by Chaps » Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:20 pm
From Gangland News: Concerning the hit on Gerard Pappa (a Genovese Soldier) in 1980:
"Unlike Rea, the second gunman, Red Hot Gentile, had numerous encounters with the law. He spent 10 years in state prison for armed robbery, and was involved in the Attica prison riot in 1970. He beat the Pappa murder rap, however, when he dropped dead of a heart attack on First Avenue in Manhattan, shortly after walking out of a well known wiseguy hangout, but otherwise fine bakery, DeRobertis Pastry Shop in 2003, at age 68.
Sources say that Rea and Red Hot each earned induction into the crime family of his choice because of their “work” in the Pappa rubout. Gentile’s nickname, according to a knowledgeable source, evolved from his childhood obsession with the tiny Red Hot cinnamon candies.
Sources tell Gang Land that FBI agents began looking into the unusual Bonanno-Genovese murder team around the time of Gentile’s death. The investigation determined, sources say, that the two-family caper stemmed from familial connections between the Genovese capo Dominick (Swaggy) Carlucci, who was Pappa’s mob supervisor, and his nephew, Bonanno soldier Ronald (Ronnie Mozzarella) Carlucci, who is not implicated in the murder."
From Gangland News: Concerning the hit on Gerard Pappa (a Genovese Soldier) in 1980:
"Unlike Rea, the second gunman, Red Hot Gentile, had numerous encounters with the law. He spent 10 years in state prison for armed robbery, and was involved in the Attica prison riot in 1970. He beat the Pappa murder rap, however, when he dropped dead of a heart attack on First Avenue in Manhattan, shortly after walking out of a well known wiseguy hangout, but otherwise fine bakery, DeRobertis Pastry Shop in 2003, at age 68.
Sources say that Rea and Red Hot each earned induction into the crime family of his choice because of their “work” in the Pappa rubout. Gentile’s nickname, according to a knowledgeable source, evolved from his childhood obsession with the tiny Red Hot cinnamon candies.
Sources tell Gang Land that FBI agents began looking into the unusual Bonanno-Genovese murder team around the time of Gentile’s death. The investigation determined, sources say, that the two-family caper stemmed from familial connections between the Genovese capo Dominick (Swaggy) Carlucci, who was Pappa’s mob supervisor, and his nephew, Bonanno soldier Ronald (Ronnie Mozzarella) Carlucci, who is not implicated in the murder."