Indelicato was one of three masked gunmen who walked into Joe & Marys restaurant in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn one hot July day in 1979 and blasted Carmine Galante at close range while the volcanic, would-be usurper enjoyed a customary, post-prandial cigar. In 2016, Scarpa had his sentence reduced by 10 years after he tipped off federal investigators about a cache of weapons found underneath the former home of Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols (pictured in 2000). In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI filesand exclusive new interviewsto tell the definitive story of Gregory Scarpa Sr., aka "The Grim Reaper;" a Mafia capo, who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying the Colombo crime family as a Top Echelon Criminal Informant for the Bureau. Gregory Scarpa, Jr. is a prison informant who predicted that al-Qaeda would bomb the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and an airplane flying out of New York. The New York Daily News reported that doctors had to remove a tumor from his throat. The judge said that Scarpa has also started to show signs of Alzheimers and early-onset dementia. DeVecchio, promoting a book on his relationship with the mobster and its aftermath, told Anderson Cooper that Scarpa had become a close friend. He said, We can only hope that by time Pagan is released we have prepared him for re-entry into society to mitigate the risk of what would happen if Pagan returned to a life of crime. Sources say Lafaro, who testified in 1988 at the federal racketeering trial of several members of a Colombo family crew headed by soldier Greg Scarpa Jr., also gave police information that ended with Persico being convicted of state drug dealing charges and sentenced to 20 years-to-life. Little Linda, who for decades refused to be interviewed, is still uncomfortable talking about the pain of her past. But in 2008, when an old tape recording surfaced of her telling an interviewer that the agent hadn't done anything illegal, the case fell apart. whose father was also a famous murderous Colombo family associate, took ten years off his sentence for the tip, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. This is all they have, this sheetrocked rental with kids' bikes in the living room and half-empty plastic cups of Arizona iced tea everywhere. Gregory Scarpa, Jr. Prior to Scarpa killing him, Dominic Somma complained to Scarpa Sr. about his son's Gregory Scarpa Jr. regarding a bank robbery. Scarpa initially failed to divulge to the feds the exact location of the explosives, instead showing them an encrypted note written by Nichols. Once he shot and killed a guy who was hanging Christmas lights. But I just couldn't take it. Because of repeated delays in his trial, Scarpa wasn't even hit with a formal sentence until around a decade later, in May 1999, when a Brooklyn. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Co-workers at the bureau who had long been uneasy with DeVecchio's methods pushed the case. Though of course, Amuso had good cause to trot out the "rat" conceit, as Greg Jr's father was indeed a rat (to use the parlance of our times). "He kept saying, 'I'm fine,' and he had this big hole in this head." Yet in 1979 Scarpa agreed to let Linda carry on a torrid sexual relationship with Larry Mazza, a handsome eighteen-year-old delivery boyand later made Mazza his protg, schooling him in the . And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him. "Greg bought me a whole new wardrobe. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The former mobster tipped off officials to a bomb cache that his former prison-mate Terry Nichols had hidden in his home. Cicale briefly mentioned the podcast, Mafia RoundTable, in a recent story we did on some of his legit post-Cosa Nostra doings. Prior, he'd been acting underboss of the crime family. Scarpa began cruising the streets with his crew, looking for enemies. [6] Judge Reena Raggi agreed, ruling that Scarpa had not provided substantial assistance but had actually colluded with Yousef to mislead the government and chose to amend his initial sentence by doubling the length of his imprisonment. ", Her daughter shoots her a look of pure contempt, black eyes narrowing just like her father's. Greg Scarpa Family: Columbo Status: Dead. Rather, one of his close friendsBrazilian businessman Pedro (Peter) Alberto Leite, president of Hichens, Harrison & Co., who is a years-long member of Mar-a-Lagobrought him in as a guest. Harmon: The most compelling and surprising aspect of this story is that of Gregory Scarpa Jr., who was a promising young athlete until, to please his Machiavellian . Greg Scarpa | Killer | Gangster | RAT Gregory Sr. was an infamous hitman for the Colombo family. DeSimone disappeared, meaning there's zero evidence as to how he was killed; in fact, it can't be said with absolute certainty that he was killed. Gordon gives a pep talk. (Curiously, the media release, Turncoat Bonanno associate/former podcaster Gene Borrello has been sent back to jail again for violating the conditions of his supervised release. After someone threatened Little Linda's brother, Joey, Scarpa headed out to hunt. 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Gregory Scarpa Jr., a captain in the Colombo crime family serving a decades-long prison term, was granted a 10-year sentence reduction for information on Terry Nichols, a co-conspirator of the . Sammy squashed the issue on behalf of Stymie. Bikers Bloodied Up At Least Three Bonanno Wiseguys At Long Island Funeral Parlor, Gang Land Reports. In 1981, Scarpa Jr. shot Robert DiLeonardi in the head in a secluded spot on Staten Island because DiLeonardi was bragging to people about bank heists their crew had pulled off, prosecutors said. [3], Scarpa was jailed in Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York with terrorist Ramzi Yousef while the latter was being tried for masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The death of Greg Scarpa came as the American mob itself began its final descent. Joey Scarpa was drawn into his father's life as a teenager . And through his decades on the street, he seemingly never tired of the work. Also named in the $1.5 million lawsuit is the surgeon, who Mr. Scarpa charges botched . Prosecutors recruited Big Linda as their star witness, though she says she told them from the beginning that over the years she'd told people, falsely, that DeVecchio hadn't crossed the line. In his decision, Korman wrote that Scarpa has had to learn to do the Heimlich maneuver on himself. "He didn't even know he was hit," recalls Big Linda. 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They'd never leave New York because everything they want -- a certain lifestyle, basically -- is in New York and cannot be duplicated anywhere else. The people who ask that question have usually heard some version of this story: Desperate to solve the case involving the missing trio, the FBI enlisted their informant, mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr . He earned the moniker "the Grim Reaper" because he preferred to do the killing himself instead of jobbing out the task to hit men. That same year, Scarpa Jr. had his dad and Joseph DeDomenico murder limousine driver Alfred Longobardi, with whom Scarpa Jr. had a feude, said the feds. 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To allowing 3/4 Italians in some instances like Gotti Jr. Had to adjust to the reduction of Sicilian and Italian immigrants to the farm system. Her picture was everywhere: "Mob Wife Lies on the Stand." He didnt need a gun. Greg Scarpa is Northern Italian. Now they are stuck with each other, seemingly forever, in their prefab corner of Staten Island. certain "inexplicable" things started happening to Scarpa Jr. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had previously searched the home multiple times and the new discovery "embarrassed the F.B.I." Gregory Scarpa, Sr. (May 8, 1928 June 4, 1994) nicknamed The Grim Reaper and also The Mad Hatter, was an American capo and hitman for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI. "You know how a home has its own scent?" Behind bars, Scarpa Jr. turned into quite a rat. During the 1990s, Scarpa was sentenced to 40 years in prison for racketeering, but provided the government with false information about terrorist tactics and possible attacks orchestrated by Ramzi Yousef. Greg Scarpa Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison on racketeering and murder charges. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, The former mobster was involved in several murders in the 1980s, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. ", Her mother didn't have such misgivings. He eventually revealed the location of the explosives to a private investigator. I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question. Nichols and Scarpa were both housed at the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado, Nichols helped plan the 1995 bombing of the Albert P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Dom Cicale's podcast will debut next week. Still from YouTube interview with Tough Tony Federici. Through the years he confided to her about everythingthe robberies, the killings, how the bureau let it go on despite the pileup of bodies. Scarpa, 69, a former Colombo crime family boss turned prison snitch he helped the government probes of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is currently at a. In one of his most cold-blooded killings, during the Orena-Persico war, he shot Vincent Fusaro a man he suspected of loyalty to the wrong side in the . In the latest mob rubout to emerge, Scarpa, aided by his son, Gregory Jr., and four others, shot Bari to death after one crew member lured her to a Bensonhurst social club run by Carmine Sessa, another member of Scarpa's crew, according to FBI documents obtained by Gang Land. The Grim Reaper pulled out his gun and shot him dead on the spot. Mr. Scarpa is suing Victory Memorial Hospital, where the operation took place, for negligence and malpractice. Kaploun told us that Dominick has been "a model of redemption since his release." . Genovese Family Captain RALPH BALSAMO and Soldier MICHAEL MESSINA pled guilty before Judge Koeltl on February 9 and are scheduled to be sentenced by him on June 28, 2023. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. While in custody, the FBI approached him and asked if he'd like to work as an undercover informant for them. Breakdown of the Colombo Family provided by FBI CI Gregory Scarpa in July 1973: Administration: 1. . Mafia news site. In 1985, Scarpa Jr. was tasked with offing Anthony Frezza after Frezza murdered a member of the Gambino crime family. Andy and Anthony (Tony Lee) Guerrieri even got into an argument over Fat Andy's reluctance to make any of his guys. Gang Land also reported today that tensions between Mikey Nose and Joe C. ramped up significantly last week, to the extent that there was a big brawl at a Long Island funeral parlor during a wake for Cammarano's father-in-law, Vito Grimaldi. In 1999, Scarpa, who at that time was incarcerated for other offenses after he was tried and convicted a decade earlier, was convicted in federal court for racketeering and other offenses. He had served Brooklyn's Colombo crime family for over 10 years as a capo. After members of their crew killed Cardaci, Scarpa Jr. ordered him buried in the basement of a Bensonhurst store, according to the feds. It also had something to do with betrayal: ex-acting boss Joseph (Joe C) Cammarano tried to take control of the crime family while Mikey Nose was still in prison, according to today's Gang Land News , which reports that details of Joe C's maneuvering against Mancuso came to light via testimony at the Bonanno racketeering trial . Fat Andy "didnt want to make anybody his equal at one point," said Anthony Junior. The dogs scarf down bits of Oreos and chips from the floor. (Postmarked March 14, 2005)" (emphasis ours). Gang Land News's Jerry Capec, Back in 2014, after hearing (and ignoring) the heartfelt pleas of a murdered man's daughter, Brooklyn Federal Judge John Gleeson sentenced Hector (Junior) Pagan to 11 years in prison and offered a thoughtful comment. Gregory Scarpa (May 8, 1928 - June 4, 1994) nicknamed the Grim Reaper and also the Mad Hatter, was an American caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI. Dom Cicale at St. Joseph School for Girls. Episode Website More Episodes And, despite the incessant denials, Federici was a power in the Genov, It is December 2022, the holiday season, and some Bonanno wiseguys are pitching a fit over the mandatory monthly dues demanded by the boss for the family war chest. "Time to shut up.". according to Judge Edward Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The best mob story ever told does not involve Al Capone or Bugsy Segal or John Gotti. Instead of gazing at a banquet-length dining table laden with stolen diamonds and gold, as she did many nights during her 30 years with Scarpa, Schiro clears a place amid the box of Cheez-Its and sleeves of Oreos to rest her elbows and put her graying head in her hands. He offered to decipher the note in exchange for a reduced sentence. The son of the brutally murdered Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato, a capowho led a doomed faction of the Bonanno family, Bruno was in his heyday a feared stone killer with a legendary appetite for cocaine. (POLICE HANDOUT/AP). I, Longtime Genovese family powerhouse Anthony (Tough Tony) Federici, who ran a landmark Queens-based Italian restaurant, died this morning of natural causes, sources tell Cosa Nostra News . she says. Boss: Thomas DiBella (67y) Soldiers [Reported Direct to Boss] - John 'Johnny Bath Beach' Oddo (69y) 2. Brooklyn mafia figure Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, was serving a 40-year prison term for his role in several killings in the 1980s. Scarpa died of the virus in the federal penitentiary in Rochester, Minn., in 1994, at 66, shriveled from his brawny 200 pounds to less than half that. According to reports, the Daily News and Post stories highlighted only the iceberg's tip in terms of the degree to which Scarpa Junior cooperated as well as the amount and . Bath Avenue Crew founding members. 4 Gregory Scarpa and Gregory Scarpa Jr. 3 John Franzese and Michael Franzese; 2 Nicodemo Sarfo Sr. and Nicky Scarfo Jr. 1 Philip Testa and Salvatore Testa; 10 Gerrard Pappa and John Pappa# Gerrard Pappa started out in the Rampers Gang, a notorious street gang that also produced some notable names, such as future Gambino family underboss Sammy . Big Linda spends her days on the computer, an old desktop, scrolling through the website she made about Joey, full of soft-focus snapshots of mother and son, and chatting online with her support group for parents of murdered children. He followed in his father's footsteps and pursued a criminal career in the Colombo organization. He planned to live with a sister in Florida. In 1987, Scarpa murdered another reputed gangster, Joseph DeDomenico, who was suspected of committing lucrative crimes without sharing the proceeds with other crew members, federal prosecutors said. Published: 09:51 EDT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 11:39 EDT, 12 November 2020. His roots are from outside Venice. But a year later, a federal appeals court reversed Kormans decision and the full 40-year sentence was reinstated. Bestselling author Sandra Harmon uses inside access to the Mob, law enforcement, and jailed Mafioso Gregory Scarpa, Jr, to tell "a disturbing, jagged true-crime thriller worthy of prime Hammett, Chandler, or Puzo" (Publishers Weekly).. Since then, Fusco Jr. has been somewhat of an underworld enigma. Tony Lee had wanted to put Anthony (Tony Pep) Trentacosta upto be straightened out with Nicky. Which may be why he was able to elude prison for so long. Psychologist reveals how to slowly reduce feelings of being alone - from saying NO to events you don't want to be at to performing acts of kindness, The Queen has had a jam sandwich every day since she was five years old, her former chef reveals, Berkeley's 'racist' student house which BANS white people from its common room is a 'nest of vipers' where members accuse each other of white supremacy for being white, says resident, Why didn't Scotland Yard share the note on Princess Diana's fear that she would die in a staged car crash? The explosives were recovered. In 2016, Korman agreed to reduce Scarpas sentence by 10 years. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Who Fat Andy Loved; John Gotti's Other Side: Anthony Ruggiano Junior, Part FOUR. It is a lifetime away from the decked-out three-story house in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, the home in Florida, and the apartment Scarpa had use of on Sutton Place. Mikey Nose Mancuso. ", For Big Linda, the trip with Scarpa to Mississippi was a high point. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. He appears to have been drawn into the Colombo familythen called the Profaci familyby his older brother, Salvatore, who died in a shooting in 1987.. Richard was born in Jersey City, NJ, to the late Gabriel and Rose (Calvanico) Scarpa. KORMAN, J. He earned the moniker "the Grim Reaper" because he preferred to do the killing himself instead of jobbing out the task to hit men. In March of 1962, Greg Scarpa was arrested for armed robbery. Linda Scarpa is the daughter of hitman Gregory "Greg" Scarpa and his long-term girlfriend, Linda Schiro. Yet, she did not actually know this truth until she was a teenager. "The heyday of organized crime is definitely over," says George Anastasia, the Philadelphia Inquirer mob expert and author of Blood and Honor, "but you can just look at these women and still see a trail of destruction. I do not minimize the evil acts Mr. Scarpa committed over the course of his criminal career, Korman wrote in his decision on Wednesday. Korman cited Scarpa Jr.'s aid in those cases as well as his model prisoner behavior in granting the compassionate release. "It was the worst thing that ever happened to me," says Little Linda. Worst of all, the phone quit ringing, leaving her alone with her website and her memories. Defendant. Genovese Family Captain NICHOLAS CALISI, Solider JOHN CAMPANELLA, and associate MICHAEL POLI pled guilty before Judge Koeltl on February 8, 2023, and are scheduled to be sentenced by him on June 27, 2023. Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, is serving a 40-year prison term participating in several killings in the 1980s. Every time he hit her, her mind raced to what her father would have done to the guy. The mastermind of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh, was executed by lethal injection in June 2001. And through his decades. 4257 Carpenter Ave, Bronx, NY 10466-Current; 4247 Carpenter Ave, Bronx, NY 10466; 70 Rebecca Ln, Carmel, NY 10512; Po Box 61, Bronx, NY 10473; 13980 85th Dr, APT 2D, Jamaica, NY 11435 "All I want is a real home for my kids," she says over lunch a few days later at Sparks Steak House (her choice), a stop on her beer route, where mobster Paul Castellano was famously gunned down on the sidewalk in 1985. (Yes, this is kind of an unusual story for this blog to publish, we admit.) After being released from prison, Dominick met with a rabbi "who works to better humanity," he said. Gregory Scarpa Sr. 192858199464""The Grim Reaper""The Mad Hatter Colombo crime family capoFBI 19701980 . Court papers say Scarpa plans to live with a sister in Florida. Outside on the concrete stoop, her daughter's kids yell for money to go to Burger King; the sliding doors look out at a strip of asphalt. Even when their husbands are in jail or under indictment, we imagine mob wives ensconced in their own garish version of suburbia, channeling Victoria Gotti with their French manicures, leopard-print stilettos, and cascades of hair. They saw the wiseguys on the street pulling up to the curbs in their big shiny Cadillacs, loafing around social clubs wearing pricey suits and sporting hundred-dollar haircuts and manicured fingernails. The potential recruits included an applicant who is affiliated with Stephen (Beach) DePiro, a Genovese soldier who in 2015 was sentenced to three years and five months in prison after pleading guilty to an extortion scheme that collected kickbacks from dock workers. He also stated Yousef had implied assistance from a foreign government, presumably Qatar, since Yousef's maternal uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was living there as the guest of a cabinet official at the time. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. What no one but father and son knew was that for 30 years, Scarpa, Sr. was an informant for the FBI. Before Massino was arrested for the last time, everyone paid $100 a month for a war chestif someone got in trouble, it was there, one source told us. Once a top-ranked member of the Colombo family, he is said to be seriously ill. They also believe Scarpa was the man who killed Alfred Longobardi, with whom he allegedly had a feud, and Anthony Frezza of the Gambino crime family. The Colombo foot soldier became an FBI informant after convincing his neighbor that the mafia was sympathetic to al Qaedas cause. "The reality, however, is that Scarpa is a seriously ill man who is unable to care for himself and has little prospect of recidivating.". "Mikey Nose is a torpedoa killer." Scarpa, she says, was gentle and generous at home, a classic protective dad with a marshmallow center. 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