by NYNighthawk » Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:43 pm
They truly were scumbags - using seven (7) bastards to kill one man:
nother mob associate who died last week was Richard "Redbird" Gomes, an admitted participant in the revenge slaying of John Favara, a Queens man who killed John Gotti's 12-year-old son in a tragic car accident. Gomes died of natural causes in his hometown of Providence, R.I. He was 73.
Gomes met and befriended Gotti in the 1960s, when both were small-time hoods doing time at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa. A photo of the late Dapper Don was on a wall in Gomes's apartment, where two of his nieces found him dead, police said.
The friendship blossomed, so much so, Gomes told cops in 1989, that he performed an act of supreme loyalty for the up-and-coming mobster in July 1980 by teaming with seven other Gotti crew members to kill Favara. It was Gomes who personally notified Gotti that the dirty deed had been done, according to documents obtained by Gang Land.
At the time Redbird told Providence police about the Favara killing, he was facing 40 years for murder and planning to cooperate. Gomes said he had clubbed Favara with a 2-by-4 and helped toss him into a blue van that the hit team used to abduct him outside his office in New Hyde Park, Long Island.
Gomes said the gang also used two cars in the murder plot, disposing of Favara's body and crushing his car in Brooklyn, so no evidence would ever be found. Gomes later regretted his confession and tried to recant, but authorities believe his account was accurate, though no one was ever charged in the slaying.
Released from prison a year ago, Redbird had been using cocaine and drinking heavily of late, according to Rhode Island State Police, who told Gang Land that the abuses likely contributed to his death.
Gomes, whose first arrest was at age 12 for breaking into a freight train in Providence, spent 50 years in reform school and prisons for crimes ranging from desertion to murder.
"Inside [prison], he was a somebody, but outside he was a nobody," Major Steven O'Donnell of the Rhode Island State Police said. He added that most members of New England's Patriarca family avoided Redbird following his release from prison.
His drug use and his propensity for violence were contributing factors, but there's little doubt he was shunned primarily for his brief fling as an informer about the Favara killing.
"They didn't trust him," Major O'-Donnell told Gang Land. "They were leery about him because of the allegations that were written about him and the publicly filed documents that outlined his contacts with law enforcement."
They truly were scumbags - using seven (7) bastards to kill one man:
nother mob associate who died last week was Richard "Redbird" Gomes, an admitted participant in the revenge slaying of John Favara, a Queens man who killed John Gotti's 12-year-old son in a tragic car accident. Gomes died of natural causes in his hometown of Providence, R.I. He was 73.
Gomes met and befriended Gotti in the 1960s, when both were small-time hoods doing time at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa. A photo of the late Dapper Don was on a wall in Gomes's apartment, where two of his nieces found him dead, police said.
The friendship blossomed, so much so, Gomes told cops in 1989, that he performed an act of supreme loyalty for the up-and-coming mobster in July 1980 by teaming with seven other Gotti crew members to kill Favara. It was Gomes who personally notified Gotti that the dirty deed had been done, according to documents obtained by Gang Land.
At the time Redbird told Providence police about the Favara killing, he was facing 40 years for murder and planning to cooperate. Gomes said he had clubbed Favara with a 2-by-4 and helped toss him into a blue van that the hit team used to abduct him outside his office in New Hyde Park, Long Island.
Gomes said the gang also used two cars in the murder plot, disposing of Favara's body and crushing his car in Brooklyn, so no evidence would ever be found. Gomes later regretted his confession and tried to recant, but authorities believe his account was accurate, though no one was ever charged in the slaying.
Released from prison a year ago, Redbird had been using cocaine and drinking heavily of late, according to Rhode Island State Police, who told Gang Land that the abuses likely contributed to his death.
Gomes, whose first arrest was at age 12 for breaking into a freight train in Providence, spent 50 years in reform school and prisons for crimes ranging from desertion to murder.
"Inside [prison], he was a somebody, but outside he was a nobody," Major Steven O'Donnell of the Rhode Island State Police said. He added that most members of New England's Patriarca family avoided Redbird following his release from prison.
His drug use and his propensity for violence were contributing factors, but there's little doubt he was shunned primarily for his brief fling as an informer about the Favara killing.
"They didn't trust him," Major O'-Donnell told Gang Land. "They were leery about him because of the allegations that were written about him and the publicly filed documents that outlined his contacts with law enforcement."