The trio kicked in drywall to enter the building and started using a blowtorch to open a bank's safe. He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. He'd previously been sent on a mission to crack the face of a boyfriend who had "bothered" another Gioeli daughter. Andre operated loansharking in Brooklyn and Staten Island along with Skinny Teddy Persico Jr. and Carmine L. Persico.3. [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. While associates close to the street boss were ducking from subpoenas and questioning by federal agents, the chubby 54-year-old maintained a prominent public profile in Brooklyn and Long Island. 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. Talking to Tommy is just like talking to me."). The governor wont be embracing the bill despised by landlords and supported by tenant advocates. 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. Calabro passed that along to Tommy Shots, who used his status as the Colombo's feared boss to work out a settlement in which the debtor agreed to "refinance his house to repay the loan. Tommy always told us, Shoot him in the body first, then walk up and cap him, Calabro said. Basciano agreed that Franzese didn't have long before ending up back behind bars; "You're right, he's gonna be in here." Nicky Rizzo, 73, an old-school shylock with longstanding ties to the Bonanno family.3. 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. The Daily News described her on January 6, 1982, as a "tireless social worker who often worked out of an office at St. Finbar's Church on Bay 20th St. She also served as director of social services for the Italian Board of Guardians in Brooklyn." But this was a mere formality, and Caves was still aligned mainly to Tommy Machines and Big Dino. Over in Long Island, Gioeli had the following crew members;1. Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli was once the acting boss of the Colombo Crime Family. New York Daily News. Tony Urso, a ruling panel member, told the other three attendees; "You see, the Colombos right now, their captains are the administration. Big Dino collected $8000 a month from Johnny Cash, which he split with Waverly until the latter's 2003 arrest. Now, that low-level drug dealer gave the FBI all the ammunition they needed to crack down on Tommy and Dino, as well as Dinos own protege Joey Competiello. 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. 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). Frankie Saracino was not a full-time member of the Bay Parkway Boys, but Little Dino fronted him the money to buy cocaine in the mid-to-late 1990s. Ren was given all the family's Florida-based made members who were previously split among other crews. 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. Government witness Dino Calabro claimed that Gioeli told him he was "going to hell" for killing a nun. 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. 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." The so-called "good brother," Seb was maintaining an air of legitimacy while living in Los Angeles, California. 2008. 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. Tommy "Machines" Gioeli extorted money out of various card game operators all over the city. A month later, the charges got more serious when he and Jackie DeRoss were busted for various union-related crimes. Reynalda, this is Tommy Gioeli amigo nostro, acting boss of the Colombo family." [4] The robbery indictment involved a 1991 fur shop robbery in which Gioeli allegedly posed as a customer. But Fatato, an enterprising mob associate with ties to three crime families, never ended up meeting Gioeli, and Franzese only hinted at his role as a "major player" in the mob. Bloody shootouts between the two factions in 1991 resulted in murders of prominent Orena supporters. Gioeli served prison time in the 1970s for robbery and was released in 1980. Gang Land News, correctly, predicted that the case against Sonny was just the beginning of the feds' onslaught on the crime family. You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. Both Vinny and Gary Gugliaro, 74 and 47, the aforementioned father-and-son team formerly under Tommy Shots. How is Thomas Gioeli managing to post about life behind bars? He demonstrated himself to be the most modern of alleged mob bosses. 2023 New York Public Radio. It's tantamount to life in prison, as Gioeli is 62 (though he looks more like 82) and apparently of ill health. They were at a Queens restaurant when Tommy received word that Johnny was hanging around Club Mirage in Farmingdale, a location which kicked up thousands of dollars in tribute money to the Colombo clan. Tommy Shots apologized to Ren at the wedding of Allie Russo, which took place shortly after Ren's induction. When Miciotta started blabbing about the murder in 1993 as part of his cooperation with the government, nobody was left to prosecute. The press fell hook, line, and sinker into Tommy Shots' sloppy style and his apparent poor fashion sense, evidenced by an unnecessarily cruel New York Daily News headline; "MOBSTER SLOBSTER: Long way from Dapper Don to Thomas the Train Wreck." This may have been an overstatement, but there's no question that the Perainos were among the top of America's pornography industry. "Dave, numbers are coming home Fifty-two years old, I'll be, it's a good deal." 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. He was also marked for death by the mob after being exposed as a double-crossing federal informant. The court papers state that Gioeli afterward expressed a fear to an informant that Im going to hell. The Blogfather flatly denied any involvement in the nun shooting and worried about the impact that just the allegation had on his family and friends. 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. Give the answers that the inquisitors want; you will be safe and they will be a little more powerful. Gioeli then allegedly buried Cutolo in the same location in Farmingdale, New York where he allegedly buried Greaves four years earlier.[7][8]. When Dave again asked if it was "that bad," Saracino seemed nonchalant. But with their subpoenas, the feds also scared an underling of Dino Saracino into becoming a federal informer. 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. 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. 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. A project by Massimiliano "MaxAor" Carli . On December 22, they convened at the Hilton Hotel and went out to the Club Mirage, at a VIP area that Gioeli had permanently reserved. 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. beware believers in true justice. 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. "Well, we're definitely giving this place an earthquake.". 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. Minerva was murdered because he was a Colombo soldier with the Orena faction. 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. 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." 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. The court papers state that Gioeli afterward expressed a fear to an informant that Im going to hell. The Blogfather flatly denied any involvement in the nun shooting and worried about the impact that just the allegation had on his family and friends. There was simply too much heat on Calabro and Co. since on May 30, 2000, federal agents and NYPD detectives began looking for the remains of Carmine Gargano. 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. He's totally low-rent.". The charges against 59-year-old Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli include six murders, among them the killing of a police officer. 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. Another old-school card game operator, John' Johnny Cash' Azzarelli, was previously under the thumb of Joe Waverly Cacace. [10] Although Alphonse Persico was convicted in 2007 of ordering Cutolo's murder, prosecutors had lacked sufficient evidence then to indict Gioeli. 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. He offered a succinct appraisal of his typing skills. 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. Gioeli gave his support to Orena. Donate today, Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations. With these three loosely connected facts, the feds fleshed out an incorrect analysis of what happened to Cutolo's body. By the time Miciotta changed his tune about the hit twenty years later and "remembered" that Tommy Shots and Lollipops were there, the feds decided that it wouldn't stick in court. Once they were safely inside, they whipped out guns, handcuffed the occupants, and stole a safe filled with drugs and cash. Tommy Gioeli was the powerful acting boss of the Colombo family from 2003-2008, and helped rebuild the family through the 21st century. I didnt want to work and thats the kind of life I wanted.. 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. 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). But for Gioeli and Co., it had to be business as usual. 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. Allie became convinced that the aging Lombardo was an undercover informant, and put the plans in motion before his imprisonment to have him murdered. 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. Then, he hooked up with Big Dino, a move which may have been a poor decision on Calabro's part. By John Marzulli, Daily News. "What was I going to do in my 40s?" The case against Sonny is the tip of the iceberg," Gang Land quoted one knowledgeable source as saying. (Note; This is a different person to Joseph Joe Monte Monteleone, a Colombo family soldier). 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. In preparation for a future behind bars, Gioeli began getting his affairs in order. You really think 17 years though, Dino? [4], On March 27, 1992, Gioeli and several Persico loyalists were ambushed, and became involved in a high-speed car chase. That's fucked up, 17 years, D." Little Dino confirmed that he was looking at that sort of time for his crimes. "He thought my father was too crazy," says Linda. The first album by the new band OUT OF THIS WORLD. Impressed, Gioeli allowed him to break away from Paulie Guns and found his own crew, taking members from both Bevacqua and the imprisoned Vinny' Unions' Ricciardo. 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.". 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. His projected release date is May 7, 2024. The closure of the Persico case meant the FBI could now focus their full attention on Gioeli. Whatever he posts, Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioelis Voice seems all but sure to continue being written from behind bars. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. Even if the small businessman refused, the Mafia always managed to push them into shops one way or another. At the time of this article's publication, Franzese is 102 years old and working with Newsday in a documentary about his life. 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 eschewed fancy suits and cars and, as one Daily News law enforcement source put it in June 2008; "He's not a flashy guy. 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. The following day, Saracino admitted to Gordon that, despite the "wall of silence," a future behind bars was almost a guarantee. 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. He was scribbling busily on a notepad--and some of it might even end up in the first accused-mob-boss blog. He didn't talk Mafia business at home or at any other meeting place easy to bug. The brazen gangland slayings that made the Colombos famous in the 1990s dropped off significantly under Tommy's reign, and crews in South Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, Long Island, and Florida appear to have rebuilt somewhat. The brothers split the proceeds among themselves, Calabro, and others. Twenty-one years later, Calabro was up on the witness stand fingering Gioeli for murder after murder. Gioeli became acquainted with the Profaci/Colombo family as a teenager, although his parents were never linked to organized crime. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, just like he had for over a decade, where he had been a close pal of Allie Persico. He clearly preferred the risk of that to spending the rest of his life in prison. If by some miracle, they were able to beat any indictments, they would then cash in their chips and retire from "the life. 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. Through it all, Tommy artfully avoided FBI scrutiny, never dropping the ball when it came to counter-surveillance. The first and only alleged Mafia boss to maintain a blog is now on trial in Brooklyn federal court. Nightlife magazine editor Michael Cutino explained Gioeli's press credentials as the magazine was doing a nightclub promotion in The Hamptons and Gioeli worked for a company that provided attractive "cigarette girls" for the event. So wild that a former nun ended up dead in the ensuing carnage. Subpoenas were flying, search warrants were being executed. 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. Calabro had grown out his hair, making him look greasy and disheveled, while Joey Caves Competiello had shaved his head military-style and begun to grow a beard. Published Sun Jul 21 2019 By Samana. Maragni recalled mingling with Tommy Gioeli, William 'Billy' Russo, Dennis DeLucia, Vincent' Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro and Vincent' Downtown Vinny' Manzo, all inducted Colombo gangsters. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023. However, by 2008, both Calabro and Competiello were now government witnesses planning to testify against Gioeli. Gioeli's under-the-radar lifestyle saw a period of relative stability for the Colombo crime family, at least compared with New York's other four. Self Produced. 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