There is substantial . Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. His job was to "get close to Lombardo" and whack him, according to court documents uncovered by Gang Land News on May 26, 2011. Given that they weren't on the scene, the pair would have heard, but not seen, the five shotgun blasts by the four-man hit team, and would later find out that the hit went horribly wrong. Gioeli then brought the Colombos back into the good graces of New Yorks various other Mafia groups by using longstanding connections to old pals, and helped get approval for his crime clan to officially "induct" new members. 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 blog bestows members of the prosecution team with such nicknames as "The Liar", "The Prune" and "The Seducer". 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. "I wanted what he had, Calabro later testified about Gioeli. Later on, Dennis also introduced him to both Jimmy Gooch and Billy Russo, but not Vinny Manzo, who was shelved at the time. Frank 'Frankie Wheels' Politi, 55, another Orena pal who ran extensive card games and bookmaking operations all over Long Island.5. The meeting was convened, according to Maragni, because a Lucchese mobster named Joseph Imbergamo had complained to Colombos that Ren owed him $25,000. The Colombo Crime Family . This was the chapter when Greg's daughter Linda marries Thomas McLaughlin aka Tommy, who has been sent away for dealing drugs. Coffee boys could make $1000 a week before the mob showed up and charged them $250 weekly for the job privilege. Even if the small businessman refused, the Mafia always managed to push them into shops one way or another. 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. 11/16/11 AT 12:14 PM EST. In 2004, according to the complaint, Calabro met the youngest Scopo when his father brought him along to his regular get-together with Calabro at a "bagel store on Route 109 on West Babylon" to hash out the money that the pair had made in the union." According to Suflay, the mob partnership was mutually beneficial; "I'm making a killing at this job," he boasted. Tony Urso, a ruling panel member, told the other three attendees; "You see, the Colombos right now, their captains are the administration. He can decry the quality of the jailhouse food and complain that his broken dentures were slow in being replaced. They went further, probing into the Greaves slaying too, and the Minerva/Imbergamo shooting. These included the 1997 killing of New York City Police Officer Ralph Dols, who was allegedly killed at the behest of another alleged Colombo family boss because the cop had dared to marry his ex-wife. Unfortunately, Tommy Shots was a no-show at the ceremony - he had an FBI tail behind him on his way to the Bronx, and he didn't want to risk exposing the sacred liturgy. At a sitdown at the restaurant, Gioeli's exact words were; "Go in the corner and stay there and don't come out. A mobster's wish of giving his daughter away at her wedding doesn't have the feds' blessing. He was scribbling busily on a notepad--and some of it might even end up in the first accused-mob-boss blog. He's totally low-rent.". A sniffer dog picked up a scent, so the search continued late into the night as an Emergency Service Unit backhoe plowed through the concrete." Presided over by Tommy Gioeli and Sonny Franzese, Frank' Frankie BF' Sturiano and Michael 'Mikey' Souza were 'straightened out,' with Souza reporting to Big Dino. He enjoys being close to his two daughters and four grandchildren, but he hasn't been spared the complaints of age arthritic knees, a cranky shoulder, hearing loss. Unfortunately, Little Dino and Tommy Machines discovered on their police scanners that a silent alarm had been tripped, forcing the crew to flee. 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 . 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. The acts that the prosecutors described hardly meshed with Mr. Perlmutter's portrayal of Mr. Gioeli as a family man, or "Tommy, the person," as he called him in a long argument that roused . Calabro first met Scopo Jr. in 2002, according to Calabro's testimony at a LIUNA hearing in March 2011. It felt good when he won; no it felt great, Gioeli says. 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. Possibly Frank Melia Jr., 54, who was also a Long Island-based capo during the 1990s. Gioeli also bestowed upon Maragni the honor of having an entire crew set up for him after the new soldier had obviously made a great impression on the acting boss. According to a NY Daily News article from January 3, 2011, Rick Suflay bragged about the job to his mob cohorts at Farrell's Bar in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. The wheels kept on turning in the world of organized crime. The first and only alleged Mafia boss to maintain a blog is now on trial in Brooklyn federal court. [4], On March 27, 1992, Gioeli and several Persico loyalists were ambushed, and became involved in a high-speed car chase. When the FBI searched Gioeli's house in 2008, among the items they discovered were a photo of Tommy andJoJoin 1972, with broad smiles on their faces in front of a Farmingdale candy store. A reputed Mafia boss won't be trading his prison stripes for a pinstripe suit on his daughter's wedding day. Gioeli served prison time in the 1970s for robbery and was released in 1980. Jimmy Gooch sat down with the two mobsters throughout 2005 and 2006, but again Tommy Shots had to step in so his underlings wouldn't be pushed around by the much-larger Gambino family, who have a history of shoving around the small Colombo clan.h. The father-son partners-in-crime had apparently progressed from dealing porn to narcotics, and Joe Jr. had refused to take part in a hit that was requested by Gambino boss Big Paul Castellano. 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. Tommy Shots Gioeli was the obvious contender for the new street boss - he had basically been serving as such for years. His website, "Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioeli's Voice", has taken on subjects as wide-ranging as religion, politics and penal reform. On March 16, 2008 - Palm Sunday - Maragni was brought to a basement in a makeshift Bronx social club. "Nicky's got a relationship with Tommy Shots, so what I did, I used Nicky Santora." But McLaughlin, who started off selling weed on the streets and worked his way up to command a major supply, found a role model in Greg Scarpa, a top captain for imprisoned family boss Carmine Persico and one of the most volatile guys around. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. Gargano was not named in the article, but the News confirmed the victim had disappeared from his parents' Bay Ridge, Brooklyn home on July 10, 1994, "after he was lured to a meeting by a Colombo family associate, sources said." For that depot, the crew stole a tractor unit to break in, hitched it to a trailer and drove off with the loot. Sebby and his pals took bets in L.A., and Little Dino did the same in New York. What Gioeli didn't know at that time was that the tape-recorded assault was also enough to cause acting capo Paulie Bevacqua to began snitching, according to a Gang Land article from December 1, 2011. 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But even through 2003, he was reluctant to step up and take the role. When no banks were available to rob, the crew tried their hand at sticking up other stores, but these were obviously less profitable. details 1 Copyright 2021 The Archive. [3] On May 9, 2012, the jury returned a mixed verdict. Interestingly enough, even though Miciotta himself admitted he "hated" Gioeli, he didn't name him or Carna as being in the crash car. Gioeli was not actually charged with killing the nun, but he remained accused of six murders when he went on trial this month. Ingratiating himself with his new pal, Calabro soon buddied up to Greaves friends. Retrieved 10 October 2011. He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. Tommy also shook down an unnamed Colombo associate's lucrative bookmaking operation. Everything seemed perfect - Big Dino and Greaves had built a plywood structure around them to obscure their attempt, while Caves and Sebby used a blowtorch to melt the screws securing the night deposit box to the wall of the bank. (Jesse Ward for New York Daily . As for the jailhouse health care, he notes with indignation that there are no gloves worn by the pill administrator in the pill line. He goes on to report that the administrator shakes out the pill in the cap or an ungloved hand and watches as we place this into our mouths., The cap maneuver may be OK for the mother who is giving meds to her kids, Gioeli says. Another old-school card game operator, John' Johnny Cash' Azzarelli, was previously under the thumb of Joe Waverly Cacace. In fact, Gioelis nickname among his Colombo peers was Tommy Machines, specifically because of his Joker-Poker prowess, the proceeds of which he would split 50/50 with the establishments proprietor. He might live to be a hundred." Thats just a rule in the Mafia. Even as he continued to hold induction ceremonies, attend mobbed-up weddings and hang out at connected clubs, he privately called his two closest pals - Dino Calabro and Joe Competiello - to a potentially life-changing meeting. The FBI were casting an ominous shadow on Gioelis life, as well as the day-to-day lives of his two disciples Dino Calabro and Joey Competiello. "I think so." Terrible, he said. Apart from a 1974 stock fraud conviction, the cautious wiseguy had avoided any prosecutions in his lengthy tenure in the Borgata. The following day, Maragni met with Imbergamo at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Staten Island to iron it out. We had an informant tell us it would take an earthquake to unearth this guy's body," one police source told the News. Basciano did, however, mull over one potential problem with the infamous Long Islander; "He'll be the screwiest underboss on the (planet). You gonna come visit me, Dave?" Even though he couldn't be made, Pagan was trusted with running things on the street for the powerful Graziano when, in 2002, T.G. Scarpa explained that the murder attempts were a culmination of several incidents that left the Perainos in poor standing with the mob. Various FBI agents have admitted that the Long Island-based godfather was adept at dodging police tails while he was on his way to high profile mob meetings. Better yet, despite being charged with six murders, including an NYPD officer, Gioeli is slated to exit prison in 2024 at the age of 71. "Calabro kept $1000 for himself; Scopo Jr. took $1500 for himself, and the remaining $7500 went to the Colombo Family Administration" (Thomas Gioeli and John Franzese). "What was I going to do in my 40s?" At the time of this article's publication, Franzese is 102 years old and working with Newsday in a documentary about his life. You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. 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. Unlike Scarpa, Thomas 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli made few headlines during his decade-long murder spree which saw him and his crew rack up nine bodies. The trio kicked in drywall to enter the building and started using a blowtorch to open a bank's safe. Calabro testified that Gioeli had given him one murder contract in a church garden, adding, Thats the garden where Tommy prayed. Calabro said that in reward for participating in various killings he was inducted into the mob with the traditional ceremony, during which Gioeli pricked his trigger finger and smeared blood on the picture of a saint that was the set on fire. In January of 2000, a Commission meeting was convened by Bonanno family godfather Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino, at the house of longtime Bonanno soldier Louis Restivo, according to Gang Land News. On February 9, 2010, Gioeli was briefly hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. Figuring that the gamblers' lives may have been in danger, despite Uvino declining a push by Fatato to have them murdered, the feds obtained an arrest warrant for those involved and whisked Fatato, his wife and kids away into the Witness Protection Program. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. For Tommy, the FBI's claim in question was that he picked up Wild Bill on 92nd Street and then, along with former Cutolo henchman Vincent' Chickie' DeMartino, murdered the underboss and dumped his body off a boat in a Long Island marina. That's because Souza was not only a brazenly aggressive mobster who found himself ready to go to war with the Bonanno family, but he also ended up ratting out his whole crew. He offered a succinct appraisal of his typing skills. Then, Mikey began testing a silencer to murder the Bonanno in-law in 2006. Anthony Kenny, a little-known thief with ties to the Bonanno family.Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello, 19, a self-described protg of Calabro.Dino 'Little Dino' and Sebastiano 'Sebby' Saracino, 18 and 26, respectively. 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. He demonstrated himself to be the most modern of alleged mob bosses. The charges against 59-year-old Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli include six murders, among them the killing of a police officer. Tommy Shots was a high-ranking member of the notorious Colombo crime family, an organization that has plagued New York City since the 1920s. Scarpa died of AIDS in 1994, facing multiple murder charges stemming from the 1991-93 Colombo war. In early 2008, Tommy Shots sent Big Dino and Joey Caves Competiello to hunt down radio disc jockey 'Goumba Johnny' for getting "fresh" with one of Gioeli's daughters. Up in Queens, capo Joseph Baudanza ran a crew involved in a lucrative $20 million pump-and-dump scheme and, as well as having blood ties to the Lucchese family and business ties to the Bonannos, allegedly served as the Colombo family's "liaison" to the Russian Mafia, according to turncoat Kenny Gallo. Even his phone was immune from court-authorized wiretaps, since Tommy got his cellphones made special from a mob associated telecommunications company. [9] On December 16, 2008, Gioeli was indicted on the 1995 Greaves murder and the 1999 Cutolo murder. 2023 New York Public Radio. After his exit from prison, he eschewed his old friend John and became best friends with another neighborhood crook named Richie Greaves. They met at Villagio's restaurant in West Palm Beach and Gioeli, impressed with Maragni's long allegiance to the Colombo family, notified him that he was going to be 'straightened out' that March. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, just like he had for over a decade, where he had been a close pal of Allie Persico. The year prior, a low-level drug dealer named Anthony Basile agreed to cooperate after being charged with a 1992 murder. Sonny believed him." Sebby was known in the neighborhood as the "good brother" while Little Dino was "no good," according to Gang Land News, although both were prolific criminals during this timeframe.Awjab 'O.J.' Instead, three of Gioeli's most powerful underlings presided over - acting underboss Richie Fusco & capos Benji Castellazzo and Dennis DeLucia. 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. Tommy had inside knowledge that the owner carried a lot of cash on him, and even introduced Dino to a Colombo associate who had a history of burglarizing houses. Along the way, he cultivated a small crew of . The Dols murder was committed because the officer married a woman that had married Colombo family members three times before. Before then, Maragni was the driver of flashy Colombo underboss Gennaro' Jerry Lang' Langella and recalled seeing Tommy Shots at Monte's Venetian restaurant back in the '70s. Calabros short-lived time as a Wimpy Boys wannabe was cut short when he received a 1.5-to-4.5 state sentence for attempted burglary and grand larceny. Ren was given all the family's Florida-based made members who were previously split among other crews. Thats just a rule in the Mafia. Little Dino, meanwhile, was further ingratiating himself into the Brooklyn underworld, making himself a valuable asset for Big Dino. I didnt want to work and thats the kind of life I wanted.. Basile flipped after being charged with the 1992 murder of New York Post executive Robert Perrino, and he quickly fingered Calabro and Gioeli in the killings of John Minerva & Michael Imbergamo, as well as Calabro's involvement in the accidental murder of Carlos Pagan and a 1991 fur store robbery that Gioeli, Calabro and Joe Competiello had pulled off. Tommy Shots was spreading the word to the other borgatas that his family's "captains" were the administration - indicating there was no acting boss thus far. In his two years working for the feds, Fatato recorded over 1000 hours of conversation with the geriatric gangster, who discussed everything from how to dispose of a body to helping out Carmine' Junior' Persico and his brother Alphonse back in the 1950s. A big one in the Local was the "coffee boy" scam, in which the mobsters took at least $250 from every union site in the city by charging the work site's "coffee boys"; union-mandated workers whose sole job was to handle lunch and coffee orders by negotiating deals with local delis and coffee shops, and bringing bulk containers of snacks and drinks for the staff, selling them at a profit. Former Colombo acting boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court yesterday to 18 years in prison for racketeering and murder conspiracy raps. Vincent 'Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro, 66, an influential Brooklyn-based soldier who was a good pal of Persico faction acting boss Joe Tomasello during the war. "I'm saying, D, it's that bad?" Ennab, 19, a stickup artist. Rousted early in the morning, Gioeli was hauled off in a grey hoodie, rumpled white tee and basketball shorts. "Oh, it's bad then, huh D?" After the owners of a Long Island market closed up for the night, Tommy Shots, Big Dino and Greaves jumped the owners on the street and made off with bags of cash. Tommy always told us, Shoot him in the body first, then walk up and cap him, Calabro said. A month later, the charges got more serious when he and Jackie DeRoss were busted for various union-related crimes. Each week during football season, an unnamed Colombo family associate faxed a sheet that listed a variety of college and professional football games to Sebby's California home. In his blog, Gioeli further reports that his own lawyers asked him to at least temper his postings and that the prosecution complained that some of its content violated court guidelines. They then drew guns and handcuffed the store's owners, Alexandra Hatzis, 56, and her son Gus, 25. With Joey Competiello as the getaway driver, they made off with $20,000, which they split with Tommy. In a conversation from May 6, 2008, crew member David Gordon brought up the fact that more and more stories were coming out about wiseguys ratting on one another. Whatever he posts, Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioelis Voice seems all but sure to continue being written from behind bars. Andre D'Apice, 28, a second-generation wiseguy and cousin of the Persicos. The governor wont be embracing the bill despised by landlords and supported by tenant advocates. Incensed at the blatant breaking of Mafia rules, Carmine Persico requested that Chucky's crew whack them. Despite the 100-year sentence imposed on the local's president Ralph Scopo Sr. in 1986, wiseguys retained control of the union by merely placing Scopo's son Ralph Jr., a soldier, in his place. Making matters worse, Calabro later confessed to regularly abusing Andrea. A very merry Christmas, the accompanying message read. New York Daily News. The early months of 2008 were a hectic time for the acting boss and his crew. The photos in . Gioeli entrusted Dino with his first underworld task at some point in 1989 or 1990. This article, published a little over a year after Gioeli and Franzese's promotions, also marked the beginning of an investigation into the affairs of the Colombo crime family leadership. I'm going to hell, said Gioeli to a fellow gangster after accidentally slaying a nun according to court documents. "Will you put money in my commissary?" A favorite money-maker for the crew came in the form of bank burglaries. According to Basile, Dino told him all about murders he committed on behalf of his adopted "uncle" Tommy. Rise in the Colombo . Gioeli had in fact touched index fingers to keyboard back before he was arrested, when he said it came time to prepare one of the traditional induction lists by which a crime family must secure approval from all the other crime families of its candidates for membership in the Mafia. The other inductee in the Greenpoint apartment, however, was decidedly less successful than Uvino & Catapano. In the mid-1980s, Gioeli was imprisoned for robbery, his first incarceration. But, given his job in running a Brooklyn-based crime family, Tommy Shots had to telecommute if he didn't want to leave his hood. Then, Cacace was indicted in January 2003, charged with multiple murders, including that of a federal judge, and running a lucrative bookmaking and extortion racket. This bode well for Gioeli, who was himself straightened out on January 9, 1987, along with two other aspiring gangsters, according to Greg Scarpa. The goons did as they were told, but the restauranteur called for Genovese soldier Salvatore DeMeo to back him in a sitdown. The first and only alleged Mafia boss to maintain a blog is now on trial in Brooklyn federal court. That's because, after failing to murder the father-and-son pornography tycoons initially, the hit team was forced to pursue them in a random Gravesend property on Lake Street. 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. This wasn't Caves' first time protecting the honor of his boss' family. Ralph Lombardo in 2003 (Source: Gang Land News), Anthony 'Tony Green' Urso in January 2004 (Source: Gang Land News), John 'Sonny' Franzese, 87, looking spry in a 2004 surveillance picture (Source: Gang Land News), Sonny Franzese and Gaetano 'Guy' Fatato in 2004 (Source: Gang Land News), Dino Calabro and Tommy Gioeli pose for a photo (Source: New York Daily News), Michael Uvino in 2007 (Source: Gang Land News), Ralph Scopo Jr. in 2005 (Source: Gang Land News), Little Dino Saracino (Source: NY Daily News), Vincent 'Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro in 2011 (Source: Gang Land News), Daniel Bogan in 2011 (Source: Gang Land News), Paul 'Paulie Guns' Bevacqua (Source: Gang Land News), Mikey and his crew's arrest marked the beginning of the feds' assault on the Calabro crew, which worked upwards, all the way to Gioeli. The pair met on Bay 8th Street and 86th Street in Brooklyn, where they also congregated with the acting boss' frequent lackey and Bronx capo Dennis DeLucia, as well as influential soldier Jimmy Febbraro and low-key Bensonhurst wiseguy Salvatore' Two Pair' Fusco Jr., who has had a long career in organized crime with no arrests since an overturned 1990 murder bust. Gioeli had in fact touched index fingers to keyboard back before he was arrested, when he said it came time to prepare one of the traditional induction lists by which a crime family must secure approval from all the other crime families of its candidates for membership in the Mafia. 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. In fact, in 1991, Little Dino and Joey Caves stuck up a Brooklyn candy store and scored a pitiful $250, which they dutifully split among themselves and Big Dino. 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