KORMAN, J. 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. The best mob story ever told does not involve Al Capone or Bugsy Segal or John Gotti. But the enemy knew where his family lived in Bensonhurst in Brooklyn and was waiting for Scarpa that morning as he pulled away from the house. She spends most of her days at the kitchen counter of the rented, sparsely furnished Staten Island condo that she shares with Linda and three of Linda's four children. Gregory J. Scarpa Jr. was born on April 8, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York, to Connie Forrest and Gregory Scarpa, a notorious caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. 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. Fireworks arive and security set up shop ahead of Ben Affleck and JLo's nuptials at his 'plantation' - as guests including Matt Damon arrive in Georgia, Gary Busey is charged with committing sex offenses at Monster Mania fan convention in New Jersey earlier this month, Japanese transgender woman who froze their sperm when they were a man cannot be recognised as the legal parent of the child they helped produce, Tokyo high court rules, 'May he rest in peace! - Joseph Colombo Jr. (26y) . 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According to prosecutors, Scarpa shot Robert DiLeonardi in the head in a secluded area on Staten Island in 1981. (Is he contemplating those Christmas envelopes?) 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? He emerged from the sedan unscathed, but a year later, a dozen men were dead. But before all that he appeared on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares in which he acted very much like the mobster he allegedly was trying to become around the time of filming. Hes a good friend of mine, the Palm Beach-based investment banker said of Alite. His deal fell through after he failed to pass a polygraph test. Once he shot and killed a guy who was hanging Christmas lights. The mob may not be dead, but it certainly is doddering: in a massive January sweep that arrested 125 mobsters across the country, the six leaders caught in the net had an average age of 72. When his father was ill with AIDS and facing arrest, he convinced his son to confess to his crimes, promising that he and DeVecchio, an FBI agent working with Greg Scarpa Sr., would make sure he did not get sentenced to more than a couple of years at a prison close to home. He was already incarcerated in another case before that. For all the body count of the mob war, the friends gone, the possessions lost, Greg Scarpa's tortured endthat's what finally broke both Lindas. Whitey was convicted a few weeks ago of 11 murders that were a result of intelligence leaked to him by John Connolly, his contacting agent. Scarpa Sr., who died in 1994, had been, Anyway, Greg Scarpa Jr., sought to defend his father.But then Amuso apparently opted to take a more direct shot at Scarpa Jr., saying: "The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.. Where In The World Is Onetime Bonanno Capo Dom Cicale These Days? Prior to Scarpa killing him, Dominic Somma complained to Scarpa Sr. about his son's Gregory Scarpa Jr. regarding a bank robbery. Diamond mine in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone that Do, Defense lawyers using the "musical consiglieris" defense in the courtroom apparently wasn't the only reason why Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, boss of the Bonanno family, took the drastic step of expelling (aka shelving) his own acting boss and three others from the crime family back in 2019. 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. He was Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa, a member of the infamous Colombo crime family. according to Judge Edward Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Since then, Fusco Jr. has been somewhat of an underworld enigma. Greg Scarpa Jr. has been in prison even longer than Amuso, since 1988. While the elusive Federici long claimed he was retired from the position of capo in the nation's most powerful Mafia clan, the Genovese crime family, sources say Tough Tony, aka Tony Park Side, was part of the Genovese crime family's formal hierarchy, holding the position of official consiglieri, at the time of his death. June 22, 2017 A New York federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a lower court judge had overstepped his authority by shaving 10 years off the sentence of a Brooklyn mobster who, while. The fast cars are gone, as are the handsome wiseguys lounging in the front room, ordering in Chinese food with stolen credit cards. [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. "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. "He had a big crew with him and he liked it that way. Which may be why he was able to elude prison for so long. 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. Greg Scarpa Jr. Mafia Son Part #1 The Real Gambino Family 49.7K subscribers Subscribe 2.6K 376K views 2 years ago Greg Scarpa Jr. Mafia Son Part #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEZx8.. 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. As per published reports, the rejects had ties to the Lucchese, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and DeCavalcante crime families. Trailer added below An unassuming Instagram post will lead curious mob watchers to some potential intrigue, assuming they value recent Bonanno crime family history. Savvy gangland watchers will recall that boss Joe Massino also collected monthly dues from members for inclusion in a legal defense fund. The 1950's were a busy time for Scarpa. He planned to live with a sister in Florida. 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Andy and Anthony (Tony Lee) Guerrieri even got into an argument over Fat Andy's reluctance to make any of his guys. Pagan's official reentry date is April 18, 2021. 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. He had served Brooklyn's Colombo crime family for over 10 years as a capo. Members of the Colombo crime family believed Mr Cardaci was an informant. 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. 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. Greg Scarpa was no ordinary mob guy. "This is not some glamorous fantasy," says Schiro, known as Big Linda, while her daughter is called Little Linda. 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 She became afraid of getting close to anyone. Gregory J. Scarpa Jr. (born April 8, 1951) is an American mobster and former caporegime in the Colombo crime family and government informant. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him. What no one but father and son knew was that for 30 years, Scarpa, Sr. was an informant for the FBI. Members of the Bath Avenue Crew were as young as 8 years old when they began to align themselves with the biggest, baddest gang in America: Cosa Nostra, specifically the Five Families. 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. In 1962, he was arrested for armed robbery. "This is hell, my life. Still from YouTube interview with Tough Tony Federici. Episode Website More Episodes "He really was a very charming guy. But a year later, a federal appeals court reversed Kormans decision and the full 40-year sentence was reinstated. Joseph Amato JR in Bronx, NY Age 39 (1984 or 1983) Home address, vacation, business, rental and apartment property addresses for Joseph. The Instagram post touts an upcoming podcast by former Bonanno capo Dom Cicale. Stallone will star as Gregory Scarpa, a former capo and enforcer (hitman) for the Colombo crime family known as the Grim Reaper. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). 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. [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. Each faces up to 20 years in prison, according to a media release fromthe U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York. 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. Scarpa Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison for racketeering and he was recently granted a compassionate release after serving 33 years. ", For Big Linda, the trip with Scarpa to Mississippi was a high point. Cicale briefly mentioned the podcast, Mafia RoundTable, in a recent story we did on some of his legit post-Cosa Nostra doings. 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.) Between Scarpa's cancer diagnosis, his trouble eating, and the signs that he's developing Alzheimer's, Mr Korman determined it was best to let the former mobster out. Defendant. 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Early this morning, FBI agents and partner law enforcement officers began arresting nearly 130 members of the Mafia in New York City and other East Coast cities. Mr Korman attempted to reduce Scarpa's sentence by 10 years to reward him for helping investigators, but a federal appeals court reversed the ruling and reinstated the 40 year sentence. He returned with his eye shot clean out of the socket. A classic coddled mob princess, by her midteens she knew something was terribly wrong. 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. 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The FBI used Scarpa to gather intelligence for a short time, but eventually dismissed his theory as a hoax after he failed to produce useful intelligence. 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. 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. Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, who was once a top-ranked member of the Colombo organized crime family, will be released from federal custody after a judge granted him compassionate release. 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. "It was my first time on a plane," she recalls. 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. Greg Scarpa | Killer | Gangster | RAT Gregory Sr. was an infamous hitman for the Colombo family. The judge said that Scarpa has also started to show signs of Alzheimers and early-onset dementia. I do not minimize the evil acts Mr. Scarpa committed over the course of his criminal career, Korman wrote in his decision on Wednesday. "The reality, however, is that Scarpa is a seriously ill man who is unable to care for himself and has little prospect of recidivating.". In 2016, Korman agreed to reduce Scarpas sentence by 10 years. [4], In November 2020, Judge Korman granted Scarpa a compassionate release from prison. [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. He was a top ranking member of the Colombo crime family and later a criminal informant. The mastermind of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh, was executed by lethal injection in June 2001. Korman cited Scarpa Jr.'s aid in those cases as well as his model prisoner behavior in granting the compassionate release. In the third Colombo civil war, he sided with Carmine Persico. "I used to ask them, 'What do you think he's going to do now, like this?' Indelicatos efforts to protect the familys boss paid dividends: Indelicato was among a slew of Bonanno soldiers elevated to capo by a grateful Philip (Rusty) Rastelli in the wake of the Galante hits. "I would give up everything just to see Joey's face again.". Sammy Gravano is on there talking about killing people. I dont like being made a fool of, the judge said. The 62-year-old prosecution witness, a longtime belle of deceased Colombo crime family captain Gregory "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa Sr., described three decades of sitting in on mob meetings where murders and other crimes were plotted and discussed. Little Linda, who for decades refused to be interviewed, is still uncomfortable talking about the pain of her past. 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. But Cosa Nostra being Cosa Nostra, it wasn't longa couple of yearsbefore Bruno, Four members and two associates of the Genovese crime family have now pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on Thursday, February 9. He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV. Gregory Scarpa Jr was granted a compassionate release from prison after being diagnosed with late stage cancer. A convicted Brooklyn mafia figure serving a 40-year prison term for his role in several killings in the 1980s and who later became a jailhouse informant has been granted a compassionate release by a federal judge as he is said to be seriously ill. Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, who was once a top-ranked member of the Colombo organized crime family, will be released from federal custody, the Brooklyn-based US District Court Judge Edward Korman ruled on Wednesday. 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. A pair of Yorkshire terriers yap nonstop at her feet. "In the end I used to wheel him out to the yard in his chair, and the guards would be all around us," recalls Big Linda. 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. 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. Play it now! In what is hard not to see as divine retribution, he had insisted the blood come from his foot soldiers; he was afraid of AIDS in the hospital blood supply. After someone threatened Little Linda's brother, Joey, Scarpa headed out to hunt. He offered to decipher the note in exchange for a reduced sentence. 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. In the 1950s, Scarpa married Connie Forrest; she and Scarpa had one daughter and three sons, including Gregory Scarpa Jr. Greg Jr., who would follow his . Nose and his preternaturally bright smile. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Brooklyn mafia figure Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, was serving a 40-year prison term for his role in several killings in the 1980s. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. He offered to try and decipher the code in exchange for a reduced sentence, but the deal fell through after he failed a polygraph test. Scarpa initially failed to divulge to the feds the exact location of the explosives, instead showing them an encrypted note written by Nichols. In 2005, Scarpa and Nichols were housed near each other at the notorious Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado. DeVecchio, promoting a book on his relationship with the mobster and its aftermath, told Anderson Cooper that Scarpa had become a close friend. (Postmarked March 14, 2005)" (emphasis ours). 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 judge in Scarpa Jr.'s case took ten years off his sentence for the tip, but an appeals court later reversed that decision. . The Scarpas were a Mafia dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Sr., a man so addicted to killing that he was nicknamed "The Grim Reaper." "I kept telling him he was going to be OK, though I knew he wasn't. So one day in 1995 at MCC, Amuso told Greg Jr. that his father was a rat. Scarpa Jr. lunged at Vic and repeatedly banged his head against a metal bed frame, then cracked him over the skull with a heavy porcelain bowl (presumably the toilet?). According to our generally reliable sources, Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, 67, has been taking $200 a month from each and every Bonanno. Catch up on the days top five stories every weekday afternoon. The death of Greg Scarpa came as the American mob itself began its final descent. Consigliere: Alphonse 'Alley Boy' Persico (43y) . Luke Joseph Scarpa un attore di 94 anni ( 8 octobre 1928). 30 min FEB 23, 2022 Steve Forbert Interview ~ Part 2 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 was convicted on federal racketeering charges in 1999 while incarcerated for other crimes. Her picture was everywhere: "Mob Wife Lies on the Stand." In 1983, Scarpa was the mastermind behind a plot to kill Colombo crime family member Sal Cardaci. The reality, however, is that Mr. Scarpa is a seriously ill man who is unable to care for himself and has little prospect of recidivating.. So valued was hethe bureau used his information to nail dozens of his rivalsthat in 1964, when J. Edgar Hoover couldn't locate the bodies of the three murdered Freedom Riders, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, he sent Scarpa to beat the information out of Ku Klux Klan members (it worked). They'd never leave New York because everything they want -- a certain lifestyle, basically -- is in New York and cannot be duplicated anywhere else. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. 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. "I work like a dog to put this roof over your head, Ma," says Little Linda. Gregory Scarpa, Jr. Churchgoer Stephen (Beach) DePiro, reputed Genovese soldier. Sure, being Greg Scarpa's daughter had its perksrestaurant tables materialized and tabs evaporated, the kids on the street grew silent as she passed, shopkeepers just "gave you stuff," but when she had even a minor beef with someonea boyfriend, a valet at the clubthe guy disappeared or turned up battered. But I just couldn't take it. Gregory J. Scarpa Jr. (born April 8, 1951) is an American mobster and former caporegime in the Colombo crime family and government informant. 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. 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 . Ailing Brooklyn mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr. caught a break Wednesday when a judge ended his 32-year prison stretch on racketeering murder charges by ordering his compassionate release. Bath Avenue Crew founding members. John is the poster boy for turning yourself around. His resume included scores of unsolved murders, which earned him the moniker "angel of death." Scarpa was not only a mafioso but an FBI informant. Her three youngest kids are the product of a relationship she had after her father and brother died, with a man who was arrested dozens of times for beating her. 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. (See Peter's Italian Restaurant menu here .) As they act out the traditional Kabuki of mob-wife life, clawing at each other, throwing back pia coladas, and hopping into their shiny cars, she wonders if, late at night, once the camera crew has headed back to Manhattan, they think about the crimes the men in their lives have committed, the drugs on the street, where the money that paid for their granite kitchen counters came from, the mothers without sons. Joey Scarpa was drawn into his father's life as a teenager . Reply Lil-Tokes420 Free John Gotti Additional comment actions . I do not minimize the evil acts Mr. Scarpa committed over the course of his criminal career, wrote Brooklyn Federal Judge Edward Korman in ordering Scarpas release. After Scarpas men killed Cardaci, he ordered his body buried in the basement of a store in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. One of the guys who donated was a bodybuilder who'd gotten infected by a steroids needle. After members of their crew killed Cardaci, Scarpa Jr. ordered him buried in the basement of a Bensonhurst store, according to the feds. Gregory Scarpa, known as "Grim Reaper," was the most feared gangland enforcer in New York and executioner for one side of an internal war in the Colombo crime family. [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. In those sessions, Scarpa Jr. made an abrupt about-face, owning up to his role in the Bari killing and that of Colombo soldier Joseph "Joe Brester" DeDomenico in 1987, after denying involvement. Joe Poletto continues his conversation with Greg Scarpa Jr., son of the notorious hitman Gregory Scarpa. Just two guys from Queens chatting. ", 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. Scarpa has asked for early release in the past on the grounds that he insisted investigators in with information relating to the Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. "Let's not forget he killed people, Maa lot of people," she says, interrupting. Scarpa Jr has been fighting for two decades now in an . It has been acknowledged that he was in fact an Italian-American n 1979, he feuded with Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, who broke Strongbow's leg. .more Get A Copy Genovese associate Thomas Poli. To her, it was just another humiliation in a life full of them. While housed in 2005 at Colorados Supermax federal prison, Scarpa learned from fellow inmate and Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols the location of some explosives hidden in Nichols home. Every other cooperator is on there and Im not allowed to. In that way, Scarpa could continue to live the way he was and avoid any and all jail time for his illicit activities. "I had that growing up, even with all the horror, and I want that for my kids. In healthier times, Scarpa Jr. whose father was also a famous murderous Colombo family associate was a high ranking member of the crime family, often requesting permission from leaders to kill perceived enemies. 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