Larry Gallo was a stool pigeon

[Ivan]

I did a quick search and found a list of informants made by maxiestern in 2018 that included Larry Gallo:

viewtopic.php?p=123814&hilit=larry+gall ... at#p123814

There might be earlier results, but others have already noted that Gallo was mentioned in a couple books going back to 2008. FYI, when I searched I put "Larry Gallo" in quotes then used the search within results function.

Oh wow I didn't even know that quotation marks work as a Boolean operator in the search here. Thanks, that might end up being a game changer when searching for stuff on here.

[davidf1989]

New video from OC Shortz furnishing FBI docs showing conclusively that Larry Gallo was an FBI informant.


Was this known??

This is really interesting and would Crazy Joe Gallo have known that his older brother was an informant?

[HairyKnuckles]

New video from OC Shortz furnishing FBI docs showing conclusively that Larry Gallo was an FBI informant.


Was this known??

Yes this was known.

[B.]

New video from OC Shortz furnishing FBI docs showing conclusively that Larry Gallo was an FBI informant.


Was this known??

This is really interesting and would Crazy Joe Gallo have known that his older brother was an informant?

I have files from the early 1970s where an informant extremely close to Joey Gallo was providing info. He was able to quote Gallo verbatim on a bunch of topics and though there is no smoking gun like with Larry I've suspected it was Joey Gallo himself. The informant said that Gallo had completely renounced his membership in the mafia and did not consider himself a member. We know that Gallo had also been very open with Jimmy Breslin the previous decade where he complained about Profaci and explained why the war started.

[JeremyTheJew]

I just watched CRAZY JOE on Tubi where RIP TORN Joey.

Anyways - Larry’s character actually talks to the cops then drives off a cliff ….. interesting they got one of the scenarios right…

Real good movie 70% accurate besides that

[rlizzy121]

That’s news.

[CornerBoy]

half these guys give up info in some shape or form. I'm excluding the West Side and Sicilian branch of Gambino.

[davidf1989]

I'm pretty sure David Critchley first referenced Gallo's cooperation in his book or on Real Deal years ago.

Would New York's underworld have changed much if Carmine Persico had been an informant? As mentioned in this article https://www.cosanostranews.com/2021/08/ ... cords.html also did the Gallos know Greg Scarpa?

[Uforeality]

Being an informant is now a career of its own. The Feds let these guys run non-violent rackets in exchange for real-time info on organized crime activities. Its a side job for a lot of mobsters. I think the number of informants is a lot more than we know or suspect.

[Teflon Dom]

New video from OC Shortz furnishing FBI docs showing conclusively that Larry Gallo was an FBI informant.


Was this known??

Yes this was known.

[Louis_Brasi]

I think as times goes on, we’ll learn that quite a large number of highly renowned made guys were providing information to feds strategically, a la Scarpa, Bulger.

There was that rumour last year about Persico. Also, something about arilottas story sounds similar. It seemed multiple families knew that John Bologna was a rat yet genovese leaders kept him around. Possibly the same reason- they wanted to have someone strategically providing info that was beneficial to them.

[davidf1989]

I think as times goes on, we’ll learn that quite a large number of highly renowned made guys were providing information to feds strategically, a la Scarpa, Bulger.

There was that rumour last year about Persico. Also, something about arilottas story sounds similar. It seemed multiple families knew that John Bologna was a rat yet genovese leaders kept him around. Possibly the same reason- they wanted to have someone strategically providing info that was beneficial to them.

Thanks for an interesting comment that I agree with. so would Crazy Joe Gallo have known about his brother Larry being an informant?

[CornerBoy]

larry was a rat and joe was a fag. very nice

[Pmac2]

larry gallo was made a capo by joe colombo to appease there faction. what year did he die 1970?