Gordon gives a pep talk. He is believed to have committed 24 murders. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. Back then Peter Pasta was an up-and-coming Bonanno associate who "earned" $15 grand a week from bookmaking. "It was my first time on a plane," she recalls. The trial gave her something to do, a purpose, and she liked being a part of the action again. [4][5], In 1999, prosecutors said that Scarpa's tips about Yousef were "a scam" which led nowhere. Nose and his preternaturally bright smile. The mob talks about family values, but there's never really been any of 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. 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He later revealed to a private investigator that the cache of explosives was buried under Nichols' home in Kansas, which turned out to be the case. Breakdown of the Colombo Family provided by FBI CI Gregory Scarpa in July 1973: Administration: 1. The lowest moment came near the end of the seven-month war. The Scarpas were a mafia dynasty led by Greg Scarpa, Sr., a man so addicted to killing that he was nicknamed 'The Grim Reaper'. Mar 17, 2017 - Explore Vincent Gigante's board "Greg Scarpa Colombo Capo" on Pinterest. 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 . 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. "The reality, however, is that Scarpa is a seriously ill man who is unable to care for himself and has little prospect of recidivating.". He followed in his father's footsteps and pursued a criminal career in the Colombo organization. She became afraid of getting close to anyone. 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. Mafia news site. Prior to Scarpa killing him, Dominic Somma complained to Scarpa Sr. about his son's Gregory Scarpa Jr. regarding a bank robbery. 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. 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. Scarpa is also said to be behind the murder of limousine driver Alfred Longobardi, who authorities say was in a feud with the mobster. Linda Scarpa is the daughter of hitman Gregory "Greg" Scarpa and his long-term girlfriend, Linda Schiro. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. 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. The mastermind of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh, was executed by lethal injection in June 2001. 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. Scarpa was also implicated in the 1987 murder of Joseph DeDomenico, who was accused of not sharing the earnings from his crimes with the rest of his crew. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him. 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. [2], Scarpa was initially arrested in 1988, charged with racketeering and narcotics offences and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Scarpa Jr has been fighting for two decades now in an . Little Linda, who for decades refused to be interviewed, is still uncomfortable talking about the pain of her past. US District Court Judge Edward Korman ruled Wednesday that Scarpa will be released. ", Her daughter shoots her a look of pure contempt, black eyes narrowing just like her father's. Once a top-ranked member of the Colombo family, he is said to be seriously ill. Savvy gangland watchers will recall that boss Joe Massino also collected monthly dues from members for inclusion in a legal defense fund. His roots are from outside Venice. 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. 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. Guys like him don't just disappear into thin air. Redirecting to https://www.nysun.com/new-york/from-drop-dead-gorgeous-to-doa/27692 (308) Joe Poletto continues his conversation with Greg Scarpa Jr., son of the notorious hitman Gregory Scarpa. In March of 1962, Greg Scarpa was arrested for armed robbery. 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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. John is the poster boy for turning yourself around. 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. Richard Peter Scarpa, of Bird-in-Hand, PA, passed away on June 11, 2022 at Lancaster General Hospital. 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. [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. (Or fired up the chainsaw, depending on who you believe). During his time in the mafia, Scarpa was connected to several murders. Federal authorities believed Scarpa murdered his associates Robert DiLeonardi in 1981, Anthony Frezza in 1985 and Joseph DeDomenico in 1987, ordered the murder of limousine driver Alfred Longobardi in 1981 and plotted the murder and burial of suspected informant Sal Cardaci beneath a Bensonhurst store. 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. 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. "Hoover was getting a lot of pressure about the bodies not being found," Scarpa's common-law wife, Linda Schiro . [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. Scarpa was the brother of Colombo mobster Salvatore Scarpa, who may have introduced Scarpa to the Colombo family. 30 min FEB 23, 2022 Steve Forbert Interview ~ Part 2 The Scarpas were a Mafia dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Sr., a man so addicted to killing that he was nicknamed "The Grim Reaper." Hes a good friend of mine, the Palm Beach-based investment banker said of Alite. 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. She met Scarpa when she was 17, from a family with less than nothing; he was a made man already and married with four kids. Scarpa also stated Yousef had people from England scouting the Atlanta Olympic Games. Greg Scarpa Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison on racketeering and murder charges. 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 . We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [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. Joseph Amato JR in Bronx, NY Age 39 (1984 or 1983) Home address, vacation, business, rental and apartment property addresses for Joseph. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). The Colombo foot soldier became an FBI informant after convincing his neighbor that the mafia was sympathetic to al Qaedas cause. Gregory J. Scarpa Jr. (born April 8, 1951) is an American mobster and former caporegime in the Colombo crime family and government informant. Hoover certainly knew the Mafia existed in 1964, when he ordered a handsome young killer for the Colombo Family, Greg Scarpa, to travel to Mississippi with an FBI agent to solve the case of three missing civil rights workers from the Congress of Racial Equality. Still, he was killed . Fat Andy, Fritzy Giovanelli, sitting Lenny DiMaria, far right in gray Sonny Franzese He had had around 70-75 guys in his crew, and out of all of them, Andy wanted to straighten out only one, Nicky Corozzo. Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, is serving a 40-year prison term participating in several killings in the 1980s. He was Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa, a member of the infamous Colombo crime family. Sammy The Bull has made mention of his late friend Stymie several times. In the third Colombo civil war, he sided with Carmine Persico. DeVecchio, promoting a book on his relationship with the mobster and its aftermath, told Anderson Cooper that Scarpa had become a close friend. 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. "He didn't even know he was hit," recalls Big Linda. He returned with his eye shot clean out of the socket. Doctors removed Scarpas salivary glands during the surgeries and now he regularly chokes on his food, to the point where he has had to learn to be able to do the Heimlich maneuver on himself, the judge wrote. "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. Bruno Indelicato, left, Frank Lino. 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. according to Judge Edward Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. 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 . 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 . "You know how a home has its own scent?" 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. 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 was originally due to be released in 2035. 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 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 December 2015, Judge Korman issued an order reducing Scarpa's sentence to 30 years in prison due to his tip in the Oklahoma City bombing case. Greg Scarpa, Sr., was born on May 8, 1928 near Venice, Italy and immigrated to the United States with his parents and brother Salvatore at a young age. Occasionally she clicks to the new TV-ratings hit Mob Wives to watch the women, some of whom she's known since childhood and sees in the neighborhood. Genovese associate Thomas Poli. In August of 1980 Persico orders the murder of Colombo soldier Dominick Somma for drug dealing, Scarpa carries out the hit. 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. In 1983, Scarpa masterminded a plot to kill Sal Cardaci, a Colombo family crime figure who was believed to be acting as an informant for federal investigators. She always thought her mother's erstwhile husband, Charlie Schiro, was her father and Gregory (or "Greggy," as she knew him) was just a family friend. "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. 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. Boss: Thomas DiBella (67y) Soldiers [Reported Direct to Boss] - John 'Johnny Bath Beach' Oddo (69y) 2. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in, Please refresh your browser to be logged in, Beloved Jeopardy! 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. "I never thought anything would happen to Greg," she says. He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV, 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.. "He had a big crew with him and he liked it that way. He is the son of notorious hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory Scarpa. He is currently residing at the Brooklyn RRM (a halfway house where he and other Federal offenders receive "community-based services that will assist with their reentry needs.") "Time to shut up.". 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. In 1935 Greg Scarpa was forced to go work with his dad, delivering coal. 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 two wrestled all over the WWF circuit, including an "Indian Strap match" at . 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"After my father proposed Nicky, Nicky went to my father, Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves, Jerry Capeci reporting that in September 1998, Federal Judge slammed him with 40 years for racketeering and other crimes, NYPD law enforcement has specific information directly linking Scarpa Jr. to 24 gangland hits. And through his decades. He was widely considered the most brutal member of New York's most violent, dysfunctional mob family, the man at the center of the Columbo war of the early 1990s. Agents knock on door in Brooklyn. 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.. Korman cited Scarpa Jr.'s aid in those cases as well as his model prisoner behavior in granting the compassionate release. The Grim Reaper pulled out his gun and shot him dead on the spot. One of the guys who donated was a bodybuilder who'd gotten infected by a steroids needle. "I loved my fatherhe was everything to me. Gregory Scarpa, Jr. Nichols is serving a life sentence at the Supermax facility. But a year later, a federal appeals court reversed Kormans decision and the full 40-year sentence was reinstated. He does charity work, gives speeches, and his knowledge is vast. John, he noted, has paid for his crimes. He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV. During his incarceration, he has been diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Defendant. In that way, Scarpa could continue to live the way he was and avoid any and all jail time for his illicit activities. Richard had a great appreciation for music. In 2005, Scarpa and Nichols were housed near each other at the notorious Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado. Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' 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. The judge in Scarpa Jr.'s case took ten years off his sentence for the tip, but an appeals court later reversed that decision. Sammy squashed the issue on behalf of Stymie. 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. Greg Scarpa is Northern Italian. 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