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Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
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Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
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Here´s a summary of all the known murders and attempted murders during Amuso´s and Casso´s reign of terror.
- Anthony "Buddy" Luongo:
A Lucchese captain and appointed acting boss by Tony Corallo. During a meeting in Nov 1986, Amuso and Casso shot Luongo to death and took control of the Lucchese Family.
- Nicholas Guido:
Mistakenly identified as being involved with the attempted hit on Anthony Casso. Guido was shot to death outside his home Dec 25, 1986. Joey Testa was the alleged shooter.
- Carmine Varriale:
Shot to death September 3, 1987. According to turncoat Frank Gioia Jr, Varriale was killed because he had tried to revenge his brother´s murder. Varriale was killed outside a social club in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. In the fusillade of bullets fired, Mafia associate Frank Santoro was also killed. The hit team consisted of Frank Smith Sr, Frank Smilth Jr and Michael Cilone. (Not sure though if Amuso and Casso had anything to do with Varriale´s murder. But Varriale was a Lucchese associate/member at the time of his death.)
- John Otto Heidel:
A 47 year old Lucchese associate and member of the "Bypass gang". A suspected informant. Shot to death in Oct 1987 while fixing a flat tire on his car.
- Eustachio "Leo" Giammona:
Murdered in June 1988 while sitting behind the steering wheel of his car, driving along West 3rd Street in Brooklyn. Giammona was a, so called, "zip" who had recently been made into the Lucchese Family. He was a drug trafficker and related by marriage to John Gambino.
- Dominick Costa (attempted murder):
Another member of the "Bypass gang" and suspected informant. On Oct 12, 1988, he was shot through his head numerous times but survived the attack. When Carmine Sessa, a Colombo member, turned state witness he confessed to Costa´s murder attempt.
- Sorecho "Sammy the Arab" Nalo.
Describing the events leading to Nalo's murder, Chiodo (a former crew leader who had turned state wittness against Amuso) testified that Amuso assigned him to supervise the illegal gambling operation of Spyredon "Spiros" Velentzas. Velentzas told Chiodo that Nalo was encroaching on his illegal gambling activities, a portion of which benefitted the Lucchese Family, and requested the aid of the Lucchese Family in murdering Nalo. According to Chiodo, Amuso was hesitant at first because Velentzas was not formally affiliated with the Family, but after Chiodo told Amuso that Velentzas feared for his life, Amuso told Chiodo that it was "okay" to proceed with Nalo's murder. Chiodo assigned the murder to several Lucchese Family soldiers. They subsequently shot Nalo to death in his travel agency on October 25, 1988.
- Thomas "Red" Gilmore:
On or about February 6, 1989, Thomas "Red" Gilmore was shot to death. D'Arco (another Lucchese captain at the time who turned state witness) testified that in late 1988, Amuso told D'Arco that he suspected Gilmore of being an informant and that he wanted Gilmore killed. D'Arco met with Amuso periodically thereafter and, according to D'Arco, Amuso continued to press for Gilmore's murder. Eventually, the Lucchese soldier assigned to the murder reported to D'Arco that it had been accomplished, and D'Arco in turn conveyed this information to Amuso. According to the government Louis Daidone, a member of D´Arcos crew at the time, was the one who set Gilmore up.
- Michael Pappadio:
On May 13, 1989, Michael Pappadio was bludgeoned and shot to death. D'Arco testified that he personally committed the murder with an accomplice acting on Amuso's orders. Pappadio was a member of the Lucchese crime Family responsible for monitoring the Family's interests in New York City's garment center. Amuso suspected Pappadio of "hiding shops", that is, keeping extortion income for himself and not reporting it to Amuso. According to D'Arco, when Pappadio refused to comply with Amuso's orders to stay out of the garment district and to bring in certain books and records for inspection, Amuso ordered D'Arco to kill Pappadio. D'Arco described the murder, including his efforts to dispose of the body and recounted that Amuso praised him when he reported that the murder had been carried out successfully. As corroboration, Chiodo testified to a conversation with Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Amuso's "consigliere" and second in command. Referring to Pappadio, Casso told Chiodo, "I've got to look that guy up." Chiodo understood this to mean that Casso was planning to have Pappadio killed. During Amuso´s racketeering trial, the government also introduced Amuso's tax returns, which showed income from a garment center company called Supreme Garment Carriers, Inc., to substantiate its claim that Amuso had an interest in the garment center.
- Robert Kubecka and Donald Barstow:
Kubecka was a waste hauler who testified against Lucchese mobsters threats and restraint of trade and spoke about attempts on shaking him down. In Aug 11, 1989 Kubecka and his brother in law Donald Barstow were shot to death at Kubecka´s office where they both worked. Frankie "Pearls" Federico and Rocco Vitulli (two Lucchese members) were the ones who allegedly shot Kubecka and Barstow to death. According to Frank Gioia Jr (another turncoat) the killings had been sought by Salvatore Avellino (a captain in the Lucchese Family at the time) and had been sanctioned by Casso and Amuso.
- John Petrucelli:
On September 13, 1989, John Petrucelli, a soldier in the Lucchese Family, was shot to death. According to D'Arco, Petrucelli fell into disfavor with Amuso because he was hiding Constantine "Gus" Farace, an associate of the Bonanno crime family who was suspected of killing a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Under increasing pressure from federal agents, Amuso instructed D'Arco to tell Petrucelli that "he should kill Gus Farace, and right away, or shoot himself." Shortly thereafter, Casso told D'Arco that Amuso was "fuming" about the Petrucelli situation, and that D'Arco should tell Michael Salerno, another Lucchese Family captain, to kill Petrucelli. Anthony Magana and Joseph Cosentino were in 1991 found guilty of this murder.
- John "Sonny" Morrissey:
Morrissey was murdered on September 17, 1989. Chiodo testified that Amuso and Casso suspected Morrissey of cooperating in the Windows case, and that they ordered Chiodo to kill Morrissey and bury his body where it would not be found. Chiodo and several Lucchese Family members shot Morrissey to death and then buried his body near a stone wall. D'Arco testified that he met with Amuso and Casso in the summer of 1990 and they discussed the Windows case. At one point Casso said to Amuso, "We got rid of Sonny." Though he did not know at that point who Sonny was, D'Arco understood this to mean that Amuso and Casso had ordered Sonny's murder. In 1991, after an attempt on Chiodo's life failed and he began cooperating with the government, Chiodo led government agents to Morrissey's body.
- Joseph LaMorte (attempted murder):
Amuso wanted to kill the Accetturos (father and son) and Joseph Lamorte (member of the Accetturo´s NJ faction due to disloyalty. But the Accetturos went into hiding and could not be found. At one point Casso, in Amuso's presence, ordered Chiodo to kidnap LaMorte and torture him until he revealed the Accetturos' whereabouts. The kidnapping plan failed, but Chiodo and several Lucchese soldiers later shot LaMorte, again acting on Casso's orders. LaMorte survived the attack. The Accetturos were never found. These NJ crew members: Thomas Ricciardi, Daniel Ricciardi, Joseph Ricciardi, Daniel Miano and Nicholas "Nicky Skins" Stefanelli were also on Amuso´s death list.
- Joseph Martinelli (attempted murder):
Martinelli was the owner of a large concrete company who made substantial payoffs to the Lucchese Family. At one point when Martinelli fell behind, Amuso and Casso told Chiodo to make sure Martinelli resumed his payments. According to Chiodo, Martinelli told him that business was slow and that he was unable to make the payments. Several months later, after Martinelli failed to heed Chiodo's requests, Chiodo met with Amuso and Casso and asked them to be patient. Casso told Chiodo, "What's the matter with you? Don't you know we want this guy clipped?" When Chiodo responded that he was not aware of that plan, Casso said, "Maybe his partner will get the message after we clip him." Thereafter, Martinelli accompanied Chiodo on a trip to Staten Island, purportedly to attend a secret meeting with Amuso who was by this time a fugitive from the Windows case. Chiodo testified that he pulled over to the side of the road, "pulled out a pistol . . . leaned into the passenger door and . . . squeezed the trigger four or five times." The gun did not fire because, as Chiodo later discovered, the magazine was not properly installed. Chiodo explained the incident to Martinelli as a joke using a realistic toy gun. Martinelli accepted the explanation.
D'Arco confirmed that Amuso and Casso had assigned Chiodo to murder Martinelli. According to D'Arco, Amuso and Casso asked D'Arco to assist Chiodo in forcing Martinelli to resume his payments. He recounted several conversations in which Casso expressed his displeasure at Chiodo's inability to carry out the hit, and castigated Chiodo for his failure. Eventually, Martinelli met with D'Arco and agreed to pay Amuso and Casso $60,000 and to use companies affiliated with the Lucchese crime Family as his concrete and steel suppliers. No further attempts were made on Martinelli's life. However, Amuso never lifted the murder contract.
- Anthony DiLapi:
A nephew of the former Lucchese underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro who fled New York after finding out that Amuso and Casso susoected him of being an informant. DiLapi was found in LA on Feb 4, 1990, shot to death. It is said that Al D´Arco´s son, Joseph, made his bones by this killing. Amuso and Casso were not charged with this murder, probably because Al D´Arco wanted to protect his son.
- James Bishop:
Was an official in the Painters Union, Local 37, who was suspected of cooperating in an investigation then being conducted by the New York County District Attorney's Office into corruption in the union. Bishop was murdered on May 17, 1990 but I´m not sure if Amuso and Casso were behind this murder.
- Michael Salerno:
Salerno was a member of the Bronx faction of the Lucchese Family. According to D'Arco, Amuso viewed Salerno as a rival because he thought Salerno was disappointed when he was not selected to be boss of the Lucchese organization or to participate in its administration. In May 1990, a short time before Amuso and Casso fled to avoid arrest on the original Windows indictment, Casso told D'Arco that Salerno was a "rat" and that Amuso wanted him killed. D'Arco instructed a soldier under Salerno's control to kill Salerno. Salerno was stabbed and shot to death in early June 1990. D'Arco told the jury that at a meeting with Amuso and Casso (who were then in hiding), Amuso congratulated and praised D'Arco for his role in the Salerno murder. Chiodo also testified that Amuso and Casso did not like or trust Salerno. According to Chiodo, Casso asked Chiodo to go to the Bronx and check up on Salerno because Salerno was conducting Lucchese Family business in a way that offended Amuso and Casso. Shortly before Salerno's murder, Amuso and Casso told Chiodo that he might have to "go up and take over the Bronx crew for Mike Salerno."
- Julio "Red" Calder:
Calder was murdered in Dom Carbucci´s social club on June 2, 1990. According to informants, one of the shooters were Joseph "JoJo" Truncale. Calder had made the fatal mistake of breaking and entering Bobby Amuso´s house.
- Bruno Facciolo:
Later that summer on August 24, 1990, another member of the Lucchese Family, Bruno Facciolo, was stabbed and shot to death. D'Arco testified that after Amuso and Casso fled, they told him that Facciolo was a "rat" who had to be killed. D'Arco learned that another Lucchese captain was also assigned to murder Facciolo, and eventually that the murder had been carried out. Chiodo told the jury that when he asked D'Arco why Facciolo was murdered, D'Arco told him "they told me he went bad." By "they," Chiodo understood D'Arco to be referring to Amuso and Casso. Louis Daidone was later found guilty of Facciolo´s murder.
- Edward Lino:
Lino was a captain with the Gambino Family, found murdered on Nov 6, 1990 while sitting in his car on a road leading onto the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. He was a suspected member of the hit team that killed Paul Castellano and Tommy Bilotti which may be why Lino was killed. In 2006, Louis Eppolito and Steven Caracappa, two police detectives nicknamed "The Mafia Cops" by the press because of handling murder assignments for Casso, were found guilty of Lino´s murder and sentenced to life in prison. (They were also found guilty in the Guido, DiLapi, Boriello and Bishop murders described on this list.)
- Al Visconti and Larry Taylor:
The following year, Lucchese Family associates Al Visconti and Larry Taylor were murdered in February and March 1991, respectively. According to D'Arco, Visconti and Taylor, in concert with Facciolo, were suspected of informing authorities in California that D'Arco's son had murdered Anthony DiLapi, and of plotting to kill several Lucchese Family members including D'Arco and his son. D'Arco also explained that Amuso thought Visconti was a disgrace to the Lucchese Family because he had a reputation of engaging in homosexual acts in prison. Amuso and Casso ordered D'Arco to arrange Visconti's and Taylor's murder, which he did. D'Arco said that when Amuso learned of Visconti's killing, he sent word indirectly to D'Arco that he was pleased that the murder was carried out so quickly.
- "Fat" Pete Chiodo (murder attempt):
According to Chiodo, by late 1989 his relationship with Amuso and Casso deteriorated because they were dissatisfied with his progress on several murder contracts. In addition, Amuso and Casso were upset at Chiodo's decision to plead guilty to the Windows and certain unrelated charges without first getting their permission. D'Arco testified that Amuso and Casso came to suspect Chiodo of cooperating with the government, and ordered D'Arco to kill Chiodo. D'Arco, in turn, assigned the murder to several Lucchese Family soldiers and on May 8, 1991 two shooters ambushed Chiodo at a gas station in Staten Island where he was working on a car. Amazingly, Chiodo survived the attack and became a government witness soon thereafter.
- Bobby Boriello:
Was a member and an acting captain with the Gambino Family. On May 13, 1991 Boriello was murdered. Possibly on Amuso´s and Casso´s orders.
- Anthony Fava:
Anthony Fava was the architect who designed Anthony Casso´s house located in the upper middle class area of Mill Basin in Brooklyn. Fava did work on the 19th Hole, the Bay Ridge bar/hangout of Casso and Amuso, and La Donna Rosa, an eatery on Cleveland Place owned by D'Arco's son, Joseph. Al D'Arco told the FBI that Casso ordered Fava's execution during a phone conversation in 1991. D'Arco said Casso "needed Fava killed" because the architect knew about "illegal deals relative to Casso's home." On Sept. 20, 1991 Fava's body was found in a stolen car in Bensonhurst. He had been stabbed, shot and stripped to his boxer shorts, with his body wrapped in a plastic sheet.
- Patricia Capozzalo (sister of "Fat" Pete Chiodo), (murder attempt):
After been shot 12 times but survived, Chiodo turned state witness against his former Mafia associates. Richard Pagliarulo, a member of Chiodo´s crew had assigned the shooters and replaced Chiodo as crew leader after the murder attempt. Subsequently, Pagliarulo and an associate warned Chiodo through his attorney that Chiodo's wife would be killed if he cooperated with the government's investigation. They also advised Chiodo's father to warn Chiodo that his whole family would be assassinated if he cooperated. Chiodo nevertheless decided to cooperate with the government. While most of his family was relocated under the Federal Witness Protection Program, his sister Patricia Capozzalo declined to join them.
On March 10, 1992, as Patricia Capozzalo returned home from driving her children to school, Michael Spinelli blocked her car with his van while Dino Basciano walked to the driver's side of Capozzalo's car and fired two shots through the window. One bullet lodged in her neck and another ricocheted off her back. At St. Vincent's Medical Center at Richmond, the bullet in her neck was dislodged and she received three sutures for a minor wound behind her ear. She survived the attack.
- Anthony Cuozzo:
After the conviction of Anthony Calagna Sr, President of Teamsters Local 295 of extortion and conspiracy to extortion, Anthony Cuozzo (a Lucchese member) became Vice President. Cuozzo was Chairman of the Anthony Calagna Defense Fund Committee. He was murdered in January of 1992. In September 1993, Michael Perna pleaded guilty to multiple murder conspiracies, including this one.
- Neil Migliore (murder attempt):
Migliore was shot and critically wounded on April 4, 1992 by a gunman who fired a shotgun through the window of a crowded Long Island restaurant where the victim was celebrating a 4-year-old girl's birthday party. Migliore was hit in the head and in his chest. Despite his wounds, Migliore survived. Paolo LoDuca, a so called "zip" and a Lucchese mobster who was extradited to Italy in 1997 to serve a prison term for cocaine smuggling, was a suspect in the Migliore hit.
- Pasquale "Patty" Testa:
The brother of Joey Testa and a made guy with the Luccheses. Murdered in 1992 for unknown reasons.
- Anthony "Buddy" Luongo:
A Lucchese captain and appointed acting boss by Tony Corallo. During a meeting in Nov 1986, Amuso and Casso shot Luongo to death and took control of the Lucchese Family.
- Nicholas Guido:
Mistakenly identified as being involved with the attempted hit on Anthony Casso. Guido was shot to death outside his home Dec 25, 1986. Joey Testa was the alleged shooter.
- Carmine Varriale:
Shot to death September 3, 1987. According to turncoat Frank Gioia Jr, Varriale was killed because he had tried to revenge his brother´s murder. Varriale was killed outside a social club in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. In the fusillade of bullets fired, Mafia associate Frank Santoro was also killed. The hit team consisted of Frank Smith Sr, Frank Smilth Jr and Michael Cilone. (Not sure though if Amuso and Casso had anything to do with Varriale´s murder. But Varriale was a Lucchese associate/member at the time of his death.)
- John Otto Heidel:
A 47 year old Lucchese associate and member of the "Bypass gang". A suspected informant. Shot to death in Oct 1987 while fixing a flat tire on his car.
- Eustachio "Leo" Giammona:
Murdered in June 1988 while sitting behind the steering wheel of his car, driving along West 3rd Street in Brooklyn. Giammona was a, so called, "zip" who had recently been made into the Lucchese Family. He was a drug trafficker and related by marriage to John Gambino.
- Dominick Costa (attempted murder):
Another member of the "Bypass gang" and suspected informant. On Oct 12, 1988, he was shot through his head numerous times but survived the attack. When Carmine Sessa, a Colombo member, turned state witness he confessed to Costa´s murder attempt.
- Sorecho "Sammy the Arab" Nalo.
Describing the events leading to Nalo's murder, Chiodo (a former crew leader who had turned state wittness against Amuso) testified that Amuso assigned him to supervise the illegal gambling operation of Spyredon "Spiros" Velentzas. Velentzas told Chiodo that Nalo was encroaching on his illegal gambling activities, a portion of which benefitted the Lucchese Family, and requested the aid of the Lucchese Family in murdering Nalo. According to Chiodo, Amuso was hesitant at first because Velentzas was not formally affiliated with the Family, but after Chiodo told Amuso that Velentzas feared for his life, Amuso told Chiodo that it was "okay" to proceed with Nalo's murder. Chiodo assigned the murder to several Lucchese Family soldiers. They subsequently shot Nalo to death in his travel agency on October 25, 1988.
- Thomas "Red" Gilmore:
On or about February 6, 1989, Thomas "Red" Gilmore was shot to death. D'Arco (another Lucchese captain at the time who turned state witness) testified that in late 1988, Amuso told D'Arco that he suspected Gilmore of being an informant and that he wanted Gilmore killed. D'Arco met with Amuso periodically thereafter and, according to D'Arco, Amuso continued to press for Gilmore's murder. Eventually, the Lucchese soldier assigned to the murder reported to D'Arco that it had been accomplished, and D'Arco in turn conveyed this information to Amuso. According to the government Louis Daidone, a member of D´Arcos crew at the time, was the one who set Gilmore up.
- Michael Pappadio:
On May 13, 1989, Michael Pappadio was bludgeoned and shot to death. D'Arco testified that he personally committed the murder with an accomplice acting on Amuso's orders. Pappadio was a member of the Lucchese crime Family responsible for monitoring the Family's interests in New York City's garment center. Amuso suspected Pappadio of "hiding shops", that is, keeping extortion income for himself and not reporting it to Amuso. According to D'Arco, when Pappadio refused to comply with Amuso's orders to stay out of the garment district and to bring in certain books and records for inspection, Amuso ordered D'Arco to kill Pappadio. D'Arco described the murder, including his efforts to dispose of the body and recounted that Amuso praised him when he reported that the murder had been carried out successfully. As corroboration, Chiodo testified to a conversation with Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Amuso's "consigliere" and second in command. Referring to Pappadio, Casso told Chiodo, "I've got to look that guy up." Chiodo understood this to mean that Casso was planning to have Pappadio killed. During Amuso´s racketeering trial, the government also introduced Amuso's tax returns, which showed income from a garment center company called Supreme Garment Carriers, Inc., to substantiate its claim that Amuso had an interest in the garment center.
- Robert Kubecka and Donald Barstow:
Kubecka was a waste hauler who testified against Lucchese mobsters threats and restraint of trade and spoke about attempts on shaking him down. In Aug 11, 1989 Kubecka and his brother in law Donald Barstow were shot to death at Kubecka´s office where they both worked. Frankie "Pearls" Federico and Rocco Vitulli (two Lucchese members) were the ones who allegedly shot Kubecka and Barstow to death. According to Frank Gioia Jr (another turncoat) the killings had been sought by Salvatore Avellino (a captain in the Lucchese Family at the time) and had been sanctioned by Casso and Amuso.
- John Petrucelli:
On September 13, 1989, John Petrucelli, a soldier in the Lucchese Family, was shot to death. According to D'Arco, Petrucelli fell into disfavor with Amuso because he was hiding Constantine "Gus" Farace, an associate of the Bonanno crime family who was suspected of killing a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Under increasing pressure from federal agents, Amuso instructed D'Arco to tell Petrucelli that "he should kill Gus Farace, and right away, or shoot himself." Shortly thereafter, Casso told D'Arco that Amuso was "fuming" about the Petrucelli situation, and that D'Arco should tell Michael Salerno, another Lucchese Family captain, to kill Petrucelli. Anthony Magana and Joseph Cosentino were in 1991 found guilty of this murder.
- John "Sonny" Morrissey:
Morrissey was murdered on September 17, 1989. Chiodo testified that Amuso and Casso suspected Morrissey of cooperating in the Windows case, and that they ordered Chiodo to kill Morrissey and bury his body where it would not be found. Chiodo and several Lucchese Family members shot Morrissey to death and then buried his body near a stone wall. D'Arco testified that he met with Amuso and Casso in the summer of 1990 and they discussed the Windows case. At one point Casso said to Amuso, "We got rid of Sonny." Though he did not know at that point who Sonny was, D'Arco understood this to mean that Amuso and Casso had ordered Sonny's murder. In 1991, after an attempt on Chiodo's life failed and he began cooperating with the government, Chiodo led government agents to Morrissey's body.
- Joseph LaMorte (attempted murder):
Amuso wanted to kill the Accetturos (father and son) and Joseph Lamorte (member of the Accetturo´s NJ faction due to disloyalty. But the Accetturos went into hiding and could not be found. At one point Casso, in Amuso's presence, ordered Chiodo to kidnap LaMorte and torture him until he revealed the Accetturos' whereabouts. The kidnapping plan failed, but Chiodo and several Lucchese soldiers later shot LaMorte, again acting on Casso's orders. LaMorte survived the attack. The Accetturos were never found. These NJ crew members: Thomas Ricciardi, Daniel Ricciardi, Joseph Ricciardi, Daniel Miano and Nicholas "Nicky Skins" Stefanelli were also on Amuso´s death list.
- Joseph Martinelli (attempted murder):
Martinelli was the owner of a large concrete company who made substantial payoffs to the Lucchese Family. At one point when Martinelli fell behind, Amuso and Casso told Chiodo to make sure Martinelli resumed his payments. According to Chiodo, Martinelli told him that business was slow and that he was unable to make the payments. Several months later, after Martinelli failed to heed Chiodo's requests, Chiodo met with Amuso and Casso and asked them to be patient. Casso told Chiodo, "What's the matter with you? Don't you know we want this guy clipped?" When Chiodo responded that he was not aware of that plan, Casso said, "Maybe his partner will get the message after we clip him." Thereafter, Martinelli accompanied Chiodo on a trip to Staten Island, purportedly to attend a secret meeting with Amuso who was by this time a fugitive from the Windows case. Chiodo testified that he pulled over to the side of the road, "pulled out a pistol . . . leaned into the passenger door and . . . squeezed the trigger four or five times." The gun did not fire because, as Chiodo later discovered, the magazine was not properly installed. Chiodo explained the incident to Martinelli as a joke using a realistic toy gun. Martinelli accepted the explanation.
D'Arco confirmed that Amuso and Casso had assigned Chiodo to murder Martinelli. According to D'Arco, Amuso and Casso asked D'Arco to assist Chiodo in forcing Martinelli to resume his payments. He recounted several conversations in which Casso expressed his displeasure at Chiodo's inability to carry out the hit, and castigated Chiodo for his failure. Eventually, Martinelli met with D'Arco and agreed to pay Amuso and Casso $60,000 and to use companies affiliated with the Lucchese crime Family as his concrete and steel suppliers. No further attempts were made on Martinelli's life. However, Amuso never lifted the murder contract.
- Anthony DiLapi:
A nephew of the former Lucchese underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro who fled New York after finding out that Amuso and Casso susoected him of being an informant. DiLapi was found in LA on Feb 4, 1990, shot to death. It is said that Al D´Arco´s son, Joseph, made his bones by this killing. Amuso and Casso were not charged with this murder, probably because Al D´Arco wanted to protect his son.
- James Bishop:
Was an official in the Painters Union, Local 37, who was suspected of cooperating in an investigation then being conducted by the New York County District Attorney's Office into corruption in the union. Bishop was murdered on May 17, 1990 but I´m not sure if Amuso and Casso were behind this murder.
- Michael Salerno:
Salerno was a member of the Bronx faction of the Lucchese Family. According to D'Arco, Amuso viewed Salerno as a rival because he thought Salerno was disappointed when he was not selected to be boss of the Lucchese organization or to participate in its administration. In May 1990, a short time before Amuso and Casso fled to avoid arrest on the original Windows indictment, Casso told D'Arco that Salerno was a "rat" and that Amuso wanted him killed. D'Arco instructed a soldier under Salerno's control to kill Salerno. Salerno was stabbed and shot to death in early June 1990. D'Arco told the jury that at a meeting with Amuso and Casso (who were then in hiding), Amuso congratulated and praised D'Arco for his role in the Salerno murder. Chiodo also testified that Amuso and Casso did not like or trust Salerno. According to Chiodo, Casso asked Chiodo to go to the Bronx and check up on Salerno because Salerno was conducting Lucchese Family business in a way that offended Amuso and Casso. Shortly before Salerno's murder, Amuso and Casso told Chiodo that he might have to "go up and take over the Bronx crew for Mike Salerno."
- Julio "Red" Calder:
Calder was murdered in Dom Carbucci´s social club on June 2, 1990. According to informants, one of the shooters were Joseph "JoJo" Truncale. Calder had made the fatal mistake of breaking and entering Bobby Amuso´s house.
- Bruno Facciolo:
Later that summer on August 24, 1990, another member of the Lucchese Family, Bruno Facciolo, was stabbed and shot to death. D'Arco testified that after Amuso and Casso fled, they told him that Facciolo was a "rat" who had to be killed. D'Arco learned that another Lucchese captain was also assigned to murder Facciolo, and eventually that the murder had been carried out. Chiodo told the jury that when he asked D'Arco why Facciolo was murdered, D'Arco told him "they told me he went bad." By "they," Chiodo understood D'Arco to be referring to Amuso and Casso. Louis Daidone was later found guilty of Facciolo´s murder.
- Edward Lino:
Lino was a captain with the Gambino Family, found murdered on Nov 6, 1990 while sitting in his car on a road leading onto the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. He was a suspected member of the hit team that killed Paul Castellano and Tommy Bilotti which may be why Lino was killed. In 2006, Louis Eppolito and Steven Caracappa, two police detectives nicknamed "The Mafia Cops" by the press because of handling murder assignments for Casso, were found guilty of Lino´s murder and sentenced to life in prison. (They were also found guilty in the Guido, DiLapi, Boriello and Bishop murders described on this list.)
- Al Visconti and Larry Taylor:
The following year, Lucchese Family associates Al Visconti and Larry Taylor were murdered in February and March 1991, respectively. According to D'Arco, Visconti and Taylor, in concert with Facciolo, were suspected of informing authorities in California that D'Arco's son had murdered Anthony DiLapi, and of plotting to kill several Lucchese Family members including D'Arco and his son. D'Arco also explained that Amuso thought Visconti was a disgrace to the Lucchese Family because he had a reputation of engaging in homosexual acts in prison. Amuso and Casso ordered D'Arco to arrange Visconti's and Taylor's murder, which he did. D'Arco said that when Amuso learned of Visconti's killing, he sent word indirectly to D'Arco that he was pleased that the murder was carried out so quickly.
- "Fat" Pete Chiodo (murder attempt):
According to Chiodo, by late 1989 his relationship with Amuso and Casso deteriorated because they were dissatisfied with his progress on several murder contracts. In addition, Amuso and Casso were upset at Chiodo's decision to plead guilty to the Windows and certain unrelated charges without first getting their permission. D'Arco testified that Amuso and Casso came to suspect Chiodo of cooperating with the government, and ordered D'Arco to kill Chiodo. D'Arco, in turn, assigned the murder to several Lucchese Family soldiers and on May 8, 1991 two shooters ambushed Chiodo at a gas station in Staten Island where he was working on a car. Amazingly, Chiodo survived the attack and became a government witness soon thereafter.
- Bobby Boriello:
Was a member and an acting captain with the Gambino Family. On May 13, 1991 Boriello was murdered. Possibly on Amuso´s and Casso´s orders.
- Anthony Fava:
Anthony Fava was the architect who designed Anthony Casso´s house located in the upper middle class area of Mill Basin in Brooklyn. Fava did work on the 19th Hole, the Bay Ridge bar/hangout of Casso and Amuso, and La Donna Rosa, an eatery on Cleveland Place owned by D'Arco's son, Joseph. Al D'Arco told the FBI that Casso ordered Fava's execution during a phone conversation in 1991. D'Arco said Casso "needed Fava killed" because the architect knew about "illegal deals relative to Casso's home." On Sept. 20, 1991 Fava's body was found in a stolen car in Bensonhurst. He had been stabbed, shot and stripped to his boxer shorts, with his body wrapped in a plastic sheet.
- Patricia Capozzalo (sister of "Fat" Pete Chiodo), (murder attempt):
After been shot 12 times but survived, Chiodo turned state witness against his former Mafia associates. Richard Pagliarulo, a member of Chiodo´s crew had assigned the shooters and replaced Chiodo as crew leader after the murder attempt. Subsequently, Pagliarulo and an associate warned Chiodo through his attorney that Chiodo's wife would be killed if he cooperated with the government's investigation. They also advised Chiodo's father to warn Chiodo that his whole family would be assassinated if he cooperated. Chiodo nevertheless decided to cooperate with the government. While most of his family was relocated under the Federal Witness Protection Program, his sister Patricia Capozzalo declined to join them.
On March 10, 1992, as Patricia Capozzalo returned home from driving her children to school, Michael Spinelli blocked her car with his van while Dino Basciano walked to the driver's side of Capozzalo's car and fired two shots through the window. One bullet lodged in her neck and another ricocheted off her back. At St. Vincent's Medical Center at Richmond, the bullet in her neck was dislodged and she received three sutures for a minor wound behind her ear. She survived the attack.
- Anthony Cuozzo:
After the conviction of Anthony Calagna Sr, President of Teamsters Local 295 of extortion and conspiracy to extortion, Anthony Cuozzo (a Lucchese member) became Vice President. Cuozzo was Chairman of the Anthony Calagna Defense Fund Committee. He was murdered in January of 1992. In September 1993, Michael Perna pleaded guilty to multiple murder conspiracies, including this one.
- Neil Migliore (murder attempt):
Migliore was shot and critically wounded on April 4, 1992 by a gunman who fired a shotgun through the window of a crowded Long Island restaurant where the victim was celebrating a 4-year-old girl's birthday party. Migliore was hit in the head and in his chest. Despite his wounds, Migliore survived. Paolo LoDuca, a so called "zip" and a Lucchese mobster who was extradited to Italy in 1997 to serve a prison term for cocaine smuggling, was a suspect in the Migliore hit.
- Pasquale "Patty" Testa:
The brother of Joey Testa and a made guy with the Luccheses. Murdered in 1992 for unknown reasons.
There you have it, never printed before.
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Ivan
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Thanks. I didn't know about half of those.
Cuz da bullets don't have names.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
More than 20 hits in 6 years. That's quite a number even for the old days..
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Vladimir reznikov is missing from the list , he was murdered by the Gemini twins on the order of Casso
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
A better question wouldve been who didnt Casso and Amuso try and whack.
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
Oh and Jersey.
Lets not forget they wanted to whack the whole fuckin Jersey crew.
Lets not forget they wanted to whack the whole fuckin Jersey crew.
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
Didn't Casso order this just by saying "Whack Jersey"?SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:05 am Oh and Jersey.
Lets not forget they wanted to whack the whole fuckin Jersey crew.
Cuz da bullets don't have names.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
I wasn't off the porch yet when the whole "whack jersey" thing went down and from what I have heard from objective people, mike and marty, tommy r, mike p, etc all were ghost when this was happening. That's crazy to me and shows the power and fear Vic and Gas instilled into people because to come to Newark back then whether Down Neck or Bloomfield ave and try to take these guys out seems pretty unlikely and hard to do. Then again, nothing ever happened so... Yo Rocco maybe you have some good insight on this because I know you are more familiar with this time.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
Amuso thought Visconti was a disgrace to the Lucchese Family because he had a reputation of engaging in homosexual acts in prison.
I thought you got a pass for that because there are no women in there? Some guy's are there 5, 10 years.
Great list and breakdown by the way.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
Whoever wrote that Sopranos line definitely screwed up.Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2017 7:19 amAmuso thought Visconti was a disgrace to the Lucchese Family because he had a reputation of engaging in homosexual acts in prison.
I thought you got a pass for that because there are no women in there? Some guy's are there 5, 10 years.
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Jimmy Heidel
He was kidnapt by the 2 cops... delivered to Casso, tortured and killed.
He was kidnapt by the 2 cops... delivered to Casso, tortured and killed.
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Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
I was just about to add this one, thanks.
Didn't Casso torture the guy by shooting in his extremeties and gradually moving toward the torso?
Cuz da bullets don't have names.
Re: Hits under Amuso and Gaspipe
In the Casso interview he says: i dint torture the kid, nothing like that....but i saw in his biograhpy video a fbi agent (forget his name) who says that he did what you describe
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Leonardo. Not Eustachio.HairyKnuckles wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:41 am - Eustachio "Leo" Giammona:
Murdered in June 1988 while sitting behind the steering wheel of his car, driving along West 3rd Street in Brooklyn. Giammona was a, so called, "zip" who had recently been made into the Lucchese Family. He was a drug trafficker and related by marriage to John Gambino.
He was murdered on the order of Toto Riina. When Rosario Naimo asked to kill him Gaspipe was really happy. They wanted to kill him before but they were afraid of reprisals.