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 . 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. 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. 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. 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. Nonetheless, this is really a petty observation and insignificant because Greg Scarpa Jr. is the focus of the story as the author tells the story through Greg Jr's eyes by prison correspondence. 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 . - Joseph Colombo Jr. (26y) . 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. (Is he contemplating those Christmas envelopes?) Prison informant Gregory Scarpa Jr. claimed that Ramzi Yousef had told him of plans to bomb an airplane or kidnap a US Attorney to cause a . Greg Scarpa Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison on racketeering and murder charges. [4] On March 31, 1996, Scarpa claimed Yousef had sent a bomb through the DHL postal service and also named Abdul Hakim Murad as a co-conspirator in a plan to bomb an airplane several months later. Connolly is doing life, and Bulger is going to do life . Once he shot and killed a guy who was hanging Christmas lights. Photo: Gregory Scarpa, Sr. . After members of their crew killed Cardaci, Scarpa Jr. ordered him buried in the basement of a Bensonhurst store, according to the feds. "He had a big crew with him and he liked it that way. According to prosecutors, Scarpa shot Robert DiLeonardi in the head in a secluded area on Staten Island in 1981. 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 . He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1992 following his conviction on 54 racketeering charges that included nine murders. Scarpa Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison for racketeering and he was recently granted a compassionate release after serving 33 years. Scarpa also claimed to have gathered information about Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 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. Korman cited Scarpa Jr.'s aid in those cases as well as his model prisoner behavior in granting the compassionate release. "The country's first lady asked for the water machine to be placed in that school because she went there as a young girl," Dom said. Do not sell or share my personal information. 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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?). 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. At the time, the former mobster approached the FBI telling them that there was a secret stash of explosives available to Nichols' henchmen who remained free. Defendant. The fast cars are gone, as are the handsome wiseguys lounging in the front room, ordering in Chinese food with stolen credit cards. Consigliere: Alphonse 'Alley Boy' Persico (43y) . While behind bars, the former mobster tipped off federal officials about a cache of explosives found in the former home of convicted Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols. Joe Pesci immortalized a vicious killer in Goodfellas. The Bonanno familys legal defense fund efforts stopped for a while, but when Nose came home, he put it back into effect. Mancuso not on, After a seven-month hiatus, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor was back in business on December 7, when it formally banned multiple individuals from obtaining "gainful" employment on the docks over alleged ties to Mafia figures. 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. 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. 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. Federal authorities also said that Scarpa murdered Anthony Frezza of the Gambino crime family in 1985. 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. "He kept saying, 'I'm fine,' and he had this big hole in this head." 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. certain "inexplicable" things started happening to Scarpa Jr. 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. Every other cooperator is on there and Im not allowed to. Scarpa was diagnosed with late stage cancer during his time in prison. He emerged from the sedan unscathed, but a year later, a dozen men were dead. Where In The World Is Onetime Bonanno Capo Dom Cicale These Days? 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. "I had that growing up, even with all the horror, and I want that for my kids. Leite grew up in New York and knew Alite for a long time. About five years ago, the two renewed their friendship and have grown closer. [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. Genovese associate Thomas Poli. "I thought he was invincible. Gregory Scarpa Sr. Gregory Scarpa was born in Brooklyn New Yok on May 8, 1928, he was raised in the Bensonhurst neighborhood. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. Believe nothing that you hear and only half that you see.. 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. 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. Once Andy proposed Nicky, Nicky went out of his way to express his gratitude to Ruggiano. (Postmarked March 14, 2005)" (emphasis ours). "This is not some glamorous fantasy," says Schiro, known as Big Linda, while her daughter is called Little Linda. 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. The New York Daily News reported that doctors had to remove a tumor from his throat. Underboss: Anthony Abbatemarco (51y) 3. Little Linda, who for decades refused to be interviewed, is still uncomfortable talking about the pain of her past. Nichols is serving a life sentence at the Supermax facility. At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay. Greg Scarpa Family: Columbo Status: Dead. Co-workers at the bureau who had long been uneasy with DeVecchio's methods pushed the case. 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. He was originally due to be released in 2035. 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. Following Mr Cardaci's death, Scarpa ordered for his body to be buried in the basement of a store in Brooklyn. By submitting your email to receive this newsletter, you agree to our. He loved playing guitar and writing his own songs. 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. With a history of psychiatric hospitalizations, Big Linda has nowhere else to go. The truth is, we know very little about this murder, including who pulled the trigger. 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 Federal Judge slammed him with 40 years for racketeering and other crimes, having rejected Scarpa's plea for leniency and downplaying his spying on a known terrorist for the FBI. [2], Scarpa was initially arrested in 1988, charged with racketeering and narcotics offences and sentenced to 20 years in prison. 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. Scarpa is also said to be behind the murder of limousine driver Alfred Longobardi, who authorities say was in a feud with the mobster. In March of 1962, Greg Scarpa was arrested for armed robbery. "Greg bought me a whole new wardrobe. 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. 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In 1935 Greg Scarpa was forced to go work with his dad, delivering coal. He married Connie Forrest and had four children, maintained a relationship with girlfriend Linda Schiro having two more children, and was introduced to . "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 really was a very charming guy. 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 federal Bureau of Prisons halfway house in Kansas City, Kan., records show. 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. 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. "Mikey Nose is a torpedoa killer." The wiseguys patted them on the back, told them they were "good kids," and maybe asked them to watch the cars, Longtime Bonanno wiseguy Anthony (Bruno) Indelicato, 75, who shot his way into the annals of American organized crime, was released from prison on May 20, 2022, as per the BOP inmate locator website. 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. He earned the moniker "the Grim Reaper" because he preferred to do the killing himself instead of jobbing out the task to hit men. Even now, the thought is like another kick to the gut; a stab of anger, then a flood of guilt. 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. 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. 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. For assisting the FBI's anti-terrorism efforts, a Brooklyn federal judge deleted 10 years from the 40-year sentence that Gregory Scarpa Jr., 64, was given in 1999, though Scarpa will most likely die before his release date. James Donovan was killed during a botched robbery in July 2010. 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. He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV. Doctors removed a tumor that left a hole in his throat. His roots are from outside Venice. 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. Bath Avenue Crew founding members. John is the poster boy for turning yourself around. 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. 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). The mastermind of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh, was convicted and executed in 2001. After Scarpas men killed Cardaci, he ordered his body buried in the basement of a store in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. according to Judge Edward Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Bikers Bloodied Up At Least Three Bonanno Wiseguys At Long Island Funeral Parlor, Gang Land Reports. His son, Gregory, Jr., worshipped him and was slowly drawn into his dark world. 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. (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. Answers sell books an, In the 1960s and 1970s, Anthony (Fat Andy) Ruggiano had one of the biggest crews in the Gambino family, and he wanted to keep it that way. Luke Joseph Scarpa apparso in 1 serie e 2 film. 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. 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. One of the guys who donated was a bodybuilder who'd gotten infected by a steroids needle. The wiseguys doled out twenty-dollar bills like they were nothing. 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