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. News sources also reported that a Colombo family associate serving a "life sentence for murder and racketeering" was also being eyed in the murder. Therefore, following his ceremony, Calabro was not placed in Tommy Gioeli's crew, but in Ralph Lombardo's Middle Village decina. After the first trial ended in a hung jury, the feds brought forward more witnesses the second time around and made a few more unsubstantiated allegations. Rousted early in the morning, Gioeli was hauled off in a grey hoodie, rumpled white tee and basketball shorts. 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. "In a less successful operation, Calabro, Sebby Saracino, and Richie Greaves were the burglars while Tommy Machines and Little Dino acted as lookouts outside. "Colombo boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli charged with '97 slay of cop". When Dave again asked if it was "that bad," Saracino seemed nonchalant. 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. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011. Jimmy Gooch, according to a sentencing memo cited in a Gang Land News article from October 18, 2012, "passed a message to Calabro" that the debtor "had reached out to a Genovese soldier." He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. Unfortunately, Frank was murdered in April of 1998. On paper, he was unemployed, thanks to a laundry list of health problems that included diabetes, heart problems, and a back injury he got working in a flower shop. 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. Truckloads of loot were regularly taken from one particular L.I. Once upon a time, prospective wiseguys were never told when they were going to be made - they were ordered to dress nice and meet somewhere. 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. To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand. Bloody shootouts between the two factions in 1991 resulted in murders of prominent Orena supporters. 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. 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. When Miciotta started blabbing about the murder in 1993 as part of his cooperation with the government, nobody was left to prosecute. Tommy "Machines" Gioeli extorted money out of various card game operators all over the city. 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." Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli had his request for a prison furlough to attend his daughter's wedding shot down by a Brooklyn federal judge. His job was to "get close to Lombardo" and whack him, according to court documents uncovered by Gang Land News on May 26, 2011. Be- fore betraying their crime leader as government witnesses, Competiello and Calabro had been loyal dogs. Tommy also shook down an unnamed Colombo associate's lucrative bookmaking operation. Gioeli was wounded in the shoulder and stomach, earning him the nickname "Tommy Shots" and a reputation for toughness.[5]. [4], On March 27, 1992, Gioeli and several Persico loyalists were ambushed, and became involved in a high-speed car chase. By 1989, the 36-year-old Tommy was amassing an array of Joker-Poker machines; illegal video gaming devices which he would install (forcibly or otherwise) in local establishments from Brooklyn to Long Island. Unlike Scarpa, Thomas 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli made few headlines during his decade-long murder spree which saw him and his crew rack up nine bodies. 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. 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). On March 16, 2008 - Palm Sunday - Maragni was brought to a basement in a makeshift Bronx social club. The following day, Maragni met with Imbergamo at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Staten Island to iron it out. Even as he continued to hold induction ceremonies, attend mobbed-up weddings and hang out at connected clubs, he privately called his two closest pals - Dino Calabro and Joe Competiello - to a potentially life-changing meeting. 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. Twenty years later, when he moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Maragni became the "liaison" to New York for Floridian associates. In a reflective moment, Gioeli speaks of voting for Barack Obama from behind bars via absentee ballot. But former President D Victoria Gottis mansion featured in the hit reality show Growing Up Gotti has been foreclosed on by a bank, real estate records show. 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. As far as Colombos go, Gioeli had a good run and didn't see the inside of a jail cell until 21 years after he was made, and five years into his reign as boss. On March 19 . The blog enabled Gioeli to register objections when he was allowed to attend neither his daughters wedding nor his fathers funeral. If I repeat anything that happens in here, I should die and burn in hell, Calabro recalled. The sleepy-looking Tommy was hit with a barrage of cameras as he did the 'perp walk' outside Brooklyn Federal Court, shouldered by two typical-looking FBI agents. 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 shook down area business owners for "protection money," according to court papers, including the owner of a nightclub on Route 110 for $2000 a month. "Thank god for all the girls in this world," Dino chuckled. According to his indictment, Souza dispatched associates to watch Pagan at his house and around Staten Island. Gioeli nixed the idea - "Absolutely not," he said. 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. It felt good when he won; no it felt great, Gioeli says. 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 shakedowns weren't the only hustle going on. "A bunch of people are going to go down," said another source familiar with the case. By the summer of 2002, Big Dino Calabro was also an official capo, thanks to his relationship with Tommy Shots. Allie, the son of imprisoned-for-life Colombo caporegime Anthony 'Chucky' Russo, sports a conviction from 1997 for assault but has not been linked to the affairs of his family's crime clan. When he wasn't being schooled on crime by Gioeli and Calabro, The Rock could be found at a candy store called "The Corner" on 75th St. and 20th Ave. Gioeli, at least a decade older than his underlings, became almost like a surrogate father for the group and schooled the delinquent teens on how to stick up stores, burglarize banks, and pull off home invasions. Through it all, Tommy artfully avoided FBI scrutiny, never dropping the ball when it came to counter-surveillance. Zuraw, who had no ties whatsoever to organized crime, was hanging shirts in a closet and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. 2. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. He didn't want anybody having to take the burden of being the "fall guy." That's fucked up, 17 years, D." Little Dino confirmed that he was looking at that sort of time for his crimes. 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. The family had barely survived a brutal civil war from 1991 to 1993 that left almost a dozen people gunned down, but Tommy had been instrumental in rebuilding the family and bridging the gap between the discontent factions. If I repeat anything that happens in here, I should die and burn in hell, Calabro recalled. In 1989, the imprisoned Colombo boss Carmine Persico appointed Orena to be his temporary acting boss. But, in Maragni's case, he would need to book flights and arrange for accommodation in the Big Apple, so he had to be notified beforehand. 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. Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli had his request for a prison furlough to attend his daughter's wedding shot down by a Brooklyn federal judge. The pool is getting a new liner, gutter and deck, along with new filtration systems. The case against Sonny is the tip of the iceberg," Gang Land quoted one knowledgeable source as saying. Prosecutors said that Mr. Gioeli, who was known as Tommy Shots, started as a low-ranking member of the Colombo crime family but climbed the ranks. Figuring that the gamblers' lives may have been in danger, despite Uvino declining a push by Fatato to have them murdered, the feds obtained an arrest warrant for those involved and whisked Fatato, his wife and kids away into the Witness Protection Program. And my spellings worse.. Peraino Sr. was hit in the buttocks, but he survived for another sixteen years. But by 2008, prosecutors had finally found their way in. Thats just a rule in the Mafia. Coffee boys could make $1000 a week before the mob showed up and charged them $250 weekly for the job privilege. "I think so." 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. Terrible, he said. Better yet, despite being charged with six murders, including an NYPD officer, Gioeli is slated to exit prison in 2024 at the age of 71. April 1992 - Orena . In the late 1990s, Persico and John DeRoss promoted Gioeli to Caporegime. She does a little bit of editing, Gioeli allows. He was scribbling busily on a notepad--and some of it might even end up in the first accused-mob-boss blog. weird laws in guatemala; les vraies raisons de la guerre en irak; lake norman waterfront condos for sale by owner 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. This may have been an overstatement, but there's no question that the Perainos were among the top of America's pornography industry. The brothers split the proceeds among themselves, Calabro, and others. [6], In May 1999, Gioeli, Dino Calabro, and Dino Saracino allegedly murdered William Cutolo, the new Colombo underboss, in Saracino's apartment. 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. Already diagnosed with diabetes and cardiac problems, Gioeli had unsuccessfully petitioned the court on February 8 to be released from jail due to his medical problems. 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Vincent 'Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro, 66, an influential Brooklyn-based soldier who was a good pal of Persico faction acting boss Joe Tomasello during the war. Also released from prison during this timeframe was Carmine Persico's nephew, Theodore' Skinny Teddy' Persico Jr., who partnered up with his in-law (and former rival) Tom Petrizzo into the construction, demolition, and the trucking industries. At the time of this article's publication, Franzese is 102 years old and working with Newsday in a documentary about his life. 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. Initially, according to JD, Joey Caves was told to report to capo Vinny Ricciardo, who was on bail on charges of labor racketeering. His public appearance in the underworld goes to show that Tommy Shots always kept up appearances, even when the government made it clear that he was under intense scrutiny. By John Marzulli, Daily News. The pass, which expired in 1987, was given to Gioeli back in the 1980s when he worked for an outfit that provided "attractive cigarette girls" for the magazine's promotion of a club in the Hamptons, according to Nightlife's editor Michael Cutino. He might live to be a hundred." Rzeszw, au sud-est de la Pologne, quelques coups de canons de la frontire ukrainienne, est la ville la plus peuple du coin, avec 195 000 habitants. . 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. "You're gonna have to plea out? New York Daily News. Twenty-one years later, Calabro was up on the witness stand fingering Gioeli for murder after murder. Even if the small businessman refused, the Mafia always managed to push them into shops one way or another. And, when burying a victim, the standard practice was to dump in a bag of lime. Calabro testified that Gioeli had been something of a mentor, advising him on how to kill. "Oh, it's bad then, huh D?" Five Families of New York City | Powered by BloggerDesign by Hudson Theme | Blogger Theme by NewBloggerThemes.com. 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. The goons did as they were told, but the restauranteur called for Genovese soldier Salvatore DeMeo to back him in a sitdown. One way or another, Tommy Machines took an instant liking to the Sicilian-born car thief, and Calabro felt the same way. Gioelis wife and at least one of his daughters sat in the courtroom as admitted capo and hit man Big Dino Calabro took the stand as the governments star witness. He was there to discuss his future and, by extension, the future of New Yorks most violent and turbulent Mafia clan. Tommy Shots apologized to Ren at the wedding of Allie Russo, which took place shortly after Ren's induction. An accused Mafia kingpin has started a blog from prison:. You see, the photos were obtained from the Gioeli's Long Island house by Andrea Calabro, wife of Dino "Big Dino" Calabro, as a way to curry favor for her hubby with the Feds. All rights reserved. Gang Land News, correctly, predicted that the case against Sonny was just the beginning of the feds' onslaught on the crime family. To go after this old man for crimes he may or may not have committed Gioeli says. Fellow Queens capo, Ralphie Lombardo, who was released from prison in 2006, was still viewed with distrust by Gioeli. Lawyers for the prosecution say the photos (and an address book!) We dont typically kill police officers, he said. To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand. They had been collared as being two of the "45 top porn wholesalers across the country.". Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello (Source: NY Post), Thomas Gioeli after his arrest (Source: NY Times), Joey Competiello after his arrest (Source: NY Daily News), Dino Calabro after his arrest (Source: Newsday). For this, he used the Nextel walkie-talkie feature on his cell phone. 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. He dabbled in all kinds of schemes, from loansharking, gambling, check-cashing scams, to selling Viagra over the internet with DeCavalcante family mobsters. Gioeli has also complained to the court about his dental problems, the poor quality of the jail food, and allegedly unsanitary practices in the dispensation of his medicine. Twenty-one years later, Calabro was up on the witness stand fingering Gioeli for murder after murder. 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. 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. "Will you put money in my commissary?" One of the crew's most successful heists took place in Syosset, Long Island, at Furs by Mina on 408 Jericho Turnpike. In 2007, Dino Calabro represented Ralph Scopo Jr. at a sitdown with a union foreman on the World Trade Center site. Soon, along withJoJo, Gioeli became a fixture in both Brooklyn and Long Island Mafia circles. Calabro insisted that he had not known the victim was a cop at the time of the shooting. His website, "Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioeli's Voice", has taken on subjects as wide-ranging as religion, politics and penal reform. Other schemes were plagued with problems. What a change socially and politically.. 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. A federal judge ruled that Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli will have to use his portion of the lawsuit cash, more than $182,000, to pay restitution to his victims as part of his 18-and-a-half year . "People were reminding me this was my friend's wedding don't make a scene; don't get into a dust-up." Tommy had instructed me to take a shower, because when you shoot a gun, you get gunpowder residue on you, Calabro said. Although they were wrong about who and where, trial testimony proved to Gioeli that the feds were intent of nabbing him too for the crime. When the FBI searched Gioeli's house in 2008, among the items they discovered were a photo of Tommy andJoJoin 1972, with broad smiles on their faces in front of a Farmingdale candy store. 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. Gioeli was not actually charged with killing the nun, but he remained accused of six murders when he went on trial this month. ", For the time being, Tommy Gioeli's composure and presentation seemed to work, at least for Little Dino Saracino. He demonstrated himself to be the most modern of alleged mob bosses. Thomas Gioeli was born in 1953 to Salvatore & Julie Gioeli and grew up in the quaint Long Island village of Farmingdale. 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. 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. 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. Apparently, Cacace "suggested luring Lombardo to Cacace's boat and killing him there," according to the documents, and the crew seemed to be close to getting it done. Soldier Frank 'Frankie Camp' Campione, 65, a close friend of Sonny Franzese who got a bit too chatty with Sonny's son. Lee sometimes uses social media as a medium to show off her beautiful daughters. 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. 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. And, when burying a victim, the standard practice was to dump in a bag of lime. 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. ", It wouldn't be until later the following year that Gioeli finally stepped into Cacace's shoes to officially serve as "captain of all captains," as Joe Competiello called him. Gothamist is a website about New York City news, arts, events and food, brought to you by New York Public Radio. The trio kicked in drywall to enter the building and started using a blowtorch to open a bank's safe. The names of her daughter are Havalli and Samaria. Paul 'Paulie Guns' Bevacqua, 61, a Long Island-based aide of Gioeli. With Joey Competiello as the getaway driver, they made off with $20,000, which they split with Tommy. 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. Dino and Joey set out east, but Johnny was already gone. 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. In 2004, according to the complaint, Calabro met the youngest Scopo when his father brought him along to his regular get-together with Calabro at a "bagel store on Route 109 on West Babylon" to hash out the money that the pair had made in the union." Hes given up his mob life podcast, but not his life of crime, the feds say. The triggerman, soldier Salvatore 'Big Sal' Miciotta - who was inducted in the same ceremony as Peraino Jr. - fled the scene, forced to report his failure back to his capo Chucky Russo. However, Gioeli maintains his innocence and no charges in the Zuraw killing have been filed against him. He began wearing a wire in March of 2008. They had received a tip that a Coney Island. With that murder looming over their heads, the trio discussed whether their career in the Colombo crime family would have to end, according to Competiello's trial testimony. The murdered cop was left to stagger bleeding into his house and die before his horrified wife. Reynalda, this is Tommy Gioeli amigo nostro, acting boss of the Colombo family." 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. Gioeli was cleared of the Cutolo and Dols murders, but convicted of racketeering conspiracy to commit murder in the Minerva and Marasa cases. Interestingly enough, even though Miciotta himself admitted he "hated" Gioeli, he didn't name him or Carna as being in the crash car. Feds pulled phone records from the day of the murder that seemed to back their allegation. During this meeting, Scopo Jr. gave Calabro $10,000 as his monthly share from the shakedown" of one contractor, the complaint said. Along the way, he cultivated a small crew of . 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. In fact, in 1991, Little Dino and Joey Caves stuck up a Brooklyn candy store and scored a pitiful $250, which they dutifully split among themselves and Big Dino. Talking to Tommy is just like talking to me."). "What was I going to do in my 40s?" The charges against 59-year-old Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli include six murders, among them the killing of a police officer. Maragni dutifully obeyed and was greeted at the hotel by Don Gioeli and two other wiseguys, Jimmy Padulla, and Dennis DeLucia. A mobster's wish of giving his daughter away at her wedding doesn't have the feds' blessing. 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. 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