was charged with racketeering and murder conspiracy in New York and Florida. Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. Paul 'Paulie Guns' Bevacqua, 61, a Long Island-based aide of Gioeli. Maragni received a call in Florida from Angelo Spata, the brother-in-law of Allie Persico, and was told to meet with Gioeli at the Hilton Hotel in Huntington, Long Island. Gioeli, meanwhile, dodged the post-war prosecutions and shot his way to the top of the beleaguered Colombo clan, leading a murderous group of hoodlums from his Farmingdale family home. When one of Gioeli's four daughters was "bothered" by her boyfriend, Competiello said he went to the guy's house and cracked him in the face. In 1991, Gioeli switched sides and became the top lieutenant and protge of hitman Gregory Scarpa Sr. On June 12, 1991, Gioeli, Calabro, and soldier Joseph Competiello allegedly murdered Frank Marasa, an Orena loyalist, outside Marasa's home in Brooklyn. The informer, Sonny's son & drug-addled associate John Franzese Jr., tape-recorded conversations with his dad and his pals, including Colombo soldier Frank' Frankie Camp' Campione. Gioeli then allegedly buried Cutolo in the same location in Farmingdale, New York where he allegedly buried Greaves four years earlier.[7][8]. It is now up to the judge to decide if they will be used. Allie became convinced that the aging Lombardo was an undercover informant, and put the plans in motion before his imprisonment to have him murdered. 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. Which is where the story seems to come right out of a crime novel. Former Colombo street boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli, 67, is seeking to get out of prison about four years early because of the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to an email sent by the Victim-Witness Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York, a copy of which was forwarded to Cosa Nostra News today. He further testified that his subsequent duties as a made man included bringing around what Gioeli had generated in his basement as the mobs first word-processed induction list. Carl Herman, Gioeli's lawyer, described his client as a father of four daughters, married for 30 years, living in a modest house in Farmingdale, who had done little more than associate with other . trucking depot before the scene became too "hot" for future attempts. Big Dino Calabro's self-described protg was Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello, whose graffiti name was The Rock. Five years younger than Dino, Competiello was a "tough kid," he testified in 2012, arrested at the age of 13 for joyriding a stolen car across the Verrazano Bridge. At the grotto of a quaint, Long Island church, Tommy Gioeli sat with his two closest friends. New York Daily News. With Tommy McLaughlin, Calabro was tasked to wait outside a Brooklyn Meat Market until a man named Joe the Banker Monte exited. "I'm saying, D, it's that bad?" He has his daughter post his TRULINGS musings in a blog called. April 1992 - Orena . Only briefly staying in the Big Apple, Ren had been accompanying Tommy to various sitdowns and get-togethers after Gioeli straightened him out in March of 2008. The closure of the Persico case meant the FBI could now focus their full attention on Gioeli. The induction of Competiello and the Saracino Brothers took place at a residence on West 6th St., Gravesend, according to mob researcher JD. This Angers Scarpa to no end and begins a vendetta hunting down Orena loyalists . On March 16, 2008 - Palm Sunday - Maragni was brought to a basement in a makeshift Bronx social club. Hochul deflects when asked about 'good cause' eviction bill, Judge: Former coach's discrimination lawsuit against New York Giants and NFL can proceed, Supreme Court justices pour water on NYs push to save mob-busting seaport watchdog, NJ Legislature OKs bill to make landlords, sellers warn residents about past floods. Call him the blogging crime boss: Reputed Colombo kingpin Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has set up a behind-bars blog to portray himself as . Andrew 'Andy Mush' Russo, who was among the many Colombo gangsters that had migrated their families and their rackets to Long Island, was an influential underworld figure who was then attending various functions with mob bosses across the country on behalf of his imprisoned cousin, boss Carmine 'Junior' Persico. Greaves had asked the Colombo leadership for permission to leave the family and move to the Midwest. Other schemes were plagued with problems. His website, "Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioeli's Voice", has taken on subjects as wide-ranging as religion, politics and penal reform. 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. 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. Senior made deals left and right to try and iron things out, but didn't keep his word on any of them and, embarrassed, Gioeli was forced to put him on the shelf. A very merry Christmas, the accompanying message read. Lamenting the fact that he was seemingly immune from prosecution, a police source told Jerry Capeci in January 2005: "He's got a crew of shooters who haven't really gotten touched.". Rise in the Colombo . 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. Thomas Gioeli was born in 1953 to Salvatore & Julie Gioeli and grew up in the quaint Long Island village of Farmingdale. Peraino Sr. was hit in the buttocks, but he survived for another sixteen years. He can decry the quality of the jailhouse food and complain that his broken dentures were slow in being replaced. Although John wasnt too entrenched in racketeering, his brother Mario was a full-time member of the Wimpy Boys, a misleadingly-named crew of murderers, loansharks and extortionists under the command of father-and-son Colombo mobsters Greg Scarpa Sr. and Jr. With John Parlagreco, Big Dino began stealing cars and burglarizing homes, and then showed up to the Wimpy Boys social club on 13th Ave. and 75th St. to chat about his endeavors. Deen J. Castronovo (born August 17, 1964) is an American drummer and singer, best known for being a member of classic rock band Journey and hard rock acts Bad English and Hardline.He currently plays drums and shares lead vocals for the bands Journey, Generation Radio, and Revolution Saints.He has been a touring and studio player for Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Vai, Paul Rodgers, and Black Sabbath . Another perk of Calabro's new title was the routine shakedown of gambling operators in Brooklyn and Long Island. There is substantial . They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who flip to help federal investigators. "In a less successful operation, Calabro, Sebby Saracino, and Richie Greaves were the burglars while Tommy Machines and Little Dino acted as lookouts outside. Reynold 'Ren' Maragni, a self-described Bensonhurst "tough guy" and later a Colombo caporegime, recalled meeting Gioeli for the first time in the 1970s at Monte's Venetian, an age-old Carroll St. establishment that was a favorite of both the Colombo family andFrankSinatra. According to the News, the union would generally have a "low-ball" estimate of six jobs going at a time, meaning $6000 a month, or $72,000 a year. The year prior, a low-level drug dealer named Anthony Basile agreed to cooperate after being charged with a 1992 murder. In 1984, Andrew Russo was indicted again along with cousin Carmine Persico in the Concrete Case, a headline-grabbing bust that culminated in arrests for allFiveFamilies. At a glance, it appears Bevacqua ran the portion of Gioeli's crew that was based in Long Island, while Carna, who allegedly sat in a crash car with Gioeli back when ex-nun Veronica Zuraw was murdered, kept the crew in Brooklyn. Joined by the rest of the crew, the wiseguys also tried to rob the Farmingdale Meats Market but fled after an alarm went off, and tried (unsuccessfully) to break into a Long Island fur store with a sledgehammer. The Bureau of Prisons says that TRULINGS is intended to provide inmates with some limited computer access, to include the capability to send and receive electronic messages without having access to the Internet, but Gioeli found a simple way to surmount that restriction. According to Basile, Dino told him all about murders he committed on behalf of his adopted "uncle" Tommy. How long more does he got to live?" Fatato was forced to be taken off the streets when he took part in - and recorded - the grueling beating and pistol-whipping of two dimwitted gamblers who orchestrated the robbing Uvino's Lindenhurst card game. Nicky met him (Sonny) as underboss," said Basciano, referring to a 2004 sitdown that took place with Gioeli, Franzese, and Santora regarding an unknown dispute. 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. In January 2004, Calabro got another influx of crew members when Tommy Gioeli presided over the induction of Joseph' Joey Caves' Competiello and the two Saracino Brothers, Little Dino, and Sebby. Gioeli and Calabro presided over the ceremony, as well as the recently-released Sonny Franzese and South Brooklyn capo Joseph Baudanza, who inducted a crew member of his own named Little Craig Marino. In the blog, Gioeli proclaims himself an unconvicted American man being denied basic rights and health care, a victim of the tactics of Nazi Germany and Stalins Russia. Gioeli assigns insulting nicknames to the prosecution team and accuses an FBI agent of being inappropriate with the wife of an informant. Gioeli accuses the informant, Big Dino Calabro, himself of beating his wife, poisoning a supposed buddys pet fish, shooting his own dog, and murdering numerous enemies and friends. Calabro is unreachable in protective custody and has no blog of his own with which to respond. Maragni recalled mingling with Tommy Gioeli, William 'Billy' Russo, Dennis DeLucia, Vincent' Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro and Vincent' Downtown Vinny' Manzo, all inducted Colombo gangsters. [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. Fellow Queens capo, Ralphie Lombardo, who was released from prison in 2006, was still viewed with distrust by Gioeli. 1 2 Marzulli, John (July 15, 2010). Gioeli the Blogfather protested vehemently when the government filed court papers alleging that his own crimes included unintentionally killing a former nun with a shotgun blast in 1982. In addition to murdering a nun, Gioeli has been charged for murdering an off-duty police officer, Ralph Dols, who was ambushed outside his home in 1997. 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. I'm going to hell, said Gioeli to a fellow gangster after accidentally slaying a nun according to court documents. Gioeli allegedly buried Greaves' body in an industrial park in Farmingdale, New York. Gioeli nixed the idea - "Absolutely not," he said. 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"Oh, it's bad then, huh D?" Such personas, while it might not have been good for the wiseguys' street cred, would hopefully make them look less like Mafiosi in the eyes of a jury. Eight years later, Little Dino tried his hand at drugs once more - this time, he and Sebby got pounds of marijuana mailed to Colombo associates in New York along with an unnamed co-conspirator. On February 9, 2010, Gioeli was briefly hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. According to Suflay, the mob partnership was mutually beneficial; "I'm making a killing at this job," he boasted. Because they feel that Joe Waverly, they don't know what's gonna happen with Joe Waverly. After a heated financially-driven sitdown with high-ranking Bonanno associate Hector Pagan, the son-in-law of then-consigliere Anthony' T.G.' There were more unsuccessful heists, showing just how lucky the crew was not to get caught. 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