It was one thing to do a five-year bid for extortion, another entirely to be facing the 25-to-life sentences of the Rockefeller drug laws or RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Sammy Gravano is on there talking about killing people. I dont like being made a fool of, the judge said. ", But it wasn't just Scarpa's brutality that made him a historic figure in Mafia lore: it turns out he was an FBI informant for most of his years in the mob. Greg Scarpa Family: Columbo Status: Dead. Colombo soldier Gregory Scarpa Jr., the son of a murderous capo nicknamed the "Grim Reaper," has been fighting a legal battle for nearly two decades to overturn his racketeering conviction. Today virtually every important mobster is locked up, including Sonny Franzese, the 93-year-old boss of the Columbo family, who was sentenced to eight years in 2011. ", For Big Linda, the trip with Scarpa to Mississippi was a high point. But the guys presented more than just a cold, distant image to watch; Mafia members interacted with the kids, joked around with them and showed them there were other ways to make it through life. Gregory J. Scarpa Jr. (born April 8, 1951) is an American mobster and former caporegime in the Colombo crime family and government informant. As per published reports, the rejects had ties to the Lucchese, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and DeCavalcante crime families. His longtime FBI handler, Lindley DeVecchio, confirmed the story on 60 Minutes in May. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. Sources say that after his conviction was overturned, he was one of the last men standing in the war-torn Colombo Family to take over the last of Greg Scarpa, Robert Zambardi, and Michael Sessa's crews. Federici, who remarkably appeared in several YouTube video interviews about six years ago (three of which are posted below), was the longtime owner of Park Side Restaurant, a popular Italian restaurant located in the heart of Corona, Queens that his parents opened in 1960 under a different name. ", Eleven months later, Joey was shot dead in a drug deal. "This is hell, my life. 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. 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. Former Assistant US Attorney John Kroger highlights the violent encounter in his memoir. But a year later, a federal appeals court reversed Kormans decision and the full 40-year sentence was reinstated. 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 . Feds Indict 15 Reputed Philadelphia Mafia Members, DEA Report on Carmine Galante Leaked To Media Was Las Vegas Mob Museum Offers A Tour You Can't Refuse. He made good money and rumor has it that he routinely carried $5,000 cash around with him in the event he needed to bribe someone. Joey Scarpa was drawn into his father's life as a teenager . During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. "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. 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).. according to Judge Edward Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Colombo Wiseguy Greg Scarpa Jr. Nearly Beat Luches ITALIANS ONLY: When Colombo Wiseguys Took Over Bro Members Of Colombo War Factions (1991-1993), RIP Tough Tony: Sources Say Elusive Genovese Family Powerhouse Was Official Consiglieri, Bonanno Family War Chest; So Many Coincidences: Christmas 2022 Update, Waterfront Commission Bans Multiple Individuals Over Mafia Ties, Helps Nab Two Genovese "Brokesters". He was Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa, a member of the infamous Colombo crime family. 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Korman also noted that Scarpa Jr. has exhibited signs of early onset Alzheimers or dementia. Amuso was beaten up by Greg Scarpa jr in 1995 while both was in Terre Haute prison because Little Vic said that scarpa sr was a rat. Greg Scarpa was no ordinary mob guy. Luke Joseph Scarpa un attore di 94 anni ( 8 octobre 1928). Getting mired in the drug trade proved fatal to the old-line crime families; it spelled the death of omert, the code of silence that had kept the men out of jail. [4], Scarpa claimed Yousef had spoken to him about plans to bomb an airplane or kidnap an American attorney to declare Yousef's 1996 trial a mistrial. He married Connie Forrest and had four children, maintained a relationship with girlfriend Linda Schiro having two more children, and was introduced to . A judge cited his deteriorating health brought on by a diagnosis of late-stage cancer, Scarpa is currently being held at the Residential Reentry Management (RRM) field office in Kansas City, Kansas, a federally run halfway house. "He really was a very charming guy. James Donovan was killed during a botched robbery in July 2010. The son of an infamous New York mafia hit man and Colombo family captain Gregory Scarpa nicknamed the "Grim Reaper" was convicted on racketeering charges and sentenced to 40 years. A source told us that Dom "offered to work to help society at large, and he has made great strides working with Yehuda Kaploun. 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 . "It was my first time on a plane," she recalls. A judge sentenced him to time served and probatio, Well, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Guatemalato name three places that Dominick Cicale, former Bonanno crime family capo, has visited on business during post-Cosa Nostra life over the past nine years. Stymie was a part of Sammy's crew and was killed by a Colombo associate in Tali's during the early 1980's. Recently Sammy mentioned on his podcast that Stymie had an altercation with Colombo associate McIntosh at a bar. Wiseguy Frank Lino brought this out while on the stand, testifying that he and others each kicked in $100 a month to a family kitty that was to be used to pay legal expenses. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The NYPD linked Greg Scarpa Junior to 24 gangland hits. In 1973 he left his wife to live with her and Little Linda and Joey. Scarpa was born in Brooklyn on May 28, 1928. He worked as an informant behind bars for the FBI to get information from Al Qaeda terrorist and 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youssef. Bruno Indelicato, left, Frank Lino. 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 . The former mobster tipped off officials to a bomb cache that his former prison-mate Terry Nichols had hidden in his home. Prior, he'd been acting underboss of the crime family. (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. In 1983, Scarpa was the mastermind behind a plot to kill Colombo crime family member Sal Cardaci. He planned to live with a sister in Florida. Once a top-ranked member of the Colombo family, he is said to be seriously ill. 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 Greg Scarpa Sr., left, and his son, Greg Scarpa Jr., right, were notorious members of New York's Colombo crime family. [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. In the third Colombo civil war, he sided with Carmine Persico. Scarpa apparently chokes on food so frequently that - as Mr Korman wrote in his decision to grant the release - he has taught himself how to do the Heimlich maneuver on himself. But, as it turns out, being married to the mob, particularly in its declining years, is often a far grittier propositionlonely, dangerous, and squalid. - Joseph Colombo Jr. (26y) . "I do not minimize the evil acts Scarpa committed over the course of his criminal career," Mr Korman wrote. In 1995, when their paths crossed inside Manhattans Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), and after trading insults, Greg Scarpa Junior nearly beat Luchese boss Vittorio (Vic) Amuso to death. Reply Lil-Tokes420 Free John Gotti Additional comment actions . But I just couldn't take it. So one day in 1995 at MCC, Amuso told Greg Jr. that his father was a rat. Every day, Little Linda tries to think of a way to escape what has become of her life, but mob princesses don't get much in the way of job training, and she comes up empty. 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. 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. During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV 'The. Scarpa got the disease in the late 1980s, from a transfusion following a bleeding ulcer. Play it now! This was not Scarpas first attempt to have some time shaved off his 40-year prison term. 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. Scarpa has in recent years asked for early release in exchange for his cooperation with investigators that revealed information related to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing as well as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 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. Connolly is doing life, and Bulger is going to do life . Now they are stuck with each other, seemingly forever, in their prefab corner of Staten Island. "He didn't even know he was hit," recalls Big Linda. 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 . Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' Catch up on the days top five stories every weekday afternoon. Joe Poletto continues his conversation with Greg Scarpa Jr., son of the notorious hitman Gregory Scarpa. 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Prior to Scarpa killing him, Dominic Somma complained to Scarpa Sr. about his son's Gregory Scarpa Jr. regarding a bank robbery. We think we know the women of the mobloud, crude, fond of bling, and indifferent to the crimes that support their families in tacky splendor. Among Scarpas many illnesses behind bars has been a late-stage cancer, for which hes received radiation and chemotherapy and surgeries, including the removal of a tumor that left a hole in his throat. Greg Scarpa Jr. succeeded his father as capo in the Colombo family after his father contracted HIV AIDS following a contaminated blood transfusion in 1986. 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. [2], Scarpa was initially arrested in 1988, charged with racketeering and narcotics offences and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Published: 09:51 EDT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 11:39 EDT, 12 November 2020. 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He had served Brooklyn's Colombo crime family for over 10 years as a capo. At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay. "It was the worst thing that ever happened to me," says Little Linda. Sometime in early August, the Bureau enlisted Gregory Scarpa, the FBI's Top Echelon informant-- who had earlier been contracted to murder the boss of his own crime family-- to go to Mississippi to accomplish what the agents could not. "Putting his family in danger was the beginning of him just going off," says Little Linda, looking over at her son, now 20 and home from college, dozing on the sofa with the television blaring. Members of the Colombo crime family believed Mr Cardaci was an informant. Five years ago, the Brooklyn district attorney's office tried to go after DeVecchio, the FBI agent, for feeding Scarpa information that might have led to murder. The mob scion, whose Colombo enforcer father died in prison of AIDS in 1994, began cooperating with the feds in 1996, after he found himself in a cell on the 9th floor tier of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) the federal jail in lower Manhattan with al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Genovese associate Thomas Poli. Gregory Scarpa, nicknamed the Grim Reaper, often bragged about his part in over 20 killings, though it's suspected he had a part in over 80. [1], Scarpa succeeded his father as a capo in the Colombo family after his father contracted HIV/AIDS following a contaminated blood transfusion in 1986. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? ': Polish leader backs Finland's party-loving PM Sanna Marin saying he is 'very happy that she shared some joy with us', 'It's Tarantino-esque': Bill Maher PRAISES 'Mr. It involves a mobster few American have ever heard of, Greg Scarpa by name, and his not quite as lethal son . A classic coddled mob princess, by her midteens she knew something was terribly wrong. The Instagram post touts an upcoming podcast by former Bonanno capo Dom Cicale. No wonder Tony Soprano was so depressed: the job of don just isn't what it used to be. Joining him on this episode is Larry Mazza who was also a member of the Colombo family as he was a key member of the Scarpa family crew. . 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. 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 . "I kept telling him he was going to be OK, though I knew he wasn't. Scarpa also stated Yousef had people from England scouting the Atlanta Olympic Games. Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' 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. The explosives were recovered. He was a top ranking member of the Colombo crime family and later a criminal informant. Now he is going out of his way to give back. Alite visited Mar-a-Lago which since September 2019 has been the primary residence of the former pr, This story from 2014 is one of the most popular on this siteand we didn't even know it until very recently (for reasons stemming from the fallibility of generalized analytics data.) His son, Gregory, Jr., worshipped him and was slowly drawn into his dark world. According to prosecutors, Scarpa shot Robert DiLeonardi in the head in a secluded area on Staten Island in 1981. He loved playing guitar and writing his own songs. He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV. 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[3][7], In 2005, Scarpa tipped off authorities about previously undiscovered explosives and ammunition buried in the crawl space of the home of Terry Nichols, a fellow prisoner at ADX Florence who had previously been convicted for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. (Is he contemplating those Christmas envelopes?) And through his decades. Scarpa also claimed to have gathered information about Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 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Boss: Thomas DiBella (67y) Soldiers [Reported Direct to Boss] - John 'Johnny Bath Beach' Oddo (69y) 2. Scarpa Jr. shot Frezza in the head at the Scarpa home, the feds said. Little Linda pays the rent with her small salary from selling beer for a wholesaler door to door at restaurants; no one, not even the feds who arrested him in 1992 for murder and racketeering, ever figured out where Greg Scarpa's millions went. "He had a big crew with him and he liked it that way. For nearly 30 years, he had the protection of the FBI and a virtual "license to kill", because he was an informer for two successive FBI agents. Amuso did make disparaging remarks, according to Kroger, but Scarpa Junior did much more than punch Amuso out. By way of background, Amuso had been in prison since his 1991 arrest. In 2016, Korman agreed to reduce Scarpas sentence by 10 years. The war's opening salvo took place in the Scarpas' driveway in Brooklyn, when gunmen from a rival faction opened fire on Scarpa in his Lincoln, just steps away from where he had kissed Little Linda goodbye as she loaded her infant son into her Mercedes. . A pair of Yorkshire terriers yap nonstop at her feet. Scarpa provided the government with information against Yousef. "I work like a dog to put this roof over your head, Ma," says Little Linda. 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). Scarpa Jr has been fighting for two decades now in an . The death of Greg Scarpa came as the American mob itself began its final descent. Gordon gives a pep talk. . Richard had a great appreciation for music. Scarpa made these predictions one month before the Olympic Park bombing and the loss of TWA flight 800. 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