Judge tosses "The Saint's" motion to dismiss

Federal Court Judge William Smith ruled today the infamous murder for hire case against reputed mobster Anthony “The Saint” St. Laurent can move toward trial.

Earlier this year St. Laurent filed a motion to dismiss claiming a 2006 plea agreement with the government cleared him of the charges. The government fired back that they had no such deal, and the judge agreed.

“Defendant’s interpretation of the plea bargain finds no support in the text of the agreement, his statements at the plea hearing, or the evidence of the parties’ negotiations,” Judge Smith writes in the ruling.

In January, the U.S. Attorney’s office charged St. Laurent after he allegedly tried, on three separate occasions, to hire would-be hit-men to gun down a rival mobster Robert “Bobby” DeLuca. But each time the FBI had a wired informant recording the alleged solicitation attempts.

The hit was to go down at DeLuca’s workplace “Sidebar and Grille” in Providence.