His long and storied career was put on hiatus in 2008, after his two closest confindantes and henchmen began working with the government to charge him with multiple Mafia slayings. But that, as well as the Lombardo hit, never came to fruition. But with their subpoenas, the feds also scared an underling of Dino Saracino into becoming a federal informer. 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. Keeping abreast of the cops with a police scanner, the crew made off with 150 high-end fur coats worth $900,000 at retail value. Though all mobsters break every law in the book, or both books . 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. Even his phone was immune from court-authorized wiretaps, since Tommy got his cellphones made special from a mob associated telecommunications company. Calabro's marriage was typical of any wiseguy's. 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 September 2007, the Colombo underboss got some more bad news - his protg, driver and leg-breaker Gaetano' Guy' Fatato was a two-year federal informer who taped over a thousand hours of conversation with Sonny and the Uvino crew. 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. 55-years-old, plagued with obesity-related heart problems and diabetes, Tommy was fed up with the Mafia. 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. He had been at the top of the Colombo crime family since the early 1990s and, by all accounts, had done a pretty good job. Little Dino operated his own lucrative shylock business with over $100,000 on the street, which tied into a sports betting operation he ran with Sebby and other Colombos. Around this time, Gioeli began mentoring his 18-year-old cousin, Thomas 'Irish Tommy' McLaughlin, a rough-and-tumble half-Irish, half-Italian Bensonhurst hoodlum. In 1982, Gioeli allegedly participated in the accidental killing of Veronica Zuraw, a former Catholic nun. 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. In 2007, Dino Calabro represented Ralph Scopo Jr. at a sitdown with a union foreman on the World Trade Center site. The charges against 59-year-old Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli include six murders, among them the killing of a police officer. 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. 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. The other three members of the hit team were Vincent 'Jimmy' Angelino, John Minerva, and Frankie Blue Eyes Sparaco. Basciano agreed that Franzese didn't have long before ending up back behind bars; "You're right, he's gonna be in here." Gioeli also took a liking to McLaughlin's 20-year-old friend, the Sicilian-born Big Dino Calabro. Dino was enamored by the respected and feared mobsters that showed up at the social club to confer with the elder Scarpa, whose ominous underworld nicknames included the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter. In Brooklyn Federal Court almost thirty years later, Big Dino testified about his first impressions;"I seen older guys with dress suits on and cars and jewelry in the middle of the day. That, Calabro said, was (j)ust what I wanted to do. Unfortunately, Little Dino and Tommy Machines discovered on their police scanners that a silent alarm had been tripped, forcing the crew to flee. Rise in the Colombo . If I repeat anything that happens in here, I should die and burn in hell, Calabro recalled. 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. 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. Be- fore betraying their crime leader as government witnesses, Competiello and Calabro had been loyal dogs. The following day, Maragni met with Imbergamo at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Staten Island to iron it out. He demonstrated himself to be the most modern of alleged mob bosses. 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. [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. 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.' Jackie's arrest meant that Tommy Gioeli finally got a long-overdue promotion to acting underboss. A project by Massimiliano "MaxAor" Carli . FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. 2. When no banks were available to rob, the crew tried their hand at sticking up other stores, but these were obviously less profitable. 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." 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. Basciano did, however, mull over one potential problem with the infamous Long Islander; "He'll be the screwiest underboss on the (planet). Ex-Colombo crime family boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli loves playing ping-pong. 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. Sometimes the crew even resorted to mugging to make a fast buck. Talking to Tommy is just like talking to me."). Along with the foreboding subpoenas which struck enough fear into Gioeli to spur him to consider leaving "the life," the feds were also strengthening their case behind the scenes. Gioeli allegedly took the order from Cacace and arranged for Calabro and Colombo mobster Dino Saracino to shoot Dols outside his Brooklyn house.[3]. Truckloads of loot were regularly taken from one particular L.I. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023. On that day, Allie called Tommy's phone, then he called 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. 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. Thanks for your continued support, it means so much. Tommy Gioeli was running a Colombo crew of his own. 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. Minerva was murdered because he was a Colombo soldier with the Orena faction. Gioeli nixed the idea - "Absolutely not," he said. 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. I sit down at the keyboard and type, he told The Daily Beast in a telephone interview. You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. He then signs on to the BOPs Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TULINGS) and begins doing something that no other accused Mafia boss has been known to do. Maragni left his journey to New York with a photo with the cast of The Sopranos and, more importantly, increased standing in the Colombo crime family. While Greg 'the Grim Reaper' Scarpa turned Brooklyn into a battlefield during the 1990s, a low-key ally was doing the same thing in Long Island. One of the crew's most successful heists took place in Syosset, Long Island, at Furs by Mina on 408 Jericho Turnpike. 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. 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. In fact, Tommy Gioeli even rented out a warehouse in Long Island to store hot goods that came from swiped trailers, such as one stolen from the Macy's Long Island parking lot at Massapequa Mall. There was Anthony Basile, an on-record associate of one of the Bonanno crime familys most prolific killers, Tommy Pitera. 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. 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. Lee sometimes uses social media as a medium to show off her beautiful daughters. 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.. Possibly Frank Melia Jr., 54, who was also a Long Island-based capo during the 1990s. Leonard 'Big Lenny' Dello, 73. He was given his own crew, according to a report by JD, which consisted of the five members;1. 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. Norway. 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. The Dols murder was committed because the officer married a woman that had married Colombo family members three times before. 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. He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. What a change socially and politically.. 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. Tommy told me. 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. 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. Unfortunately, Frank was murdered in April of 1998. In other words, Gioeli has the potential to influence people, if he's allowed to walk beyond the confinements of the state penitentiary. All Rights Reserved. The brothers split the proceeds among themselves, Calabro, and others. The murdered cop was left to stagger bleeding into his house and die before his horrified wife. Calabro said he had uttered an oath. That, Tommy hoped, would mark an all-too-peaceful end to his violent career in the Colombo crime family. There were more unsuccessful heists, showing just how lucky the crew was not to get caught. Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. Government witness Dino Calabro claimed that Gioeli told him he was "going to hell" for killing a nun. [11][12][13], In July 2010, Gioeli was indicted in the 1997 Dols murder. "I wanted what he had, Calabro later testified about Gioeli. His protg and driver, Gaetano' Guy' Fatato, began wearing a wire in late 2005 and tipping the feds off about high-profile meetings Sonny was having with mob officials in several Long Island eateries. 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. He's a nut. 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