This makes those incriminating photos of you drunk on Facebook look like nothing. What a change socially and politically.. Atasha Chizaah Jefferson also known as Tommie Lee from Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta is a mom of two beautiful girls. 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." Robert Pate, 52, whose brother John turned informer back in 1992. 1 2 Marzulli, John (July 15, 2010). Among the exhibits the government entered into evidence was a video of Calabros 1991 wedding, where he toasted Gioeli. Watch your innocent brothers die in jail; you will be safe and they will be tyrants! In an apparent move to press for either cooperation or plea deals, Cacace and DeRoss' kids were also indicted for maintaining no-show jobs at an engineers' union. Soldier Frank 'Frankie Camp' Campione, 65, a close friend of Sonny Franzese who got a bit too chatty with Sonny's son. A mobster's wish of giving his daughter away at her wedding doesn't have the feds' blessing. The wiseguys conducted surveillance on the Chinaman's property, but the plot never came to fruition. He was there to discuss his future and, by extension, the future of New Yorks most violent and turbulent Mafia clan. "You're gonna have to plea out? Andre D'Apice, 28, a second-generation wiseguy and cousin of the Persicos. 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. 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. 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. But on this pleasant Spring morning, Tommy wasnt there to mull over Bible verses. 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. 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. Initially, according to JD, Joey Caves was told to report to capo Vinny Ricciardo, who was on bail on charges of labor racketeering. According to Basile, Dino told him all about murders he committed on behalf of his adopted "uncle" Tommy. But by the age of 19, Gioeli was boyhood pals with a neighborhood kid namedJoJo, whose father happened to be one of the Colombo crime family's biggest up-and-comers. 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. Calabro said he had uttered an oath. What a change socially and politically.. says the latest post on the blog, aptly titled A Justice Department of Criminals. 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. 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. His job was to "get close to Lombardo" and whack him, according to court documents uncovered by Gang Land News on May 26, 2011. 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. 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. [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. A favorite money-maker for the crew came in the form of bank burglaries. His first taste of organized crime came through a high school friendship with John Parlagreco, a low-level hoodlum who brought Calabro along to a Mafia social club. Among the exhibits the government entered into evidence was a video of Calabros 1991 wedding, where he toasted Gioeli. 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. Calabro first met Scopo Jr. in 2002, according to Calabro's testimony at a LIUNA hearing in March 2011. 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. By 1991 Orena, with the encouragement of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, felt strong enough to challenge Persico for total control of the family. But despite his decade-long friendship withJoJoRusso, Tommy would still have to "make his bones" if he wanted to be inducted into the Colombo crime family. I sit down at the keyboard and type, he told The Daily Beast in a telephone interview. Tommy always told us, Shoot him in the body first, then walk up and cap him, Calabro said. Gordon agreed, and Dino mused that "That's what must be bothering (the FBI) more." Be- fore betraying their crime leader as government witnesses, Competiello and Calabro had been loyal dogs. The media coverage of the tragic wrong-place-wrong-time murder was intense, and the Daily News reported on January 6 that the slaying marked the "continuation of a mob war to control a nationwide, multibillion-dollar smut ring." Gioeli allegedly buried Greaves' body in an industrial park in Farmingdale, 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. The charges against 59-year-old Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli include six murders, among them . With Joey Competiello as the getaway driver, they made off with $20,000, which they split with Tommy. The punishment against the baker was for falsely claiming he had been inducted into the Colombo crime family. 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. Franzese was one of the first family pioneers to make the journey to Long Island in search of new suburban rackets, according to Daily News articles from the time. Subpoenas were flying, search warrants were being executed. He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. 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. The trip to New York ended up being for nothing; Imbergamo quickly realized that Maragni wasn't the person that owed him the cash, and it was all a big misunderstanding. 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 . Terrible, he said. Maragni recalled mingling with Tommy Gioeli, William 'Billy' Russo, Dennis DeLucia, Vincent' Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro and Vincent' Downtown Vinny' Manzo, all inducted Colombo gangsters. Government witness Dino Calabro claimed that Gioeli told him he was "going to hell" for killing a nun. (Jesse Ward for New York Daily . TitleImprisoned since 2008Acting Boss from 2004-2008Acting Underboss from 1999-2004Capo from 1994-1999Soldier from 1987-1994Inducted in January 1987, Current StatusIncarcerated in Danbury, ConnecticutScheduled for release on September 9, 2024, Close Criminal AssociatesPaul Paulie Guns BevacquaJoel Joe Waverly CacaceDino Big Dino CalabroJoseph Junior Lollipops CarnaJoseph Joey Caves CompetielloJohn Sonny FranzeseThomas Irish Tommy McLaughlinAndrew Andy Mush RussoJoseph JoJo RussoWilliam Billy RussoDino Little Dino Saracino, Main TerritoryBrooklyn, New York- Bay Parkway- Bensonhurst- Carroll GardensLong Island, New York- Farmingdale. You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. A very merry Christmas, the accompanying message read. It is now up to the judge to decide if they will be used. Tommy Gioeli warned his young cousin about Greg Scarpa. In other words, Gioeli has the potential to influence people, if he's allowed to walk beyond the confinements of the state penitentiary. Calabro insisted that he had not known the victim was a cop at the time of the shooting. 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. Gambale was formerly under Wild Bill Cutolo until he went missing, according to JD.4. 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 . He always had a goomah on the side and even raised an illegitimate child. With Tommy McLaughlin, Calabro was tasked to wait outside a Brooklyn Meat Market until a man named Joe the Banker Monte exited. Over in Long Island, Gioeli had the following crew members;1. The first album by the new band OUT OF THIS WORLD. 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.' According to Suflay, the mob partnership was mutually beneficial; "I'm making a killing at this job," he boasted. 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.. On January 7, 2005, turncoat Bonanno boss Joey Massino - who had been wearing a wire in a Brooklyn detention center against his acting boss Vinny Basciano - was shocked to hear news of Franzese's ascension, despite Sonny having held the title of underboss in the 1980s as well. Due to his allegiance to Vic Orena during the Colombo war, Bevacqua helped "bridge the gap" between Gioeli and the remaining Orena holdouts.3. Tommy Shots was a high-ranking member of the notorious Colombo crime family, an organization that has plagued New York City since the 1920s. But this was a mere formality, and Caves was still aligned mainly to Tommy Machines and Big Dino. Gioeli gave his support to Orena. Sebby and his pals took bets in L.A., and Little Dino did the same in New York. 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. Middle-aged and plague with ailments, Tommy was thinking of stepping down as acting boss, and Calabro as capo, but Competiello offered a plausible solution - he would get the feds off their backs by taking the fall for the Richie Greaves murder. Tommy had instructed me to take a shower, because when you shoot a gun, you get gunpowder residue on you, Calabro said. 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