by Peter Lance
41. U.S. v. Victor J. Orena, testimony of Joseph Ambrosino, transcript, 807–9.
42. Supervisory Special Agents R. Patrick Welch and Robert J. O’Brien, FBI 302 memo re: debriefing of Joseph Ambrosino, May 24, 1994.
43. Anthony Casso, letter to the author, December 22, 2011.
44. Ibid.
45. Brad Hamilton, “Daddy’s a Death Machine,” New York Post, May 27, 2012.
46. Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O’Brien, Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 11.
47. Arnold Lubasch, “Shot by Shot, an Ex-Aide to Gotti Describes the Killing of Castellano,” New York Times, March 4, 1992.
48. Kurins and O’Brien, Boss of Bosses.
49. Carlo, Gaspipe, 141.
50. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo for Top Echelon (TE) informant designated “NY3461,” December 17, 1985.
51. Carlo, Gaspipe, 145.
52. Ibid.
53. Selwyn Raab, “Defector Says Bomb that Killed Underboss Was Meant for Gotti,” New York Times, January 24, 1995.
54. Peter Maas, Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 208.
CHAPTER 18: I SHOT HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES
1. Philip Carlo, Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mob Boss (New York: William Morrow, 2008), 150.
2. Supervisory Special Agent J. Bruce Mouw and Special Agents George Gabriel and Carmine F. Russo, FBI 302 memo re: Salvatore Gravano, November 25, 1991.
3. Tommy Dades and Mike Vecchione, Friends of the Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case (New York: William Morrow, 2009), 11.
4. Ibid.
5. Ed Bradley, “Ex Mob Boss Points a Finger,” 60 Minutes, CBS News, April 11, 2005; CBS News press release, “Ex-Mafia Boss Anthony Casso Describes Murders,” April 7, 2005, http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-news/releases/view?id=9450.
6. Dades and Vecchione, Friends of the Family, 62.
7. Denis Hamill, “Finally Justice for Victims of Mafia Cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa,” New York Daily News, March 4, 2009.
8. Carlo, Gaspipe, 114.
9. John Marzulli, “2 Cops Who Killed for Mafia: Feds Say Retired Detective Pals Are Linked to at Least 8 Murders,” New York Daily News, March 9, 2005.
10. Press release, “Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes Announces Murder Indictment Against Retired FBI Agent and Two Mob Hit Men in Multiple Murder Cases,” March 30, 2006.
11. “Mafia Cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa Sentenced to Life in Prison,” New York Daily News, March 6, 2006.
12. Benjamin Weiser, “Convictions Reinstated in Mob Case,” New York Times, May 11, 2010; “Appeals Court Upholds NY Mafia Cops Conviction,” Associated Press, July 23, 2010.
13. Dades and Vecchione, Friends of the Family, 191.
14. Author’s interview with Andrew Orena, February 8, 2008.
15. Dades and Vecchione, Friends of the Family, 3.
16. Ibid., 26.
17. Author’s interview with Anthony Casso, September 23, 2011.
18. Supervisory Special Agents Timothy B. Kilund and Kevin P. Donovan, FBI 302 memo re: interview with Judge I. Leo Glasser, August 16, 1994.
19. Jerry Capeci, “Fading Mobster Hits on Pal’s Alibi,” New York Daily News, May 31, 1994.
20. Gregory Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital and Dr. Angelito L. Sebollena, transcript of the deposition of Gregory Scarpa, March 1, 1988, 24.
21. Ibid., 28.
22. Gregory Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital and Dr. Angelito L. Sebollena, transcript of the deposition of Linda Schiro, July 14, 1988, 10.
23. Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital, Scarpa transcript, March 1, 1988, 8.
24. Ibid., 13.
25. U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns (Form 1040s) for Gregory Scarpa, 436 Holton Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 1984–85.
26. Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital, Scarpa transcript, March 1, 1988, 14.
27. Memo from special agent in charge, FBI New York Office, to director, FBI, July 9, 1962.
28. Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital, Schiro transcript, July 14, 1988, 17–26.
29. Ibid., 34.
30. Ibid., 36.
31. Ibid., 52.
32. Gregory Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital and Dr. Angelito L. Sebollena, transcript of the deposition of Gregory Scarpa, August 12, 1991, 52.
33. Ibid., 61.
34. Ibid., 64.
35. Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital, Scarpa transcript, August 12, 1991, 7.
36. Ibid., 8.
37. Mary Tabor, “Settlement in Lawsuit on H.I.V.-Tainted Blood,” New York Times, August 30, 1992.
38. Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital, Scarpa transcript, August 12, 1991, 14.
39. J. B. Alimonti, T. B. Ball, and J. K. R. Fowke, “Mechanisms of CD4+ T Lymphocyte Cell Death in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and AIDS,” Journal of General Virology 84, no. 7 (April 22, 2003), 1649–61. Abstract: http://vir.sgmjournals.org/content/84/7/1649.abstract.
40. Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital, Scarpa transcript, August 12, 1991, 20.
CHAPTER 19: MURDER ON THE OVERPASS
1. Michael Marriott, “The Perplexing Killing of a Drug Agent,” New York Times, March 2, 1989; Mary Engels and David J. Krajicek, “Feds Hunt Killer of Drug Agent,” New York Daily News, March 2, 1989.
2. Robert M. Stutman and Richard Esposito, Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street (New York: Warner Books, 1992), 4.
3. Profile of Everett E. Hatcher, “DEA Agents Killed in the Line of Duty,” http://www.justice.gov/dea/agency/10bios.htm.
4. Eric Pooley, “Death of a Hood: The Bloody End of Big Bad Gus,” New York, January 29, 1990.
5. Eric Pooley, “A Federal Case,” New York, March 27, 1989.
6. Stutman and Esposito, Dead on Delivery, 3–5.
7. Ibid.
8. Author’s interview with DEA Special Agent Michael Levine (ret.), November 30, 2011.
9. Stutman and Esposito, Dead on Delivery, 11–12.
10. Ibid., 13–14.
11. Ibid., 263.
12. Author’s interview with Frank Scarpa, September 13, 2012.
13. Pooley, “A Federal Case.”
14. “6 Charged with Hijacking 870 Cases of Scotch Here,” New York Times, October 10, 1969.
15. U.S. v. Gregory Scarpa Jr., October 13, 1988, transcript, 3087. Greg Scarpa Jr. names himself, his father, Anthony Cappucio, and Sam Weiss, but leaves out Frank Farace and Robert Stasio—another Colombo associate. Stasio was indicted in 1978 for allegedly seeking to sell stolen IRS refund checks. He pled guilty, and his alleged co-conspirator Anthony J. Costanzo was found guilty. U.S. v. Anthony J. Costanzo, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit 625F.2d 465, http://openjurist.org/625/f2d/465/united-states-v-j-costanzo.
16. Special Agents Jeffrey W. Tomlinson and Howard Leadbetter II, FBI 302 memo re: Carmine Sessa, May 29, 1993.
17. Supervisory Special Agents Kevin P. Donovan and Robert J. O’Brien, FBI 302 memo re: debriefing of William Meli, May 26, 1994.
18. Pooley, “A Federal Case.”
19. Engels and Krajicek, “Feds Hunt Killer of Drug Agent.”
20. David J. Krajicek, “Mob Man Scarpa: Gus Not ‘Family,’” New York Daily News, March 5, 1989.
21. Stutman and Esposito, Dead on Delivery, 257.
22. David J. Krajicek, Gotti and Me: A Crime Reporter’s Close Encounters with the New York Mafia (New York: News Ink Books, 2012), 417–548.
23. Krajicek, “Mob Man Scarpa.”
24. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo for Top Echelon (TE) informant designated “NY3461,” March 13, 1989.
25. Stutman and Esposito, Dead on Delivery, 251.
26. Ibid., 253.
27. People v. R. Lindley DeVecchio, testimony of Chris Favo, October 17, 2007, 532.
CHAPTER 20: A CONNECTION BY BLOOD
1. Robert M. Stutman and Richard Esposito,
Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street (New York: Warner Books, 1992), 257.
2. Ibid., 264.
3. “6 Charged with Hijacking 870 Cases of Scotch Here,”New York Times, October 10, 1969.
4. David J. Krajicek, “Mob Man Scarpa: Gus Not ‘Family,’” New York Daily News, March 5, 1989.
5. Stutman and Esposito, Dead on Delivery, 265.
6. Ibid.
7. Joseph P. Fried, “In Plea Bargain, Two Admit Guilt in Mob Figure’s ’89 Murder,” New York Times, September 18, 1997.
8. Alan Feuer, “Mob Leader Is Guilty of Ordering 3 Murders,” New York Times, April 6, 2001; Alan Feuer, “Old-Style Mob Trial for a Murder Case in Brooklyn,” New York Times, March 7, 2001.
9. Stutman and Esposito, Dead on Delivery, 266.
10. Gregory Scarpa v. Victory Memorial Hospital and Dr. Angelito L. Sebollena, transcripts of the depositions of Gregory Scarpa, August 12, 1991, 27, and May 11, 1992, 16.
11. Jonathan Dienst and Shimon Prokupecz, “Mob Members with Ties to 1989 DEA Killing Arrested on Drug Charges,” WNBC New York, August 11, 2011.
12. U.S. v. Victor M. Orena, testimony of Joseph Ambrosino, November 30, 1992, 806, 881, 887–88, 903.
13. People v. R. Lindley DeVecchio, testimony of Carmine Sessa, October 25, 2007, transcript, 1490–91.
14. Supervisory Special Agents R. Patrick Welch and Robert J. O’Brien, FBI 302 memo re: Joey Ambrosino, May 24, 1994.
15. Anthony Casso, letter to the author, December 22, 2011.
16. Author’s interview with Little Linda Schiro, December 4, 2011.
17. Krajicek, “Mob Man Scarpa.”
18. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo for Top Echelon (TE) informant designated “NY3461,” January 20, 1990.
19. Author’s interview with DEA Special Agent Michael Levine (ret.), October 8, 2011.
20. U.S. v. Larry Sessa, defendant Gregory Scarpa Jr., defendant-appellant, No. 1363, Docket 96-1631, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Argued January 14, 1997, decided September 9, 1997. 125 F.3d 68. http://openjurist.org/125/f3d/68/united-states-v-sessa.
21. Todd S. Purdum, “Reputed Mob Figure Fatally Shot in Brooklyn Club,” New York Times, January 16, 1987.
22. Todd S. Purdum, “Puzzle of Gangland-Style Killings Eludes Brooklyn Police,” New York Times, October 10, 1987.
23. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo for Top Echelon (TE) informant designated “NY3461,” March 28, 1989, 5.
24. Robert D. McFadden, “8 Charged with Mafia Drug Plot Including Murders and Extortion,” New York Times, November 13, 1987. The Times piece, which reports that the group charged was “led by Gregory Scarpa Jr.,” goes on to state that “a complaint by United States Attorney Andrew J. Maloney accused the defendants of ‘a pattern of racketeering’ in which ‘each committed at least two acts.’ Among the crimes cited were the murders of Peter Crupi, found shot in Brooklyn Aug. 2, 1985, and of Albert Nacha, found shot on Staten Island Dec. 10, 1985, and beatings and other violence over the last three years.”
25. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Compliance with Attorney General’s Investigative Rules,” U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, September 2005, 6–7; 1982 Final Report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Undercover Activities, at 523 (Civiletti Informant Guidelines section F.2).
26. R. Lindley DeVecchio and Charles Brandt, We’re Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster (New York: Berkley, 2011), 123.
27. People v. R. Lindley DeVecchio, Sessa testimony, 1410.
CHAPTER 21: RUMBLINGS OF WAR
1. Supervisory Special Agents Timothy B. Kilund and Kevin P. Donovan, FBI 302 memo re: interview with Judge I. Leo Glasser, August 16, 1994.
2. Jack B. Weinstein, judgment, memorandum, and order, Victor J. Orena v. United States, March 1, 1997, 29.
3. Ibid., 30.
4. Ibid., 34.
5. U.S. v. Victor J. Orena et al., superseding indictment, 1992, paragraph 22.
6. Arnold H. Lubasch, “Acting Crime Boss Is Convicted of Murder and Racketeering,” New York Times, December 22, 1992. This piece was typical, reporting that “although Mr. Persico selected Mr. Orena as acting boss in 1989, they soon began feuding and Mr. Persico was said to want his son, Alphonse, to take over as boss next year.”
7. Jerry Capeci, “Colombos Set to Play Family Feud,” New York Daily News, September 3, 1991.
8. Special Agent Chris Favo, FBI 302 memo, February 6, 1994, 2. “Over the length of the war I began to withhold information concerning Gregory Scarpa or what could not be leaked to the media because I believe SSA DeVecchio was leaking information to both Scarpa and Jerry Capece [sic].”
9. Weinstein, judgment, memorandum, and order, March 1, 1997, 24.
10. Gregory Scarpa Jr., sworn affidavit, U.S Penitentiary, Florence, CO, July 30, 2002, 3–4.
11. Weinstein, judgment, memorandum, and order, March 1, 1997, 99.
12. Jack B. Weinstein, memorandum and order, Orena v. United States, January 15, 2004.
13. Jack B. Weinstein, judgment, memorandum, and order, Victor J. Orena v. United States, March 10, 1997, 9. “To date, the United States Attorney’s Office, with the critical assistance of the F.B.I. and the New York City Police Department, has prosecuted seventy-five Colombo Family members. Forty of those prosecuted were Persicos, and the rest Orenas. These figures do not include New York State’s prosecutions of Colombo Family members.”
14. United States v. Michael Sessa, transcript of criminal motion before the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, September 24, 2001, 20.
15. Author’s interview with former attorney for Vic Orena, January 3, 2012.
16. Ibid.
17. Dennis Hevesi, “7 Found Not Guilty in Plot Tied to a Mob Family Feud,” New York Times, July 1, 1995.
18. Joseph Gambardello and Patricia Hurtado, “Brooklyn Jury Acquits 7 Accused in Mob War: Jurors Blame FBI Agent for Fueling Feud Through Former Islander,” Staten Island Advance, July 1, 1995; Greg B. Smith, “7 Cleared in B’Klyn Mob Case: Jurors Fault FBI,” New York Daily News, July 1, 1995; Al Guarte, “Wiseguys Acquitted in Colombo Murders,” New York Post, July 1, 1995.
19. Author’s interview with Andrew Orena, Victor M. Orena, and John Orena, February 7–10, 2007.
20. “Lincoln Hall Building Begun,” New York Times, December 12, 1951.
21. Selwyn Raab, Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005), 333.
22. R. Lindley DeVecchio and Charles Brandt, We’re Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster (New York: Berkley, 2011), 198.
23. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo for Top Echelon (TE) informant designated “NY3461,” June 1988.
24. Selwyn Raab, “Mafia-Aided Scheme Evades Millions in Gas Taxes,” New York Times, February 6, 1989.
25. Roy Rowan, “The 50 Biggest Mafia Bosses,” Fortune, November 10, 1986.
26. United States v. Victor Orena, CR-92-351, testimony of Kenneth A. Geller, December 8, 1992, transcript, 1756.
27. Ibid., 1851.
28. Ibid., 1885.
29. Ibid.;United States v. Victor Orena, opening statement of Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann, November 19, 1992, 34.
30. United States v. Victor Orena, cross-examination of Kenneth A. Geller, November 19, 1992, transcript, 2040.
31. Orena brothers interview.
32. Special Agents Jeffrey W. Tomlinson and Howard Leadbetter II, FBI 302 memo re: Carmine Sessa, May 18, 1993.
33. U.S. v. Victor J. Orena, testimony of Joseph Ambrosino, November 30, 1992, transcript, 876–80.
34. Memo from special agent in charge, FBI Newark Office, to assistant director, FBI, August 8, 1967.
35. Memo from special agent in charge, FBI Newark Office, to assistant director, FBI, March 10, 1970.
36. Memo from special agent in charge, FBI New York Office, to direc
tor, FBI. Subject: Gregory Scarpa. Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program, New York Division, September 2, 1971.
37. Memo from special agent in charge, FBI New York Office, to director, FBI. Subject: Gregory Scarpa. Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program, New York Division, July 25, 1972.
38. Addendum: Criminal Investigative Division, April 8, 1987, memorializing an April 3, 1987, teletype requesting payment for “captioned source,” for supplying “extremely singular information which led to 17 Title III intercepts and 50 reauthorizations forming the basis for the prosecution of the Colombo family”; U.S. v. Carmine Persico, No. 84 Cr.809 (JFK), opinion of Judge John F. Keenan denying motions to dismiss, http://www.ipsn.org/court_cases/us_v_persico_1986-09-25.htm.
39. FBI 209 memo, June 17, 1994.
40. Author’s interview with Flora Edwards, November 3, 2011.
41. Arnold H. Lubasch, “Persico, His Son and 6 Others Get Long Terms as Colombo Gangsters,” New York Times, November 18, 1986.
42. Arnold H. Lubasch, “Judge Sentences 8 Mafia Leaders to Prison Terms,” New York Times, January 14, 1987.
43. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo for Top Echelon (TE) informant designated “NY3461,” December 15, 1986.
44. U.S. v. Victor J. Orena et al., superseding indictment, 1992, paragraph 10.
45. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo, February 10, 1987.
46. “Alphonse Persico, 61, Is Dead: Leader of Colombo Crime Family,” New York Times, September 13, 1989.
47. Leonard Buder, “Colombo Figure Given 25 Years on ’80 Charge,” New York Times, December 19, 1987.
48. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo, July 17, 1987.
49. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo, December 3, 1987.
50. R. Lindley DeVecchio, FBI 209 memo, April 8, 1988.
51. Raab, Five Families, 333.
52. Author’s interview with Andrew Orena, September 21, 2011.
53. Raab, Five Families.
54. DeVecchio and Brandt, We’re Going to Win This Thing, 198.
CHAPTER 22: DEATH BY WIRE
1. U.S. v. Victor J. Orena, testimony of Joseph Ambrosino, November 30, 1992, transcript, 856.
2. U.S. v. Victor J. Orena, testimony of Diane Montesano, December 2, 1992, transcript, 1167–69; 1246.
