Gioeli sat in an argyle sweater that looked like it might have come from a truckload of Macys returns the crew had been accused of hijacking. During this meeting, Scopo Jr. gave Calabro $10,000 as his monthly share from the shakedown" of one contractor, the complaint said. New adds: Collective Soul (dec), Rox Diamond (2018), Reuben Archers Personal Sin (dec), Circus Of Power (dec), Perfect Beings (jan 2018), Kataklysm (apr 2018), Leaves' Eyes (jan 2018), Tribulation (jan), Steel City (jan), Satin (nov), Toseland (2018) In bold, the last updates. Rousted early in the morning, Gioeli was hauled off in a grey hoodie, rumpled white tee and basketball shorts. "The reality is most laborers are not interested in the headaches and complaints involved in the job and, more importantly, most laborers are not qualified to properly take the coffee and lunch orders for what can be as little as five laborers and often can be for as many as 100 or more," the union said in its response.". The team also tried their hand at looting banks' night deposit boxes, but that was a mostly futile task. "Nicky's got a relationship with Tommy Shots, so what I did, I used Nicky Santora." Dino and Tommy were peas in a pod. Therefore, following his ceremony, Calabro was not placed in Tommy Gioeli's crew, but in Ralph Lombardo's Middle Village decina. The feds also got their hands on a nifty little phone book with the listed names and numbers of all of Gioeli's underworld associates. One of the crew's most successful heists took place in Syosset, Long Island, at Furs by Mina on 408 Jericho Turnpike. 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. This included the legendary Califano family, a tight-knit kindred of bookies and card game operators that have been associated with the Colombo and Lucchese borgatas since the 1990s. says the latest post on the blog, aptly titled A Justice Department of Criminals. Lee sometimes uses social media as a medium to show off her beautiful daughters. New York Daily News. Straightened out at the ripe old age of 64, Vinny Manzo made his bones when he helped out in the hit of Wild Bill Cutolo. In the mid-1980s, Gioeli was imprisoned for robbery, his first incarceration. Retrieved 10 October 2011. At first, the two Souzas planned on assaulting Pagan by surprise - a so-called "jack in the box," as Souza called it on tape. The trio kicked in drywall to enter the building and started using a blowtorch to open a bank's safe. 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. The name Samaria translates to "Watch mountains or Towers" in Hebrew. Years later, Pagan was Graziano's eyes and ears on the street while the elderly capo/consigliere was in a halfway house. The brothers split the proceeds among themselves, Calabro, and others. 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. 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?" Tom Gioeli and a second-generation Brooklyn gangster named Joseph 'Junior Lollipops' Carna, 42, were allegedly in crash cars down the street, according to testimony from the gunman in the hit. Top-echelon Colombo informer Greg Scarpa Sr. confirmed to the feds the following day who had committed the hit - he said one of the assailants was capo Anthony 'Chucky' Russo, although the other two names in the file are redacted. They planned to throw a cinderblock through a window while the employees were emptying the night depository boxes, but, embarrassingly, the brick bounced off without shattering the window, and the crew had to flee the scene. 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. A reputed Mafia boss won't be trading his prison stripes for a pinstripe suit on his daughter's wedding day. Descriptions of Tommy's role in the family from Bonanno underboss Sal Vitale show that Gioeli had all the trappings of a 'street boss' during the 1990s - he was the eyes and ears on the street of whomever was in charge at the time, and held all the weight of a boss in meetings with other families (Cacace quote from 2000; "If you need to see me, tell Tommy. Colombo Crime Family / Dino Calabro / John Franzese / Thomas Gioeli, Copyright var creditsyear = new Date();document.write(creditsyear.getFullYear()); Thomas Gioeli was born in 1953 to Salvatore & Julie Gioeli and grew up in the quaint Long Island village of Farmingdale. "I wanted what he had, Calabro later testified about Gioeli. Frank 'Frankie Wheels' Politi, 55, another Orena pal who ran extensive card games and bookmaking operations all over Long Island.5. But, after years of dodging undercover tails and avoiding federal wiretaps, prosecutors were finally getting somewhere and Tommy could read the writing on the wall. These locations included; Jimmys, an after-hours bar on Coney Island Avenue between O and P; the Getty Gas Station; The Glory Club in Downtown Brooklyn; a candy store owned by mob associate Lenny the Barber.. Back in 2013, in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center Gioeli, who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, was enjoying a game when he went to retrieve an errant ball, slipped in a puddle caused by a leaking pipe under a sink and broke his kneecap (a sound he's probably familiar with no doubt). All rights reserved. It's tantamount to life in prison, as Gioeli is 62 (though he looks more like 82) and apparently of ill health. For that depot, the crew stole a tractor unit to break in, hitched it to a trailer and drove off with the loot. "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). The acting boss was always one step ahead of the feds too, unlike his long-suffering underboss. Ennab, 19, a stickup artist. That day, he took Fatato along with a bunch of crew members to pistol-whip and interrogate the gamblers as to who conducted the actual robbery. His son denied it," said the source. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, just like he had for over a decade, where he had been a close pal of Allie Persico. We dont typically kill police officers, he said. In South Brooklyn, the mid-2000s saw droves of former members and associates leave federal prison after serving decade-long sentences stemming from the Colombo family 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. Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. Mugshot of Thomas Gioeli from the 1970s (Source: LCNBios.blogspot.com), Mugshot of Joseph 'Junior Lollipops' Carna from 1977, Joseph Peraino Sr. following the shooting (Source: NY Daily News), Andrew 'Andy Mush' Russo, 1984 (Source: Getty Images). Ren was given all the family's Florida-based made members who were previously split among other crews. He's totally low-rent.". When Monte came out, the two young hoods gave him a beating in broad daylight. Later on, Dennis also introduced him to both Jimmy Gooch and Billy Russo, but not Vinny Manzo, who was shelved at the time. "Colombo boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli charged with '97 slay of cop". 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. Adelaide died as a result of the wound. According to Basile, Dino told him all about murders he committed on behalf of his adopted "uncle" Tommy. 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. 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. At 6:45pm, on February 11, 1991, Gioeli, Calabro and Competiello entered the store posing as a father and his two sons shopping for Valentine's Day. Little Dino and Sebby tried to track down the man they deemed responsible, Michael' Squirts' Burnside, and called upon some other Colombos to help them out. Allie became convinced that the aging Lombardo was an undercover informant, and put the plans in motion before his imprisonment to have him murdered. 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. Gioeli was not actually charged with killing the nun, but he remained accused of six murders when he went on trial this month. Ex-Colombo crime family boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli loves playing ping-pong. Franzese's nephew, Michael Catapano, garnered a reputation as an up-and-comer in the family whose underlings grew pot, sold coke, and shook down area businesses. But on this pleasant Spring morning, Tommy wasnt there to mull over Bible verses. 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. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. And even when he did favor a site to meet with associates, like the Our Lady of Lourdes Church, hard-to-decipher codewords and hand signals (like the ones used when he passed down the Cutolo contract) would prevent feds from gathering worthwhile bugs. 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. Persico Jr., who hung out with longtime pal Eddie Garofalo at a Spencer Street trucking lot, also branched into classic blue-collar crimes such as loansharking & gambling with his brothers Carmine L. and Danny Persico, and his cousin Andre D'Apice. He'd previously been sent on a mission to crack the face of a boyfriend who had "bothered" another Gioeli daughter. According to Gordon, Calabro did not have complete confidence in Ralph III, but he "believed his loyalties would always be with the Colombo family because his father, Scopo Jr., was a Colombo soldier," according to the report. Meanwhile, his house was raided and, according to Gioeli, his wife and daughters were held at gunpoint by overzealous federal agents, who seized everything from funeral Mass cards to a VIP pass for a Farmingdale nightclub. If by some miracle, they were able to beat any indictments, they would then cash in their chips and retire from "the life. A lawyer for Gioeliwho you might remember suffered a stroke in jail last year after his bid to be released to do ill health was turned downsays that the photos are inadmissible as they were taken from Gioeli's house without a warrant. Thanks for your continued support, it means so much. And This Is Why You Don't Take "Family" Photos, We rely on your support to make local news available to all, Astoria pool will be closed this summer for renovations: Parks, Gov. As well as chatting up a storm about his own mob activities, Sonny also unknowingly pegged Tommy Gioeli as the Colombo family's head, giving the feds ammunition for their own indictment in the works, courtesy of Anthony Basile. Even with the heat, the crew was always scheming, and in 2000, Tommy Shots suggested that Big Dino rob the owner of Lotus Garden, a Chinese restaurant. He took the pair for a scenic walk along the Our Lady of Lourdes Church Rosary and grotto - the same place where he had allegedly ordered Wild Bill's death. trucking depot before the scene became too "hot" for future attempts. 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. Joseph 'Joe Smash' Gambale, 49, another Brooklynite. The dig saw the Gioeli crew lay low as the family was reeling from continuing federal indictments. The early months of 2008 were a hectic time for the acting boss and his crew. Maureen Gioeli (l.), wife of Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli, leaves federal court in Brooklyn after another day in the murder and racketeering trial of reputed mobster. Even while Tommy Gioeli snubbed him, Saracino was still friends with Tommy McLaughlin, who was serving fourteen years for a 1995 drug-busting rap. What a change socially and politically.. 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. 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. After the 2004 conviction of acting boss Cacace, Gioeli was promoted to "Street boss", with his protg Paul Bevacqua as acting capo. 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. The above is a quote attributed to Colombo Crime Family leader Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli. Of special interest to the FBI was Basiles knowledge about crimes committed by Dino Calabro, Tommys right-hand-man, during his hoodlum years during the 1980s and 1990s. On that day, Allie called Tommy's phone, then he called Long Island marina. 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. Obviously, Maragni's clout in the family was such that he could get away with such a move. 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. These payments went up to a comfy $10,000 a month after Azzarelli began dabbling into the Joker-Poker business. 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. One of his key aides, a tough old-timer named Paulie Bevacqua, helped bring the various rebelling factions back under one flag. He had cash squirreled away from various robberies and scores over the years, and could potentially continue to collect paychecks from his lucratively-placed video poker machines across the city. 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One $10,000 loan from Febbraro's subordinate, Daniel Bogan, to a Brooklyn restauranteur, went all the way up the chain to acting boss Tommy Gioeli, who pushed Jimmy Gooch and Bogan to get it back. 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. Vincent' Chickie' DeMartino, 47, a onetime friend of Wild Bill Cutolo who quickly ingratiated himself with Tommy Gioeli, Allie Persico and John DeRoss after he caught wind of the plot to end Cutolo's life.2. In fact, pushing this agenda further, Gioeli even claimed he was too poor to afford counsel and the court-appointed Adam Perlmutter as his attorney. 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." Lastly, Calabro was given a particularly lucrative soldier named Ralph Scopo Jr. Aside from being a loanshark and gambling proprietor with extensive ties to both the Gambino and Genovese borgatas, Scopo controlled Local 6A of the Cement and Concrete Workers' Union. Reading the writing on the wall, Tommy convened his two lieutenants at Our Lady of Lourdes to announce his planned retirement from the life. The wiseguys conducted surveillance on the Chinaman's property, but the plot never came to fruition. A very merry Christmas, the accompanying message read. Twenty years later, when he moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Maragni became the "liaison" to New York for Floridian associates. 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. The blog bestows members of the prosecution team with such nicknames as "The Liar", "The Prune" and "The Seducer". 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. But for Gioeli and Co., it had to be business as usual. And I'll take it with a fucking smile," he noted, keeping his spirits up. Rise in the Colombo . But, Basciano pondered; "He's in some shape, Bo. "He came home and cried his eyes out saying, 'I would never do that, no matter what kind of trouble I had.' After many (Danny Capaldo, Tommy McLaughlin, Joe Marra, Anthony Stropoli, and more) successfully maintained loansharking businesses from behind bars, the gangsters left prison to branch into gambling, home invasions, and drug-dealing. "How am I going to go 17 years without girls? They went further, probing into the Greaves slaying too, and the Minerva/Imbergamo shooting. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 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. He was given his own crew, according to a report by JD, which consisted of the five members;1. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. Nothing changed for accused mob bosses and Gioeli was still behind bars at the holidays. Greaves had asked the Colombo leadership for permission to leave the family and move to the Midwest. In fact, despite his low-key persona, the acting boss gave the murder contract of Lombardo to his acting capo, Paulie Bevacqua. This is no small feat. 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. He didn't want anybody having to take the burden of being the "fall guy." They had received a tip that a Coney Island. It was on that day that the feds not only convicted former acting boss Allie Persico and underboss Jackie DeRoss of William Cutolo's murder but also publicly named Thomas Gioeli as the triggerman. And, when burying a victim, the standard practice was to dump in a bag of lime. But, according to an exclusive Gang Land article released the following week, the feds' key informer in the case had much bigger things in store than a petty probation bust. The Persico faction now claimed victory and Persico's son, Alphonse "Little Allie Boy" Persico took effective control of the family. Besides, Massino pointed out; "he has gotta be 87! Saracino was accused of the slaying along with Colombo street boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli on orders from then family boss Joel "Joe Waverly" Cacace. Twenty years later, the power continued, and Ralphie Jr. - who was convicted of illegal gambling with Genovese mobsters in 2005 - eventually passed the torch onto his son, Ralph III. [4], On March 27, 1992, Gioeli and several Persico loyalists were ambushed, and became involved in a high-speed car chase. The blog enabled Gioeli to register objections when he was allowed to attend neither his daughters wedding nor his fathers funeral. Thats just a rule in the Mafia. Gioeli is locked up while he awaits trial for a number of charges and has taken to drafting blog posts to his daughter while listening to his alleged crimes on a government-issued iPod. Perhaps Miciotta, whose central testimony related to the 1991-93 Colombo war, didn't see the relevance in pointing the finger for a crime the feds weren't particularly interested in, or perhaps - as Gioeli and his attorneys have long maintained - the pair weren't actually involved in the murder. 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You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. Instead, he and his crew would stick together and battle the feds if they were indicted. Similar to Bevacqua, Dello had a reputation as a violent Orena faction "shooter."4. But Basciano was adamant that Franzese was the "official underboss," and that he had gotten the news from Williamsburg-based Bonanno captain Nicky Santora, a close friend of Tommy Gioeli." [4], On March 25, 1992, Gioeli and Calabro allegedly murdered John Minerva and Micheal Imbergamo as they sat in a parked car on Long Island. 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.' Tommy always told us, Shoot him in the body first, then walk up and cap him, Calabro said. Other schemes were plagued with problems. Unfortunately, Frank was murdered in April of 1998. Dealing in the millions, the Califanos were some of the Big Apple's biggest gambling kingpins, but it's unknown how much they kicked up to Gioeli and Calabro. The same couldn't be said for Anthony Basile, Calabro's old Bensonhurst pal from the '80s and '90s. Gioeli became acquainted with the Profaci/Colombo family as a teenager, although his parents were never linked to organized crime. [2], In 1997, Gioeli allegedly participated in the murder of Ralph Dols, a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer. They then drew guns and handcuffed the store's owners, Alexandra Hatzis, 56, and her son Gus, 25. If I repeat anything that happens in here, I should die and burn in hell, Calabro recalled. 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 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 . It's unknown if, by 2000, Melia Jr. was a member of Gioeli's crew, a member of Sonny Franzese's Long Island crew, or a capo in his own right.Down in Brooklyn and Staten Island, the crew consisted of;1. ", This conversation was revealed in a Gang Land column from September 8, 2005, which quoted one law enforcement source saying that the seemingly ageless Franzese had been "very active, playing an active role in the day-to-day affairs of the family," "He just keeps on trucking," said another source, adding that Sonny was "coordinating activities within the Colombo family and meeting with mobsters from other families.". Imbergamo was a friend of Minerva's who was not involved in organized crime. Gioeli, acting as an underworld tour guide for Maragni, next took the Floridian to the infamous "de-pantsing" of the aforementioned Louie Canoli Borgognone. 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. Gioeli also took a liking to McLaughlin's 20-year-old friend, the Sicilian-born Big Dino Calabro. Twenty-one years later, Calabro was up on the witness stand fingering Gioeli for murder after murder. Vincent 'Vinny Sicilian' Gugliaro, 72, an elderly mobster and former caporegime.5. In 2007, Dino Calabro represented Ralph Scopo Jr. at a sitdown with a union foreman on the World Trade Center site. When Dave again asked if it was "that bad," Saracino seemed nonchalant. In 1993, one of Orena's last remaining allies, Joseph Scopo, was killed and Orena was sentenced to life in prison. 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