Slain gangster flashed his jewelry at clubs
“I have made a very good living on poker in the last several years, which has afforded me to live my lifestyle the way I do”
Ricardo Francis Scarpino bragged about sometimes carrying around $100,000 in poker winnings and wearing a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch that would earn him envious stares in downtown nightclubs. via Vancouver Sun
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