Uvino ran extensive card games across the Island, along with operations extending as far as Connecticut and Las Vegas, according to court records. Imbergamo was a friend of Minerva's who was not involved in organized crime. Almost immediately, a list was passed around for the first four men who were to replenish the dwindling ranks of New York's smallest crime family.Those four men were; Dino Calabro, 33, who had 'made his bones' numerous times over through the murders of John Minerva, Ralph Dols, William Cutolo and Joe Miccio. Andre D'Apice, 26, a second-generation mobster and cousin of the Persico clan. Anthony Stropoli, 37, a New Jersey bookie and white-collar criminal involved in lucrative stock scams. Luca DiMatteo, 55, a old-timer and longtime associate under Ralph Lombardo.With that, the decina of Tommy Gioeli swelled to eleven active members by the Spring of 2000 (twelve, if you include imprisoned-for-life Joe Monteleone) according to comprehensive mob researcher JD (lcnbios.blogspot.com). In 1993, one of Orena's last remaining allies, Joseph Scopo, was killed and Orena was sentenced to life in prison. In 1989, the imprisoned Colombo boss Carmine Persico appointed Orena to be his temporary acting boss. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. How is Thomas Gioeli managing to post about life behind bars? His projected release date is May 7, 2024. The president was criticized for being too hands off on Obamacare repeal, both in persuading members of Congress to support the final effort and in crafting what that final effort looked like. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. Unlike Sonny, whose rackets extended from card games in Long Island to strip joint shakedowns in Manhattan, Gioeli downplayed his criminal prowess. Former Colombo crime family acting boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to 18 years in prison for a slew of racketeering and murder conspiracy raps. You really think 17 years though, Dino? I'm going to hell, said Gioeli to a fellow gangster after accidentally slaying a nun according to court documents. Dec 30, 1991 - Murder attempt on Persico Loayalist Greg Scarpa Sr with his Daughter and grandaughter in the car. The wheels kept on turning in the world of organized crime. A mobster's wish of giving his daughter away at her wedding doesn't have the feds' blessing. "Go ahead and charge me with nun's murder, Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli rants in prison blog". He arranged a sitdown with Gambino ruling panel member Danny Marino to finally put Daniel Bogan's loans to bed, and split his crew between his longtime acting capo - Paul' Paulie Guns' Bevacqua - and old pal Joseph' Junior Lollipops' Carna. Gioeli was cleared of the Cutolo and Dols murders, but convicted of racketeering conspiracy to commit murder in the Minerva and Marasa cases. Gioeli and his crew were able to last years avoiding arrest, even after police raided Dino Saracino's apartment on March 4, 2005, seizing nine illegal guns. The acting boss was always one step ahead of the feds too, unlike his long-suffering underboss. Since Andy Mush had just been arrested on bribery charges that year, Gioeli became an on-record associate of his acting capo & nephew Anthony 'Chucky' Russo, who was so close to Mush that he was frequently mistaken by Greg Scarpa as his son. I want you to behave," according to attendee Reynold 'Ren' Maragni. Calabro may have also had beef-by-association with the Bonanno crime family, thanks to an unpopular crew member he inducted in a Sheepshead Bay apartment in 2005. "Yes I will. Following Cacace's promotion from consigliere to acting boss in October of '99, a little-known Queens capo named Ralph Lombardo, 69, was promoted to 'acting consigliere.' The Dols murder was committed because the officer married a woman that had married Colombo family members three times before. 2023 New York Public Radio. ", It wouldn't be until later the following year that Gioeli finally stepped into Cacace's shoes to officially serve as "captain of all captains," as Joe Competiello called him. Soldier Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello, 36, charged with the Marasa hit. Associate Joseph DiGorga, 67, charged with being a muscleman for Sonny Franzese. Associate Orlando 'Ori' Spado, 63, a Los Angeles-based gangster charged with cocaine dealing and an L.A. home invasion. Associate Angelo Giangrande, 55, a restauranteur charged with shaking down a rival pizzeria with Catapano. Associate John Capolino, 39, Franzese's nephew, charged with being a muscleman for Uncle Sonny. Associate Nicholas Bova, 31, charged with hydroponically growing weed for Catapano. Associate Christopher Curanovic, 26, a leg-breaker for Franzese with ties to Eastern European organized crime. He has been remanded for more than three years to the starkly real Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, but he periodically manages a virtual escape into cyberspace, thanks to a restricted email system provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons and to the untiring efforts of a devoted daughter. His protg and driver, Gaetano' Guy' Fatato, began wearing a wire in late 2005 and tipping the feds off about high-profile meetings Sonny was having with mob officials in several Long Island eateries. Also released from prison during this timeframe was Carmine Persico's nephew, Theodore' Skinny Teddy' Persico Jr., who partnered up with his in-law (and former rival) Tom Petrizzo into the construction, demolition, and the trucking industries. Zuraw, who had no ties whatsoever to organized crime, was hanging shirts in a closet and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Meanwhile, Gioeli's blog, written by his daughter, complained about the photos and their source earlier this year asking "how can [the Feds] call someone [Calabro] who could be so vindictive and deceitful to their own best friends a credible source?" The next meeting they had was when Tommy Gioeli flew down to the Sunshine State shortly after the Christmas holidays to escape the grueling New York winter. [14][15] On March 19, 2014, Gioeli was sentenced to 18 years and 8 months in prison and ordered to pay $360,000 in restitution. March 27, 1992 - Persico loyalists Thomas (Tommy) Gioeli and Joseph (Joe Monte) Monteleone are seriously wounded by survive . Sonny believed him." ", Then, Bogan got himself into more beef with Gambino gangsters John 'Johnny G' Gammarano and William' Big Billy' Scotto over a $17,000 loan that Bogan gave to an unidentified victim, according to Febbraro's 2012 sentencing memo. "You're gonna have to plea out? The pool is getting a new liner, gutter and deck, along with new filtration systems. They conducted the ceremony as usual despite the boss' absence; Ren put his hand on a gun, he got his finger pricked, and a saint was burned in his hand. Apart from a 1974 stock fraud conviction, the cautious wiseguy had avoided any prosecutions in his lengthy tenure in the Borgata. He was released from prison in January 2004 after serving time for a probation violation - restrictions which would not end until 2020, and which would constantly set back his career of crime. ", For the time being, Tommy Gioeli's composure and presentation seemed to work, at least for Little Dino Saracino. Soldier Frank 'Frankie Camp' Campione, 65, a close friend of Sonny Franzese who got a bit too chatty with Sonny's son. In the mid-1980s, Gioeli was imprisoned for robbery, his first incarceration. Soon enough, Dino moved him and his family from Bensonhurst to a Farmingdale property adjacent to Tommys, and made his portly mentor the "godfather" of his children. Watch your innocent brothers die in jail; you will be safe and they will be tyrants! By 1989, the 36-year-old Tommy was amassing an array of Joker-Poker machines; illegal video gaming devices which he would install (forcibly or otherwise) in local establishments from Brooklyn to Long Island. Instead, he and his crew would stick together and battle the feds if they were indicted. This robbery was especially crucial since it was pulled off to fund the upcoming wedding between Big Dino and his girl Andrea. You see, the photos were obtained from the Gioeli's Long Island house by Andrea Calabro, wife of Dino "Big Dino" Calabro, as a way to curry favor for her hubby with the Feds. But even the tens of thousands in weekly & monthly tribute wasn't enough to stop the Saracinos from dabbling into drugs again, something which they had been involved in with their other brother, Frank, back in the 1990s. Gang Land News, correctly, predicted that the case against Sonny was just the beginning of the feds' onslaught on the crime family. When Calabro hooked his own crew members to coffee boy jobs, he'd take a hefty fifty/fifty cut, he told the feds. The other three members of the hit team were Vincent 'Jimmy' Angelino, John Minerva, and Frankie Blue Eyes Sparaco. "I'm saying, D, it's that bad?" Tommy Shots also arranged for the mugging of a drug dealer; he organized Big Dino and Richie Greaves to enter the dealer's house as flower deliverymen. Besides, Massino pointed out; "he has gotta be 87! In fact, Tommy Gioeli even rented out a warehouse in Long Island to store hot goods that came from swiped trailers, such as one stolen from the Macy's Long Island parking lot at Massapequa Mall. This wasn't Caves' first time protecting the honor of his boss' family. Truckloads of loot were regularly taken from one particular L.I. He would frequently stop when he drove and take bizarre routes to seemingly mundane locations. The charges against 59-year-old Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli include six murders, among them the killing of a police officer. Gioelis wife and at least one of his daughters sat in the courtroom as admitted capo and hit man Big Dino Calabro took the stand as the governments star witness. La rgion n'est pas forcment la plus souriante du monde et les groupes de mtal qui y prosprent donnent volontiers dans l'extrme . Because they feel that Joe Waverly, they don't know what's gonna happen with Joe Waverly. One way or another, Tommy Machines took an instant liking to the Sicilian-born car thief, and Calabro felt the same way. The victim of the crime, Sister Mary Adelaide, was wounded by pieces of a shotgun blast that hit her home's front door and walls. It was a typed list Tommy had made downstairs in his basement on his computer, capo Dino Big Dino Calabro would testify after he became an informant. It was May of 2008. A series of family snapshots showing an alleged Colombo mob boss interacting with members of his crime family have taken center stage in the case against Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli. Reynalda, this is Tommy Gioeli amigo nostro, acting boss of the Colombo family." How long more does he got to live?" The closure of the Persico case meant the FBI could now focus their full attention on Gioeli. Therefore, following his ceremony, Calabro was not placed in Tommy Gioeli's crew, but in Ralph Lombardo's Middle Village decina. Almost as soon as he was inducted, however, he was officially "shelved" from family affairs after his son, Junior, got into some serious debt with the wrong wiseguys. Judgement day for Gioeli was 6:00am on June 4, 2008, when a seventeen-count indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court charging the following mobsters with racketeering crimes: Acting Boss Thomas 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli, 55, who was charged with the 1992 double murders of John Minerva and Michael Imbergamo, and the 1991 murder of Frank 'Chestnut' Marasa. Underboss John 'Sonny' Franzese, 89, charged with a hefty list of loansharking and extortion charges stemming from the taped conversations he had from 2004-2007 with son his John Franzese Jr. and Gaetano 'Guy' Fatato. Capo Dino Calabro, 41, also charged with the Minerva/Imbergamo hits, the Marasa hit, and the accidental 1992 murder of Carlos Pagan he witnessed with turncoat Bonanno associate Anthony Basile. Acting Capo and Franzese's nephew Michael Catapano, 42, charged with shaking down Long Island establishments, growing cannabis, and selling cocaine. David Gordon, an associate and confidante of Saracino's since the 1990s, was hit with a series of subpoenas in early 2008 for photographs, fingerprints, documents, and testimony relating to the Colombo crime family. Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. Gioeli has is alleged to have participated in several high-profile crimes from the 1980s including the murder of a Catholic nun and off-duty NYPD cop. Paul 'Paulie Guns' Bevacqua, 61, a Long Island-based aide of Gioeli. Feds even took an old press pass for Nightlife Magazine, which granted the then-soldier with "all press privileges." His job was to "get close to Lombardo" and whack him, according to court documents uncovered by Gang Land News on May 26, 2011. Calabro testified that Gioeli had been something of a mentor, advising him on how to kill. . The first album by the new band OUT OF THIS WORLD. But, sources said, John Jr. tearfully denied Capeci's allegations (which were backed up by various law enforcement sources), according to the May 2007 article." It wasnt made clear why Joe the Banker deserved such an attack; all Calabro remembers was that Gioeli raved about the victim as being a dirty old man. Regardless, the message was clear; Gioeli now had a crew of young and able hoodlums beneath him that didnt hesitate to get their hands dirty. Prosecutors have struck down Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli's request for a prison furlough in order to attend his daughter Julia's wedding on Dec. 2. My saintly elderly mother who just buried my father, my poor wife, my precious children, my priests, the rest of my family, friends and the people I just know he wrote. In fact, Peraino Sr. and his brother Louis had indeed been convicted the month prior in Miami of conspiracy to distribute pornographic films, and the pair were on bail awaiting sentencing. And, when burying a victim, the standard practice was to dump in a bag of lime. When he wasn't being schooled on crime by Gioeli and Calabro, The Rock could be found at a candy store called "The Corner" on 75th St. and 20th Ave. Gioeli, at least a decade older than his underlings, became almost like a surrogate father for the group and schooled the delinquent teens on how to stick up stores, burglarize banks, and pull off home invasions. The feds issued dozens of grand jury subpoenas to Tommy Shots, Dino Calabro, Saracino, and others connected to the Cutolo slaying. He's totally low-rent.". Scarpa explained that the murder attempts were a culmination of several incidents that left the Perainos in poor standing with the mob. Minerva was murdered because he was a Colombo soldier with the Orena faction. That's fucked up, 17 years, D." Little Dino confirmed that he was looking at that sort of time for his crimes. Once they were safely inside, they whipped out guns, handcuffed the occupants, and stole a safe filled with drugs and cash. Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli had his request for a prison furlough to attend his daughter's wedding shot down by a Brooklyn federal judge. His son denied it," said the source. . "Dave, numbers are coming home Fifty-two years old, I'll be, it's a good deal." The money that flowed up to Gioeli was invested in purchasing "Joker-Poker" machines, which were illegal video-poker machines that exploded in popularity in the 1990s. Government witness Dino Calabro claimed that Gioeli told him he was "going to hell" for killing a nun. As far as Colombos go, Gioeli had a good run and didn't see the inside of a jail cell until 21 years after he was made, and five years into his reign as boss. Gioeli was not actually charged with killing the nun, but he remained accused of six murders when he went on trial this month. Nothing changed for accused mob bosses and Gioeli was still behind bars at the holidays. By the summer of 2002, Big Dino Calabro was also an official capo, thanks to his relationship with Tommy Shots. He'd previously been sent on a mission to crack the face of a boyfriend who had "bothered" another Gioeli daughter. If he wasn't at church, Gioeli would hold court while practicing bowling at the Country Line Bowling Alley, just like he did during the Greaves hit. After another heist, everyone in the team sported flashy leather jackets after Richie Greaves, acting on a tip from Tommy Shots, robbed a truckload of those. Gioeli was not actually charged with killing the nun, but he remained accused of six murders when he went on trial this month. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, just like he had for over a decade, where he had been a close pal of Allie Persico. The first and only alleged Mafia boss to maintain a blog is now on trial in Brooklyn federal court. Gioeli was wounded in the shoulder and stomach, earning him the nickname "Tommy Shots" and a reputation for toughness.[5]. While Greg 'the Grim Reaper' Scarpa turned Brooklyn into a battlefield during the 1990s, a low-key ally was doing the same thing in Long Island. They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who flip to help federal investigators. What a change socially and politically.. Published Sun Jul 21 2019 By Samana. The meeting was convened, according to Maragni, because a Lucchese mobster named Joseph Imbergamo had complained to Colombos that Ren owed him $25,000. Underboss Jackie DeRoss was finally arrested in 2001, joining Allie Boy, and the pair patiently waited to be hit with the murder of William Cutolo. [16], As of September 2015, Gioeli is incarcerated in the low security wing of the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner in Butner, North Carolina. Over in Long Island, Gioeli had the following crew members;1. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. If by some miracle, they were able to beat any indictments, they would then cash in their chips and retire from "the life. Allie, the son of imprisoned-for-life Colombo caporegime Anthony 'Chucky' Russo, sports a conviction from 1997 for assault but has not been linked to the affairs of his family's crime clan. Coffee boys could make $1000 a week before the mob showed up and charged them $250 weekly for the job privilege. Gioeli allegedly buried Greaves' body in an industrial park in Farmingdale, New York. Tommy "Machines" Gioeli extorted money out of various card game operators all over the city. McLaughlin, his brother-in-law Peter Tagliavia, Ilario' Fat Larry' Sessa, Gaetano' Tommy' Gallo, possibly Jerry Ciauri, and other violent associates formerly under Greg Scarpa's Dyker Heights decina were all under the wing of Little Dino, according to court records from Saracino's indictment, Sessa's sentencing memo, and Gallo's indictment. Retrieved 10 October 2011. In 2007, Dino Calabro represented Ralph Scopo Jr. at a sitdown with a union foreman on the World Trade Center site. As mentioned before, Gioeli's acting capo Paulie Guns Bevacqua began wearing a wire in March of 2008 although, with the heat mounting against Tommy Shots, the aging Long Island acting capo isn't believed to have drawn any incriminating remarks from his boss. 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