Lawyer Arrested On Murder Charges Allegedly Threatened: Snitches Get Stitches!

Cliches: not the most effective way to make a point.

Snitches get stitches! It may be a cliché from pretty much every gangster movie ever, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be effective. Except when it isn’t. And Massachusetts lawyer Michael Moscaritolo is learning that lesson the hard way.

Moscaritolo and his girlfriend, Lauren Kalil, were arrested Friday in connection with the death of Robert McKenna, who was found dead in his home last month. According to WCVB, the charges against the lawyer are mounting:

Moscaritolo faced a slew of charges, including murder, burglary and receiving stolen property. He was ordered held without bail.

Kalil, who works as a nanny, was charged with hiding evidence and held on $50,000 bail.

Prosecutor Nathaniel Kennedy said the authorities were initially turned on to Moscaritolo by another suspect, already in custody. McKenna was allegedly targeted as a robbery mark, when things took a turn for the deadly:

A second witness confronted Moscaritolo after news of the Marshfield robbery and killing.

“Moscaritolo stated, ‘It’s not what you think. He did it to himself by falling into the picture window,” Kennedy said in court.

McKenna bled to death after fighting his attackers and being cut by broken window glass.

The prosecution’s second witness went to police, after receiving suspicious guns from Moscaritolo. Apparently there is a non-suspicious way to receive assault weapons from an acquaintance, though, to be fair, I have no idea what that would look like.

Kennedy said Moscaritolo days later gave assault rifles to the friend who tipped police.

“They became suspicious of these items, and when inspecting them further saw blood on the handle,” Kennedy said.

Police said they recovered five weapons that were stolen from the crime scene, including an AK-47 assault rifle.

According to police, Moscaritolo threatened the witness with the guns and she went to police.

“He threatened her by saying, ‘Snitches get stitches,'” Kennedy said.

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For the sake of clichés everywhere, I am glad the “snitches get stitches” line didn’t work for Moscaritolo.

Lawyer, girlfriend arrested in gruesome slaying [WCVB]

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