program awaits ‘Fatz’ the fentanyl kingpin [+exclusive photos]

Fatz Caruso, we hardly knew ye!

On Thursday, Vincent “Fatz” Caruso, the 27-year-old convicted fentanyl kingpin of the North Shore shall be sentenced to federal jail for his lifetime of crime. The feds are asking for 22.5 years, which is on the low facet of federal sentencing tips.

But first his mother, Laurie Caruso, who was additionally in his DTO – Drug Trafficking Organization – goes down at this time. She’s 11.5 years at her sentencing.

In their pre-sentencing memo, the feds have put collectively what quantities to a photograph album of Fatz’ Greatest Hits. The photos – each his personal and the cops’ — converse for themselves. All I can add is a number of statements from the feds’ submitting, in addition to from his personal lawyer’s arguments for a shorter incarceration.

Let’s let the prosecutors lay out how Fatz “flooded the area North of Boston with hundreds of thousands of pressed fentanyl pills … (Fatz) also orchestrated multiple armed robberies, as well as a shooting where the fully automatic handgun was used to spray dozens of rounds at a porch full of people.”

Incidentally, Tuesday was the primary anniversary of that drive-by taking pictures.

The feds level out the lethal toll from Fatz’ trafficking in Class A narcotics:

“While the DTO was operating in Danvers, Salem, Saugus and Lynn, over 1,000 people in Essex County have died from opiate abuse, to say nothing of the thousands of others who died in neighboring communities … (Fatz was) generating large profits for himself while spreading untold despair, misery and death to those afflicted by substance abuse disorder.”

In his heyday, Fatz managed “a sizable percentage of the fentanyl pills” within the Boston space.

And as you’ll be able to see from Fatz’ picture album, this 300-pound archfiend was not precisely a shrinking violet when it got here to bragging about his lifetime of crime.

“For example,” the feds observe, “the Defendant posted a copy of his booking sheet from the Jan. 2020 arrest by MSP, essentially bragging about the fact that the serious drug and firearms charges did not bother him: the caption read, ‘Y’all nig**s be ready to cry in ya mug shots lol I laugh at these bitch (expletive) nig**s.”

Fatz purchased a tablet press for making his faux blue Percocet 30s. He had a lot money he needed to buy a cash counter. He was playing as much as $10,000 a day — $400,000 in three months at a single on line casino.

He has agreed to forfeit greater than $200,000 in money seized by the feds. He purchased tricked-out ATVs and filth bikes.

“There was so much money, the Defendant apparently ran out of things to buy and brag about. He resorted to throwing cash in the air in nightclubs.”

Fatz had two tattoos that the G-men say summed up his philosophy: “Menace II Society” and “Live by the Gun Die by the Gun.”

As for his mother, Laurie, when the cops raided her home in May 2018, they discovered, amongst a whole lot of drugs and a firearm, $30,000 in money. They additionally found her welfare card from the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance.

As for Fatz’ personal movement for leniency, you’ll not be shocked to be taught that this ninth-grade dropout fancies himself a sufferer of circumstance. His lawyer says that as a youth in Swampscott he suffered from ADD, ADHD and bipolar dysfunction.

“At age 11 he accidentally overdosed on his prescription.”

Like all aspiring rappers, he’s now “engaged” to the mom of his little one. The future Mrs. Fatz mentioned in her assertion to sentencing Judge Denise Casper that she met Fatz whereas “living in an unstable environment after my father died of an overdose.”

Fatz’ youthful sister says he taught her tips on how to experience a motorcycle, “which was needed due to my moms (sic) alcohol addiction.”

One of his associates named Chad Nelson defined that Fatz’ launched into his one-fat-man crime wave for one easy motive.

“He just wanted to be a provider for his family … Vincent Caruso has never been in any major trouble before this. He was trying to turn his life around.”

Of course Fatz was! Aren’t all of them?