Can anyone direct me to some information about this dude. I find him to be interesting after reading about him somewhere.
Some idiot in North jersey told me he is or was like a jimmy burke type?
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Re: joe scarborough
He has a crappy show every morning on MSNBC.
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Re: joe scarborough
Unfortunately, there's not a lot of information available on him. He is described as a "mob crew boss" and Genovese associate in this article.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/03/07 ... 141709861/
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/03/07 ... 141709861/
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Another article that briefly mentions him:
Mob witness describes triple life
Caporino was businessman, numbers runner and FBI informant
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
BY JOHN P. MARTIN
Star-Ledger Staff
Peter "Petey Cap" Caporino spent about 40 years in the mob and nearly half that time as an FBI informant, but looks neither part, which might explain why he was successful at both.
Now 69, Caporino has a slight frame, thick white hair and wire-rimmed glasses. At his courtroom debut yesterday as a mob turncoat, he could have passed for a school administrator or maybe even a museum curator, wearing a light gray double-breasted suit and delivering clipped phrases in a slightly nasal North Jersey accent.
What poured forth, however, was Caporino's criminal autobiography, one that began with him running numbers as a young man at a freight company and ended with him running a hidden recorder during hundreds of conversations with Genovese crime family associates.
Caporino's library of tapes led to charges last summer against 16 defendants, prompting prosecutors to proclaim they had delivered "a body blow" to the state's dominant crime family. Fifteen of them, including high-ranking captain Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico, have pleaded guilty.
Michael Crincoli, accused of running loansharking operations from a Jersey City deli, was the lone holdout, the one who forced Caporino, the well-known and liked Hasbrouck Heights resident, from the shadows to the witness stand.
Crincoli's trial, now in its third week before U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, had so far been a parade of diner owners who testified they had borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from Crincoli at extortionate rates.
As the government's crowning witness, Caporino is expected to spend the next two days explaining to the jury his role as a prolific mob informant. Prosecutors hope he can persuade them Crincoli was not, as his attorney contends, a businessman lending friends money, but part of the organized crime family with Caporino.
"When you say 'our family,' what family were you with?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Schwartz asked.
"The Genovese," Caporino replied, matter of factly.
Caporino said he grew up in Hoboken, served three years in the Army and returned to work at a freight company in Fairfield. A co-worker asked if he wanted to help collect bets from workers.
"He said, 'I'll work the platform, you work the drivers,'" Caporino recalled. "I was a numbers runner."
Bettors won when their numbers matched the winning horses that day at Aqueduct or other racetracks. Caporino said he kept 25 percent of his gross collections, and passed the rest up the ladder.
After his father died, Caporino left the warehouse to take over the family business -- an amusement company that placed pinball machines and pool tables in taverns, he said.
But his numbers ring continued, growing got so big that he soon was introduced to James "Jimmy Nap" Napoli, a powerful Genovese captain. Caporino agreed to pay Napoli 25 percent of his proceeds. In return, he got protection; he was under the mob's wing.
"He said, 'If anyone ever approaches you, you just tell them you're with me, mention my name,'" Caporino recalled.
In 1969, the year of storybook seasons for the Jets and Mets, Caporino expanded into sports bookmaking. From then on, the names of his bosses changed but the operations remained largely the same.
After Napoli went to prison, Caporino said, he began paying $2,500 weekly tribute to Louis Anthony "Bobby" Manna, the New Jersey-based Genovese consigliere. He made his payments through intermediaries at reputed mob hangouts, like Casella's restaurant in Hoboken, and succeeded in getting Manna to ultimately lower his payoffs to $850 a week.
When Manna went to jail in 1988, Caporino said, he paid tributes to his wife, Ida Manna. And in 1998, he shifted his tribute to Joseph "Big Joe" Scarbrough, an associate in West Orange, who pleaded guilty in the case earlier this year.
Caporino had a club, the Character Club, along Monroe Street in Hoboken, where friends came to toss back drinks and "have a good time," he said. All the while Caporino had secretly been helping the FBI.
"I was an informant," he testified, his voice dropping a notch.
For how long? Schwartz, the prosecutor, asked.
"More than 15 years," Caporino replied.
Crincoli watched the witness intently at times, sometimes cracking a half-smile. Other times, he kicked his head back as if he was bored. Caporino rarely returned glances toward the defense table, instead focusing on the prosecutor.
In 2002, Caporino, his wife and about 30 others were arrested on state gambling charges. He decided to become a cooperating FBI witness.
"My wife had been to prison before, and I knew she couldn't do it again," Caporino testified. "I knew she wouldn't be able to do the time."
The couple also has a disabled adult daughter.
Caporino wore a pager for his numbers ring, so agents gave him one with a hidden recorder that they could activate remotely. Toward the end of the three-year probe, he said, they let him turn it on and off by himself.
He taped hundreds of conversations, although prosecutors are expected to play only about 30.
Caporino said he had been considering giving up the business, or relocating his operations. At one point, he said, he went to Philadelphia to meet with an associate who had relocated his betting rooms there.
"He told me how great it was down there, how you could operate much freer than you could up here," Caporino said. "So I went down for a look-see."
But he never made the move.
Mob witness describes triple life
Caporino was businessman, numbers runner and FBI informant
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
BY JOHN P. MARTIN
Star-Ledger Staff
Peter "Petey Cap" Caporino spent about 40 years in the mob and nearly half that time as an FBI informant, but looks neither part, which might explain why he was successful at both.
Now 69, Caporino has a slight frame, thick white hair and wire-rimmed glasses. At his courtroom debut yesterday as a mob turncoat, he could have passed for a school administrator or maybe even a museum curator, wearing a light gray double-breasted suit and delivering clipped phrases in a slightly nasal North Jersey accent.
What poured forth, however, was Caporino's criminal autobiography, one that began with him running numbers as a young man at a freight company and ended with him running a hidden recorder during hundreds of conversations with Genovese crime family associates.
Caporino's library of tapes led to charges last summer against 16 defendants, prompting prosecutors to proclaim they had delivered "a body blow" to the state's dominant crime family. Fifteen of them, including high-ranking captain Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico, have pleaded guilty.
Michael Crincoli, accused of running loansharking operations from a Jersey City deli, was the lone holdout, the one who forced Caporino, the well-known and liked Hasbrouck Heights resident, from the shadows to the witness stand.
Crincoli's trial, now in its third week before U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, had so far been a parade of diner owners who testified they had borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from Crincoli at extortionate rates.
As the government's crowning witness, Caporino is expected to spend the next two days explaining to the jury his role as a prolific mob informant. Prosecutors hope he can persuade them Crincoli was not, as his attorney contends, a businessman lending friends money, but part of the organized crime family with Caporino.
"When you say 'our family,' what family were you with?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Schwartz asked.
"The Genovese," Caporino replied, matter of factly.
Caporino said he grew up in Hoboken, served three years in the Army and returned to work at a freight company in Fairfield. A co-worker asked if he wanted to help collect bets from workers.
"He said, 'I'll work the platform, you work the drivers,'" Caporino recalled. "I was a numbers runner."
Bettors won when their numbers matched the winning horses that day at Aqueduct or other racetracks. Caporino said he kept 25 percent of his gross collections, and passed the rest up the ladder.
After his father died, Caporino left the warehouse to take over the family business -- an amusement company that placed pinball machines and pool tables in taverns, he said.
But his numbers ring continued, growing got so big that he soon was introduced to James "Jimmy Nap" Napoli, a powerful Genovese captain. Caporino agreed to pay Napoli 25 percent of his proceeds. In return, he got protection; he was under the mob's wing.
"He said, 'If anyone ever approaches you, you just tell them you're with me, mention my name,'" Caporino recalled.
In 1969, the year of storybook seasons for the Jets and Mets, Caporino expanded into sports bookmaking. From then on, the names of his bosses changed but the operations remained largely the same.
After Napoli went to prison, Caporino said, he began paying $2,500 weekly tribute to Louis Anthony "Bobby" Manna, the New Jersey-based Genovese consigliere. He made his payments through intermediaries at reputed mob hangouts, like Casella's restaurant in Hoboken, and succeeded in getting Manna to ultimately lower his payoffs to $850 a week.
When Manna went to jail in 1988, Caporino said, he paid tributes to his wife, Ida Manna. And in 1998, he shifted his tribute to Joseph "Big Joe" Scarbrough, an associate in West Orange, who pleaded guilty in the case earlier this year.
Caporino had a club, the Character Club, along Monroe Street in Hoboken, where friends came to toss back drinks and "have a good time," he said. All the while Caporino had secretly been helping the FBI.
"I was an informant," he testified, his voice dropping a notch.
For how long? Schwartz, the prosecutor, asked.
"More than 15 years," Caporino replied.
Crincoli watched the witness intently at times, sometimes cracking a half-smile. Other times, he kicked his head back as if he was bored. Caporino rarely returned glances toward the defense table, instead focusing on the prosecutor.
In 2002, Caporino, his wife and about 30 others were arrested on state gambling charges. He decided to become a cooperating FBI witness.
"My wife had been to prison before, and I knew she couldn't do it again," Caporino testified. "I knew she wouldn't be able to do the time."
The couple also has a disabled adult daughter.
Caporino wore a pager for his numbers ring, so agents gave him one with a hidden recorder that they could activate remotely. Toward the end of the three-year probe, he said, they let him turn it on and off by himself.
He taped hundreds of conversations, although prosecutors are expected to play only about 30.
Caporino said he had been considering giving up the business, or relocating his operations. At one point, he said, he went to Philadelphia to meet with an associate who had relocated his betting rooms there.
"He told me how great it was down there, how you could operate much freer than you could up here," Caporino said. "So I went down for a look-see."
But he never made the move.
"A thug changes, and love changes, and best friends become strangers. Word up."
Re: joe scarborough
TallGuy19 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:23 pm Another article that briefly mentions him:
Mob witness describes triple life
Caporino was businessman, numbers runner and FBI informant
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
BY JOHN P. MARTIN
Star-Ledger Staff
Peter "Petey Cap" Caporino spent about 40 years in the mob and nearly half that time as an FBI informant, but looks neither part, which might explain why he was successful at both.
Now 69, Caporino has a slight frame, thick white hair and wire-rimmed glasses. At his courtroom debut yesterday as a mob turncoat, he could have passed for a school administrator or maybe even a museum curator, wearing a light gray double-breasted suit and delivering clipped phrases in a slightly nasal North Jersey accent.
What poured forth, however, was Caporino's criminal autobiography, one that began with him running numbers as a young man at a freight company and ended with him running a hidden recorder during hundreds of conversations with Genovese crime family associates.
Caporino's library of tapes led to charges last summer against 16 defendants, prompting prosecutors to proclaim they had delivered "a body blow" to the state's dominant crime family. Fifteen of them, including high-ranking captain Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico, have pleaded guilty.
Michael Crincoli, accused of running loansharking operations from a Jersey City deli, was the lone holdout, the one who forced Caporino, the well-known and liked Hasbrouck Heights resident, from the shadows to the witness stand.
Crincoli's trial, now in its third week before U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, had so far been a parade of diner owners who testified they had borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from Crincoli at extortionate rates.
As the government's crowning witness, Caporino is expected to spend the next two days explaining to the jury his role as a prolific mob informant. Prosecutors hope he can persuade them Crincoli was not, as his attorney contends, a businessman lending friends money, but part of the organized crime family with Caporino.
"When you say 'our family,' what family were you with?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Schwartz asked.
"The Genovese," Caporino replied, matter of factly.
Caporino said he grew up in Hoboken, served three years in the Army and returned to work at a freight company in Fairfield. A co-worker asked if he wanted to help collect bets from workers.
"He said, 'I'll work the platform, you work the drivers,'" Caporino recalled. "I was a numbers runner."
Bettors won when their numbers matched the winning horses that day at Aqueduct or other racetracks. Caporino said he kept 25 percent of his gross collections, and passed the rest up the ladder.
After his father died, Caporino left the warehouse to take over the family business -- an amusement company that placed pinball machines and pool tables in taverns, he said.
But his numbers ring continued, growing got so big that he soon was introduced to James "Jimmy Nap" Napoli, a powerful Genovese captain. Caporino agreed to pay Napoli 25 percent of his proceeds. In return, he got protection; he was under the mob's wing.
"He said, 'If anyone ever approaches you, you just tell them you're with me, mention my name,'" Caporino recalled.
In 1969, the year of storybook seasons for the Jets and Mets, Caporino expanded into sports bookmaking. From then on, the names of his bosses changed but the operations remained largely the same.
After Napoli went to prison, Caporino said, he began paying $2,500 weekly tribute to Louis Anthony "Bobby" Manna, the New Jersey-based Genovese consigliere. He made his payments through intermediaries at reputed mob hangouts, like Casella's restaurant in Hoboken, and succeeded in getting Manna to ultimately lower his payoffs to $850 a week.
When Manna went to jail in 1988, Caporino said, he paid tributes to his wife, Ida Manna. And in 1998, he shifted his tribute to Joseph "Big Joe" Scarbrough, an associate in West Orange, who pleaded guilty in the case earlier this year.
Caporino had a club, the Character Club, along Monroe Street in Hoboken, where friends came to toss back drinks and "have a good time," he said. All the while Caporino had secretly been helping the FBI.
"I was an informant," he testified, his voice dropping a notch.
For how long? Schwartz, the prosecutor, asked.
"More than 15 years," Caporino replied.
Crincoli watched the witness intently at times, sometimes cracking a half-smile. Other times, he kicked his head back as if he was bored. Caporino rarely returned glances toward the defense table, instead focusing on the prosecutor.
In 2002, Caporino, his wife and about 30 others were arrested on state gambling charges. He decided to become a cooperating FBI witness.
"My wife had been to prison before, and I knew she couldn't do it again," Caporino testified. "I knew she wouldn't be able to do the time."
The couple also has a disabled adult daughter.
Caporino wore a pager for his numbers ring, so agents gave him one with a hidden recorder that they could activate remotely. Toward the end of the three-year probe, he said, they let him turn it on and off by himself.
He taped hundreds of conversations, although prosecutors are expected to play only about 30.
Caporino said he had been considering giving up the business, or relocating his operations. At one point, he said, he went to Philadelphia to meet with an associate who had relocated his betting rooms there.
"He told me how great it was down there, how you could operate much freer than you could up here," Caporino said. "So I went down for a look-see."
But he never made the move.
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Re: joe scarborough
Alleged to be the suspected gunman in the Briguglio murder.
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i saw that somewhere and that's what prompted me to ask the dopey jersey guy the question about him-thanks outfit guy
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That Westside JC crew had huge gambling / loansharking books . Westside has several big NJ crews and I wonder how it’s organized today as they have several capable chiefs
Scarborough was big time when that bust happened
Scarborough was big time when that bust happened
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a lot of heavyweights
Silvio , Coppola , De Piro , the JC crew, Bergen/ Lodi crew/ Pete Lodi , Chin son Andrew is a port/ trucking heavyweight in his own right and what’s left of Bruschi jersey shore crew which had an enormous sports book. A lot of capable guys to keep happy
Silvio , Coppola , De Piro , the JC crew, Bergen/ Lodi crew/ Pete Lodi , Chin son Andrew is a port/ trucking heavyweight in his own right and what’s left of Bruschi jersey shore crew which had an enormous sports book. A lot of capable guys to keep happy
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DeVita is 90 and only has a couple older identifiable members in his crew (the Cetrulos). Once he dies, which doesn't appear far off, I'd be comfortable in crossing that crew off completely.
This seems to be a single crew at this point and the only one I can identify.Coppola , De Piro , the JC crew, Bergen/ Lodi crew/ Pete Lodi ,
I'm not sure there even still is a crew or anyone ever succeeded Bruschi.And what’s left of Bruschi jersey shore crew which had an enormous sports book. A lot of capable guys to keep happy
All roads lead to New York.
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MAy I ask where you getting your information from? ThanksWiseguy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 6:15 pmDeVita is 90 and only has a couple older identifiable members in his crew (the Cetrulos). Once he dies, which doesn't appear far off, I'd be comfortable in crossing that crew off completely.
This seems to be a single crew at this point and the only one I can identify.Coppola , De Piro , the JC crew, Bergen/ Lodi crew/ Pete Lodi ,
I'm not sure there even still is a crew or anyone ever succeeded Bruschi.And what’s left of Bruschi jersey shore crew which had an enormous sports book. A lot of capable guys to keep happy
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A: A jury!
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Re: joe scarborough
Simply from known information. If anyone can name who succeeded Joe Gatto or Ninny Bruschi, feel free to do so. Same thing for Silvio DeVita or Larry Dentico when they soon are gone. Or anyone else beyond the handful of members affiliated with these crews. There has been activity in New Jersey from New York-based crews (Palumbo, Tuzzo, etc) but the only New Jersey-based crew that has known leadership, most of the living members, and ongoing activity is the Coppola/DePiro crew.CornerBoy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:31 pmMAy I ask where you getting your information from? ThanksWiseguy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 6:15 pmDeVita is 90 and only has a couple older identifiable members in his crew (the Cetrulos). Once he dies, which doesn't appear far off, I'd be comfortable in crossing that crew off completely.
This seems to be a single crew at this point and the only one I can identify.Coppola , De Piro , the JC crew, Bergen/ Lodi crew/ Pete Lodi ,
I'm not sure there even still is a crew or anyone ever succeeded Bruschi.And what’s left of Bruschi jersey shore crew which had an enormous sports book. A lot of capable guys to keep happy
All roads lead to New York.
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That’s interesting about the part at the end of the article about relocating to Philly. Guess his friend who he visited in Philly is the Genovese book that we knew operated out of Philly and kicked up a piece to Ligambi/Philly Fam.
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I’m not talking captains but soldier/ associate crews that other crews would never F with . Cappola has his own crew of associates and they are feared (they hang in Newark area bar/ restaurants ) , same with JC crew and Lodi crew (they ran and robbed the bada bing and used to have all kinds of bars/ clubs in the area. The Pontes own a well known bar/ club in that area.Wiseguy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 6:15 pmDeVita is 90 and only has a couple older identifiable members in his crew (the Cetrulos). Once he dies, which doesn't appear far off, I'd be comfortable in crossing that crew off completely.
This seems to be a single crew at this point and the only one I can identify.Coppola , De Piro , the JC crew, Bergen/ Lodi crew/ Pete Lodi ,
I'm not sure there even still is a crew or anyone ever succeeded Bruschi.And what’s left of Bruschi jersey shore crew which had an enormous sports book. A lot of capable guys to keep happy
Jersey city has a network of bodegas that actually print their gambling tickets like a casino , monster sports operation and they were always known to be capable
Bruschi crew has an enormous sports book that covers most of the state and must of had muscle to hold down that much gambling real estate.
NJ Westside runs NJ and have a lot of capable guys, including associates. JC / Newark crews have real juice, especially down at the port which is a big reason they are so dominant in LCN