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The Return Of Little Al: Old-School Genovese Mob Bookie Gets Break From Fed Judge, Released Because Of Bad Health
December 27
Scott Burnstein
December 27, 2022 — New Jersey wiseguy Alan (Little Al) Grecco was recently granted a compassionate release from his 65-year federal prison sentence for racketeering due to failing health, according to last week’s Gangland News. Little Al got out of the clink in November after more than three decades doing hard time.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Greeco ran a multi-million-dollar bookmaking ring for the New York mob and was his father-in-law, Genovese crime family caporegime Louis (Streaky) Gatto’s right hand man. They were both indicted in December 1989 on racketeering and murder charges out of Newark.
Streaky Gatto oversaw rackets in Bergen and Passaic Counties. He died in prison in 2002 at the age of 86. Greeco married Gatto’s daughter Debbie and changed his surname from Wolshonak to his mother’s maiden name of Grecco at Gatto’s request following Gatto’s promotion to capo in the late 1970s, according to New Jersey State Police records.
Little Al Grecco and Streaky Gatto beat the first-degree murder counts at their 1991 trial, but were convicted of racketeering, which included gambling, loan sharking and extortion. Greeco was found guilty of conspiracy in the April 1979 murder of Vinnie Mistretta, who was stabbed to death with an ice pick and told responding police, “Wolshonak,” was responsible for the attack before he breathed his final breath. Mistretta was a trunk driver in a dispute with Grecco over ownership of a car and began informing on the Gatto crew, even arriving at the Lodi Social Club with the police and FBI in tow to retrieve the vehicle in question and point the finger at Grecco face-to-face.
The FBI suspects the 79-year old Little Al Grecco played a role in multiple gangland hits ordered by Streaky Gatto;
-In the fall of 1977, Jersey bookie Arthur Belli disappeared on his way to meet Gatto and Grecco in the days after he got out of prison. Grecco absorbed Belli’s sports gambling business into his own in the wake of Belli’s slaying. Gatto and Grecco were acquitted of murdering Belli at trial almost 25 years later.
-Grecco’s former pal and Gatto crew member Johnny Lombardi was killed in 1974 for being an informant. Lombardi and Greeco were involved in truck hijackings together. Lombardi went missing on his way to meet Little Al. Two witnesses told a grand jury that Grecco killed Lombardi, but the grand jury didn’t result in an indictment, per sources and court documents.
-Another Gatto crew member, Pete Adamo, was also allegedly killed for being an informant in 1982, although unintentionally — he was beaten to death accidentally — and Grecco’s name found its way into the investigation, according to court and New Jersey State Police records. Upon word spreading that Adamo was working with police, Grecco reportedly told people in his inner-circle that he was going to “take care of the situation,” per those records. One witness told authorities he was present when an assault on Adamo inside a mob social club “got out of hand” and Adamo wound up dead.
-New Jersey mob associate John (Handsome Jack) Ciaramella was murdered in August 1988 when he fell under the microscope of the FBI and IRS for laundering Gatto crew money. Grecco and other crew members took “no-show job” paychecks from Ciaramella’s basement waterproofing business. Ciaramella once named Grecco as one of the executors of his will worth 2 million bucks.
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The Return Of Little Al: Old-School Genovese Mob Bookie Gets Break From Fed Judge, Released Because Of Bad Health
December 27
Scott Burnstein
December 27, 2022 — New Jersey wiseguy Alan (Little Al) Grecco was recently granted a compassionate release from his 65-year federal prison sentence for racketeering due to failing health, according to last week’s Gangland News. Little Al got out of the clink in November after more than three decades doing hard time.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Greeco ran a multi-million-dollar bookmaking ring for the New York mob and was his father-in-law, Genovese crime family caporegime Louis (Streaky) Gatto’s right hand man. They were both indicted in December 1989 on racketeering and murder charges out of Newark.
Streaky Gatto oversaw rackets in Bergen and Passaic Counties. He died in prison in 2002 at the age of 86. Greeco married Gatto’s daughter Debbie and changed his surname from Wolshonak to his mother’s maiden name of Grecco at Gatto’s request following Gatto’s promotion to capo in the late 1970s, according to New Jersey State Police records.
Little Al Grecco and Streaky Gatto beat the first-degree murder counts at their 1991 trial, but were convicted of racketeering, which included gambling, loan sharking and extortion. Greeco was found guilty of conspiracy in the April 1979 murder of Vinnie Mistretta, who was stabbed to death with an ice pick and told responding police, “Wolshonak,” was responsible for the attack before he breathed his final breath. Mistretta was a trunk driver in a dispute with Grecco over ownership of a car and began informing on the Gatto crew, even arriving at the Lodi Social Club with the police and FBI in tow to retrieve the vehicle in question and point the finger at Grecco face-to-face.
The FBI suspects the 79-year old Little Al Grecco played a role in multiple gangland hits ordered by Streaky Gatto;
-In the fall of 1977, Jersey bookie Arthur Belli disappeared on his way to meet Gatto and Grecco in the days after he got out of prison. Grecco absorbed Belli’s sports gambling business into his own in the wake of Belli’s slaying. Gatto and Grecco were acquitted of murdering Belli at trial almost 25 years later.
-Grecco’s former pal and Gatto crew member Johnny Lombardi was killed in 1974 for being an informant. Lombardi and Greeco were involved in truck hijackings together. Lombardi went missing on his way to meet Little Al. Two witnesses told a grand jury that Grecco killed Lombardi, but the grand jury didn’t result in an indictment, per sources and court documents.
-Another Gatto crew member, Pete Adamo, was also allegedly killed for being an informant in 1982, although unintentionally — he was beaten to death accidentally — and Grecco’s name found its way into the investigation, according to court and New Jersey State Police records. Upon word spreading that Adamo was working with police, Grecco reportedly told people in his inner-circle that he was going to “take care of the situation,” per those records. One witness told authorities he was present when an assault on Adamo inside a mob social club “got out of hand” and Adamo wound up dead.
-New Jersey mob associate John (Handsome Jack) Ciaramella was murdered in August 1988 when he fell under the microscope of the FBI and IRS for laundering Gatto crew money. Grecco and other crew members took “no-show job” paychecks from Ciaramella’s basement waterproofing business. Ciaramella once named Grecco as one of the executors of his will worth 2 million bucks.