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. 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. He married Connie Forrest and had four children, maintained a relationship with girlfriend Linda Schiro having two more children, and was introduced to . 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. "I used to ask them, 'What do you think he's going to do now, like this?' He eventually revealed the location of the explosives to a private investigator. 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. He followed in his father's footsteps and pursued a criminal career in the Colombo organization. In his decision, Korman wrote that Scarpa has had to learn to do the Heimlich maneuver on himself. He is believed to have committed 24 murders. 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. 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 . 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.) The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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. Korman cited Scarpa Jr.'s aid in those cases as well as his model prisoner behavior in granting the compassionate release. 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.. Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' Scarpa is also said to be behind the murder of limousine driver Alfred Longobardi, who authorities say was in a feud with the mobster. DeVecchio got promoted and ended up leading two organized crime squads in New York; Scarpa got paid $66,000 for the information he supplied over 12 years, and when he was arrested for credit card . During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. His son, Gregory, Jr., worshipped him and was slowly drawn into his dark world. 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. DiLeonardi was killed because he was bragging about bank heists that his men had committed, according to authorities. Scarpa Jr is currently being held at a Bureau of Prisons halfway house in Kansas City, Kansas. Gregory Scarpa Jr., a captain in the Colombo crime family serving a decades-long prison term, was granted a 10-year sentence reduction for information on Terry Nichols, a co-conspirator of the . The NYPD linked Greg Scarpa Junior to 24 gangland hits. "He really was a very charming guy. "Let's not forget he killed people, Maa lot of people," she says, interrupting. Mr. Scarpa is suing Victory Memorial Hospital, where the operation took place, for negligence and malpractice. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. In 1973 he left his wife to live with her and Little Linda and Joey. Cicale briefly mentioned the podcast, Mafia RoundTable, in a recent story we did on some of his legit post-Cosa Nostra doings. 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. She watches her daughter's kids halfheartedly while Little Linda is in Manhattan, trudging from restaurant to restaurant. 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. But really, at this point, I can't imagine how I'd ever get it.". Worst of all, the phone quit ringing, leaving her alone with her website and her memories. Joey Scarpa was drawn into his father's life as a teenager . He became a jailhouse informant and has been granted a compassionate release by a federal judge. 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. 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. 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. "I do not minimize the evil acts Scarpa committed over the course of his criminal career," Mr Korman wrote. The mob talks about family values, but there's never really been any of that. 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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 . Even now, the thought is like another kick to the gut; a stab of anger, then a flood of guilt. 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). Churchgoer Stephen (Beach) DePiro, reputed Genovese soldier. 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According to prosecutors, Scarpa shot Robert DiLeonardi in the head in a secluded area on Staten Island in 1981. Breakdown of the Colombo Family provided by FBI CI Gregory Scarpa in July 1973: Administration: 1. "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. . 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. Several reasons underlie that conclusion, the most significant of which is that Mr. Scarpa is a seriously ill man who, at the age of 69, is unable to care . 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. The Colombo foot soldier became an FBI informant after convincing his neighbor that the mafia was sympathetic to al Qaedas cause. 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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 . ", Eleven months later, Joey was shot dead in a drug deal. Scarpa made these predictions one month before the Olympic Park bombing and the loss of TWA flight 800. 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. 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.. In the third Colombo civil war, he sided with Carmine Persico. The New York Daily News reported that doctors had to remove a tumor from his throat. He appears to have been drawn into the Colombo familythen called the Profaci familyby his older brother, Salvatore, who died in a shooting in 1987.. (Or fired up the chainsaw, depending on who you believe). Scarpa Jr. has since won compassionate release from prison as a result of his failing health and terminal illness. A source told us that Dom "offered to work to help society at large, and he has made great strides working with Yehuda Kaploun. Mikey Nose Mancuso. 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. Took his beating like a man in fairness. Yet, she did not actually know this truth until she was a teenager. (See Peter's Italian Restaurant menu here .) Redirecting to https://www.nysun.com/new-york/from-drop-dead-gorgeous-to-doa/27692 (308) 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. A pair of Yorkshire terriers yap nonstop at her feet. Court papers say Scarpa plans to live with a sister in Florida. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The son of the brutally murdered Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato, a capowho led a doomed faction of the Bonanno family, Bruno was in his heyday a feared stone killer with a legendary appetite for cocaine. 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. After someone threatened Little Linda's brother, Joey, Scarpa headed out to hunt. 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. Members of the Colombo crime family believed Mr Cardaci was an informant. 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. 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.") 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. At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay. In 1962, he was arrested for armed robbery. Bruno Indelicato, left, Frank Lino. The judge in Scarpa Jr.'s case took ten years off his sentence for the tip, but an appeals court later reversed that decision. 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. 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. Even when their husbands are in jail or under indictment, we imagine mob wives ensconced in their own garish version of suburbia, channeling Victoria Gotti with their French manicures, leopard-print stilettos, and cascades of hair. [6] The reduction was reversed upon appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit which reasoned that, although he had provided substantial assistance to the government, the government had the right not to reduce his sentence based on legitimate concerns related to his false statements in the Yousef case. 30 min FEB 23, 2022 Steve Forbert Interview ~ Part 2 During his time in the mafia, Scarpa was connected to several murders. 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).. 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. In 1985, Scarpa Jr. was tasked with offing Anthony Frezza after Frezza murdered a member of the Gambino crime family. Nichols is serving a life sentence at the Supermax facility. 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. 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. (POLICE HANDOUT/AP). Who Fat Andy Loved; John Gotti's Other Side: Anthony Ruggiano Junior, Part FOUR. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had previously searched the home multiple times and the new discovery "embarrassed the F.B.I." "He kept saying, 'I'm fine,' and he had this big hole in this head." The best mob story ever told does not involve Al Capone or Bugsy Segal or John Gotti. 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. Gene Borrello in hot water once again. 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. Borrello, 38, was given a six-month sentence by a judge in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday for participating in podcasts about organized crime and for associating with other criminals while doing so. Gregory Scarpa, Jr. 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. 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 Renee Graziano's ex-husband got a reduced sentence in 2014 because he flipped and testified against tw, How did former Gambino associate John Alite make it inside Donald J. Trumps gilded Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, long enough to be photographed alongside the former president? "He had a big crew with him and he liked it that way. People love John, he said. Brooklyn mafia figure Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, was serving a 40-year prison term for his role in several killings in the 1980s. 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. He was a top ranking member of the Colombo crime family and later a criminal informant. During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Behind bars, Scarpa Jr. turned into quite a rat. Every time he hit her, her mind raced to what her father would have done to the guy. Sammy The Bull has made mention of his late friend Stymie several times. Following Mr Cardaci's death, Scarpa ordered for his body to be buried in the basement of a store in Brooklyn. Catch up on the days top five stories every weekday afternoon. To avoid persecution, he agreed to work with the FBI, beginning a 30-year relationship. Back then Peter Pasta was an up-and-coming Bonanno associate who "earned" $15 grand a week from bookmaking. His original release date was set for 2035. John is the poster boy for turning yourself around. In 2016, Korman agreed to reduce Scarpas sentence by 10 years. 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. 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