According to court papers, Scarpa is likely to live out the rest of his days with his sister in Florida. 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. 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. Korman cited Scarpa Jr.'s aid in those cases as well as his model prisoner behavior in granting the compassionate release. Gregory Scarpa, Jr. Scarpa Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in prison for racketeering and he was recently granted a compassionate release after serving 33 years. "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. [2], Scarpa was initially arrested in 1988, charged with racketeering and narcotics offences and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Former Assistant US Attorney John Kroger highlights the violent encounter in his memoir. 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. "He didn't even know he was hit," recalls Big Linda. 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. Genovese Family associate THOMAS POLI pled guilty before United States District Judge John G. Koeltl on September 29, 2022, and is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Koeltl on April 13, 2023. Who Really Killed Tommy Two-Guns DeSimone? 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. 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. (His son Greg Jr. would go on to become a wiseguy, and is now serving a 40-year sentence.) Greg Scarpa was no ordinary mob guy. Bikers Bloodied Up At Least Three Bonanno Wiseguys At Long Island Funeral Parlor, Gang Land Reports. Scarpa also tried to have his sentence reduced by trying to convince federal agents there was a link between the US Mafia and al Qaeda terrorism. 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. "I kept telling him he was going to be OK, though I knew he wasn't. "I do not minimize the evil acts Scarpa committed over the course of his criminal career," Mr Korman wrote. By Anita Busch, Mike Fleming Jr. July 7, 2014 5:17pm. Mafia news site. Churchgoer Stephen (Beach) DePiro, reputed Genovese soldier. Once he shot and killed a guy who was hanging Christmas lights. The dogs scarf down bits of Oreos and chips from the floor. One of Joey's friends also took a bullet; Little Linda sat with him in the back seat of her father's car, holding in his brain matter until the ambulance arrived. "He kept saying, 'I'm fine,' and he had this big hole in this head." The trial gave her something to do, a purpose, and she liked being a part of the action again. Published: 09:51 EDT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 11:39 EDT, 12 November 2020. Korman also noted that Scarpa Jr. has exhibited signs of early onset Alzheimers or dementia. Genovese associate Thomas Poli. He was convicted in 1998 of a large-scale racketeering case that the feds say involved four murders he committed. 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 loved my fatherhe was everything to me. "I work like a dog to put this roof over your head, Ma," says Little Linda. 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. 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. In his decision, Korman wrote that Scarpa has had to learn to do the Heimlich maneuver on himself. [4][5], In 1999, prosecutors said that Scarpa's tips about Yousef were "a scam" which led nowhere. 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). Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' 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. During his incarceration, he has been diagnosed with late-stage cancer. She became afraid of getting close to anyone. (See Peter's Italian Restaurant menu here .) Nowhere can the collateral damage of life in organized crime be more clearly glimpsed than in the faces of Schiro, 65, and her daughter, Linda Scarpa, 42, whose life stories are depicted in the new Investigation Discovery television series I Married a Mobster. "It was the worst thing that ever happened to me," says 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. 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. "I would give up everything just to see Joey's face again.". Gregory Scarpa Sr. 192858199464""The Grim Reaper""The Mad Hatter Colombo crime family capoFBI 19701980 . 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. 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 judge said Scarpa deserved credit for helping investigators. 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. Scarpa, she says, was gentle and generous at home, a classic protective dad with a marshmallow center. A classic coddled mob princess, by her midteens she knew something was terribly wrong. The Colombo foot soldier became an FBI informant after convincing his neighbor that the mafia was sympathetic to al Qaedas cause. 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. 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. 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. 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 . 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. Worst of all, the phone quit ringing, leaving her alone with her website and her memories. 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. Luke Joseph Scarpa un attore di 94 anni ( 8 octobre 1928). 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 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. 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