Anthony Casso’s first time pulling the trigger

[Little_Al1991]

The contract came from Christopher ”Christie Tick“ Furnari which stemmed from a problem with a man named Sam the Jew who was a drug dealer reporting to Furnari.One of Sam’s customers was a police informant.Sam told Christie Tick about his problem.Furnari said that he would take care of it.Christie decided to give the issue to Anthony Casso.

The parts in quotations are from Anthony Casso’s book and then later from a letter which was sent to Furnari

“Anthony didn’t like anything about Sam the Jew: his walk, his talk, his shifty manner. But all of that had nothing to do with the request Christie put on the table, knowing the answer.”
“Will you do it?” Christie asked.
“For you, of course,” Casso said, always looking to build bridges and make loyal allies.
“Good. The Jew’ll set him up. You work it out with him, okay?”
“Okay,” Casso said, thinking that if Sam was as tough as everyone said, he’d have killed the snitch himself.

They were playing cards at a social club with a couple of people who were also on the hit and then “Casso fluidly—like the strike of a cobra—drew the weapon, put it to the man’s head, and pulled the trigger.”
Bang.
He hit his mark. The man went down like a wet bag of cement. A thick finger of blood pulsated from the sudden dime-sized hole Casso had put in his head. It was over and done in a split second, little more than the bat of a long-lashed eye.
“Get the blankets,” Casso told Junior, who for some reason had be- come unhinged by what he’d just seen. He was, to Casso’s dismay, farting repeatedly.
“Stop it,” Casso said.
“I’m sorry, I can’t,” Junior said.
Calm and cool, Ronnie Esposito came in. “All clear outside,” he said.
Junior Maguire, continuing to break wind, bent to help clean up.
By now, the mark’s heart had stopped and the bleeding had ended. They wrapped him tightly in some old army blan- kets and used rags and hot water to wash the blood off the floor. Junior Maguire tried to pick up the body, but he was farting so much, Anthony pushed him aside and picked up the body himself.

This murder later came back to haunt Furnari when he was applying for parole.Anthony Casso, his protégé, implicated Furnari in the murder which led to Furnari’s parole being denied in 1996.Information from court documents available on the internet have revealed this.”On August 19, 1997, the National Appeals Board affirmed that decision. (Doc. No. 4, Ex. D, Notice of Action on Appeal). The National Appeals Board found that:
“You have properly been held accountable for murders committed to further the purposes of the Lucchese or other crime families. At a minimum, as the capo of a crew in the Lucchese family, you were in a position to be informed of murders ordered by the boss of the family. Given the hierarchical nature of the organization, it is likely that you directed the murderous acts of your crew members. And, in fact, the Parole Commission finds the information from the U.S. Attorney's Office on your personal responsibility for several of the murders (victims Schleifer, Taglianetti, and DeCicco) and attempted murder (victim Abinanti) to be credible and reliable, even though much of the information may have come from Anthony Casso, one of the most violent members of your organization.”
“Your parole denial is warranted because you approved or participated in the planning of a contract murder. (Taglianetti), the murder of a potential informant/witness (Schleifer), and a murder and attempted murder to further the aims of an on-going criminal organization (DeCicco and Abinanti, respectively). Any one of these crimes would support a parole denial. There are no mitigating factors, including your age, that justify your parole when weighed against the aggravated nature of the crimes.”

Casso’s cooperation really effected Furnari’s chances of parole, it cost him many more years in prison though in 2014, Furnari was released on parole due to his deteriorating health and advanced age.This information was released due to an FOIA on Furnari who had served 27 years in prison stemming from the Commission Trial.Furnari passed away at the age of 94 in 2018.Casso passed away on December 15th,2020, at the banner university medical centre in Tucson while he was on a ventilator.He was 78 years old.

[Shellackhead]

I always thought that his first murder was that rapist be shot in the street

[Little_Al1991]

I always thought that his first murder was that rapist be shot in the street

I think you are referring to an incident that took place which consisted of a junkie harassing this girl that Casso knew, so he decided to shoot the person but he survived.The person had connections to the Genovese Family, if I remember correctly so this caused an issue for Casso at the beginning but then later on, it was sorted out.

[johnny_scootch]

Who is the Abinanti referred to above? Pete the Killer?

[Little_Al1991]

Who is the Abinanti referred to above? Pete the Killer?

It is not Pete the Killer.I couldn’t find out who it was

[PaddyWhack]

Who is the Abinanti referred to above? Pete the Killer?

It is not Pete the Killer.I couldn’t find out who it was

It was Pete’s son Joseph .

[johnny_scootch]

Joe got shot up bad once, did that come from Christy Tick?

[Little_Al1991]

Joe got shot up bad once, did that come from Christy Tick?

Joe?

[PaddyWhack]

Joe got shot up bad once, did that come from Christy Tick?

Assistant U.S. Attorney David N. Kelley wrote a letter to the Parole Commission dated August 1, 1996, detailing Furnari's involvement in various crimes, including the murders of Lee Schleifer, Richard Taglianetti and Frank DeCicco, and the attempted murder of Joseph Abinanti. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelley's letter was based largely on information received from Anthony Casso, Thomas Carew and Alfonso D'Arco. See Furnari vs. U.S. Parole Commission, Civil Action No. 4:02-CV-0555, slip op. at pp. 4-5 (M.D. Pa. April 4, 2002).

[johnny_scootch]

I wonder if this murder attempt Furnari is connected to is the one where Joe was shot in Bed Stuy in the late 70’s?

[PaddyWhack]

Yes that’s the one. I believe in 79. Joe lives in California. D’Arco said Kansas wanted to make him a member .

[johnny_scootch]

Well I’m properly confused on this one. Christy Tick is involved with trying to kill Pete’s son!?! I must have posted this story at some point in the past that Ray Argentina was used by Paulie and Pete to kill one of the guys who shot Joe and it’s that hit that got him proposed and straightened out…….But now after hearing Christy Tick was involved the story is 1000 times more interesting.

I wonder what really happened because it’s not like Joe was on the outs with the Lucchese family at that time and his father was an acting captain. He was in good standing at least until the DiLapi hit with Joe D’Arco in the 90’s.

Maybe there was a beef between the Vario and 19th hole crews that took a few lives and gave some younger guys time to shine?

It’s a story I’d love to hear.

[Little_Al1991]

Well I’m properly confused on this one. Christy Tick is involved with trying to kill Pete’s son!?! I must have posted this story at some point in the past that Ray Argentina was used by Paulie and Pete to kill one of the guys who shot Joe and it’s that hit that got him proposed and straightened out…….But now after hearing Christy Tick was involved the story is 1000 times more interesting.

I wonder what really happened because it’s not like Joe was on the outs with the Lucchese family at that time and his father was an acting captain. He was in good standing at least until the DiLapi hit with Joe D’Arco in the 90’s.

Maybe there was a beef between the Vario and 19th hole crews that took a few lives and gave some younger guys time to shine?

It’s a story I’d love to hear.

Ray Argentina is described as an extremely tough guy.He was also very close to Louis “Louie Bagels” Daidone who was the Acting Boss of the Lucchese Family from 2000 until 2003.He was sentenced to life in 2004.Ray was released in 2019, if I remember correctly.The current administration of the family will benefit him.

[Hired_Goonz]

So how many guys did Gaspipe kill by his own hand? There's this potential informant here he killed for Furnari, I thought I remembered from his book that he claimed to have shot a guy dead in broad daylight on the street for raping a girl or something but someone in this thread said that the guy survived. I think the guy was a jockey or something? But it sounded like something from the movies to begin with. So there's also the young guy in Florida involved with his ganja importation that he shot who started moving when they threw him in the hole, and Gas buried him alive. And then there's the torture/murder of Jimmy Hydell. Any others?

[Little_Al1991]

So how many guys did Gaspipe kill by his own hand? There's this potential informant here he killed for Furnari, I thought I remembered from his book that he claimed to have shot a guy dead in broad daylight on the street for raping a girl or something but someone in this thread said that the guy survived. I think the guy was a jockey or something? But it sounded like something from the movies to begin with. So there's also the young guy in Florida involved with his ganja importation that he shot who started moving when they threw him in the hole, and Gas buried him alive. And then there's the torture/murder of Jimmy Hydell. Any others?

Gaspipe admitted to 36 murders but I don’t know how much he committed by personally pulling the trigger.