This robbery was especially crucial since it was pulled off to fund the upcoming wedding between Big Dino and his girl Andrea. According to the December 2010 LIUNA complaint, the foreman had been "criticizing the Scopos." He has his daughter post his TRULINGS musings in a blog called. When feds arrested him and eleven associates on December 12, 2006, they seized the silencer from Souza's car. When he wasn't being schooled on crime by Gioeli and Calabro, The Rock could be found at a candy store called "The Corner" on 75th St. and 20th Ave. Gioeli, at least a decade older than his underlings, became almost like a surrogate father for the group and schooled the delinquent teens on how to stick up stores, burglarize banks, and pull off home invasions. Basile didn't know Tommy Shots personally, but it was a good start for the feds to begin their investigation of the slippery Colombo boss. After the owners of a Long Island market closed up for the night, Tommy Shots, Big Dino and Greaves jumped the owners on the street and made off with bags of cash. A Brazilian-born ex-nun, Zuraw met an accountant and moved to America to pursue her relationship with him. They were at a Queens restaurant when Tommy received word that Johnny was hanging around Club Mirage in Farmingdale, a location which kicked up thousands of dollars in tribute money to the Colombo clan. They were at a Queens restaurant when Tommy received word that Johnny was hanging around Club Mirage in Farmingdale, a location which kicked up thousands of dollars in tribute . Even if the small businessman refused, the Mafia always managed to push them into shops one way or another. Gioeli certainly has a way with words. There was John Baudanza, a violent Mill Basin gangster whose uncle was an enterprising bigwig Colombo mobster. The Bureau of Prisons says that TRULINGS is intended to provide inmates with some limited computer access, to include the capability to send and receive electronic messages without having access to the Internet, but Gioeli found a simple way to surmount that restriction. Gioeli had in fact touched index fingers to keyboard back before he was arrested, when he said it came time to prepare one of the traditional induction lists by which a crime family must secure approval from all the other crime families of its candidates for membership in the Mafia. As far as Colombos go, Gioeli had a good run and didn't see the inside of a jail cell until 21 years after he was made, and five years into his reign as boss. If by some miracle, they were able to beat any indictments, they would then cash in their chips and retire from "the life. He would frequently stop when he drove and take bizarre routes to seemingly mundane locations. "Of course I will." Dino and Joey set out east, but Johnny was already gone. Through it all, Tommy artfully avoided FBI scrutiny, never dropping the ball when it came to counter-surveillance. Tommy also shook down an unnamed Colombo associate's lucrative bookmaking operation. What a change socially and politically.. Twenty years later, when he moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Maragni became the "liaison" to New York for Floridian associates. He has his daughter post his TRULINGS musings in a blog called Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioelis Voice. He's totally low-rent.". While associates close to the street boss were ducking from subpoenas and questioning by federal agents, the chubby 54-year-old maintained a prominent public profile in Brooklyn and Long Island. [2], In 1997, Gioeli allegedly participated in the murder of Ralph Dols, a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer. Retrieved 10 October 2011. The other inductee in the Greenpoint apartment, however, was decidedly less successful than Uvino & Catapano. [11][12][13], In July 2010, Gioeli was indicted in the 1997 Dols murder. I want you to behave," according to attendee Reynold 'Ren' Maragni. If anybody needs a job, just let me know and I'll take care of it through my son.". With Joey Competiello as the getaway driver, they made off with $20,000, which they split with Tommy. Despite the 100-year sentence imposed on the local's president Ralph Scopo Sr. in 1986, wiseguys retained control of the union by merely placing Scopo's son Ralph Jr., a soldier, in his place. Thomas Salvatore "Tommy Shots" Gioeli (born 1952), is a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family. . But this was a mere formality, and Caves was still aligned mainly to Tommy Machines and Big Dino. This included the legendary Califano family, a tight-knit kindred of bookies and card game operators that have been associated with the Colombo and Lucchese borgatas since the 1990s. For Tommy, the FBI's claim in question was that he picked up Wild Bill on 92nd Street and then, along with former Cutolo henchman Vincent' Chickie' DeMartino, murdered the underboss and dumped his body off a boat in a Long Island marina. Scarpa died of AIDS in 1994, facing multiple murder charges stemming from the 1991-93 Colombo war. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. A big one in the Local was the "coffee boy" scam, in which the mobsters took at least $250 from every union site in the city by charging the work site's "coffee boys"; union-mandated workers whose sole job was to handle lunch and coffee orders by negotiating deals with local delis and coffee shops, and bringing bulk containers of snacks and drinks for the staff, selling them at a profit. Making matters worse, Calabro later confessed to regularly abusing Andrea. According to the News, the union would generally have a "low-ball" estimate of six jobs going at a time, meaning $6000 a month, or $72,000 a year. Unlike Sonny, whose rackets extended from card games in Long Island to strip joint shakedowns in Manhattan, Gioeli downplayed his criminal prowess. The crew's lowest point was sometime in the 1990s since most of the family's guys backed Vic Orena during the war. Even though he couldn't be made, Pagan was trusted with running things on the street for the powerful Graziano when, in 2002, T.G. We dont typically kill police officers, he said. There was Anthony Basile, an on-record associate of one of the Bonanno crime familys most prolific killers, Tommy Pitera. It felt good when he won; no it felt great, Gioeli says. Gioeli had in fact touched index fingers to keyboard back before he was arrested, when he said it came time to prepare one of the traditional induction lists by which a crime family must secure approval from all the other crime families of its candidates for membership in the Mafia. But by the age of 19, Gioeli was boyhood pals with a neighborhood kid namedJoJo, whose father happened to be one of the Colombo crime family's biggest up-and-comers. Nicky met him (Sonny) as underboss," said Basciano, referring to a 2004 sitdown that took place with Gioeli, Franzese, and Santora regarding an unknown dispute. ", This conversation was revealed in a Gang Land column from September 8, 2005, which quoted one law enforcement source saying that the seemingly ageless Franzese had been "very active, playing an active role in the day-to-day affairs of the family," "He just keeps on trucking," said another source, adding that Sonny was "coordinating activities within the Colombo family and meeting with mobsters from other families.". Zuraw, who had no ties whatsoever to organized crime, was hanging shirts in a closet and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dino and Tommy were peas in a pod. That, Tommy hoped, would mark an all-too-peaceful end to his violent career in the Colombo crime family. Cheating is a common theme in the Mafia, although - by all accounts - Gioeli, an avid churchgoer, was never disloyal to wife Maureen. In the late 1990s, Persico and John DeRoss promoted Gioeli to Caporegime. According to Suflay, the mob partnership was mutually beneficial; "I'm making a killing at this job," he boasted. [4], On March 27, 1992, Gioeli and several Persico loyalists were ambushed, and became involved in a high-speed car chase. And, lastly, there was Thomas Irish Tommy McLaughlin, whose uncle/cousin happened to be the newly-inducted Colombo soldier Tommy Gioeli. A month later, the charges got more serious when he and Jackie DeRoss were busted for various union-related crimes. Due to his allegiance to Vic Orena during the Colombo war, Bevacqua helped "bridge the gap" between Gioeli and the remaining Orena holdouts.3. If he managed to skate through the charges, Tommy declared, he would peacefully retire and spend out his later years with his wife in their modest two-story home. All but guaranteeing he'd be behind bars for a while, Russo pushed for his sonJoJoto be inducted. "I'm saying, D, it's that bad?" To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand. After the first trial ended in a hung jury, the feds brought forward more witnesses the second time around and made a few more unsubstantiated allegations. After many (Danny Capaldo, Tommy McLaughlin, Joe Marra, Anthony Stropoli, and more) successfully maintained loansharking businesses from behind bars, the gangsters left prison to branch into gambling, home invasions, and drug-dealing. This is no small feat. The closure of the Persico case meant the FBI could now focus their full attention on Gioeli. Gargano was not named in the article, but the News confirmed the victim had disappeared from his parents' Bay Ridge, Brooklyn home on July 10, 1994, "after he was lured to a meeting by a Colombo family associate, sources said." The informer, Sonny's son & drug-addled associate John Franzese Jr., tape-recorded conversations with his dad and his pals, including Colombo soldier Frank' Frankie Camp' Campione. When one of Gioeli's four daughters was "bothered" by her boyfriend, Competiello said he went to the guy's house and cracked him in the face. The induction of Competiello and the Saracino Brothers took place at a residence on West 6th St., Gravesend, according to mob researcher JD. It wasnt made clear why Joe the Banker deserved such an attack; all Calabro remembers was that Gioeli raved about the victim as being a dirty old man. Regardless, the message was clear; Gioeli now had a crew of young and able hoodlums beneath him that didnt hesitate to get their hands dirty. Souza had been a violent associate since the 1990s, when he was assigned to Frankie Wheels Melia until the latter's death in 2001, according to JD. Gang Land News, correctly, predicted that the case against Sonny was just the beginning of the feds' onslaught on the crime family. When the FBI searched Gioeli's house in 2008, among the items they discovered were a photo of Tommy andJoJoin 1972, with broad smiles on their faces in front of a Farmingdale candy store. According to Basile, Dino told him all about murders he committed on behalf of his adopted "uncle" Tommy. In the mid-1980s, Gioeli was imprisoned for robbery, his first incarceration. In preparation for a future behind bars, Gioeli began getting his affairs in order. It is now up to the judge to decide if they will be used. A federal judge ruled that Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli will have to use his portion of the lawsuit cash, more than $182,000, to pay restitution to his victims as part of his 18-and-a-half year . Maragni left his journey to New York with a photo with the cast of The Sopranos and, more importantly, increased standing in the Colombo crime family. details 1 Copyright 2021 The Archive. According to a NY Daily News article from January 3, 2011, Rick Suflay bragged about the job to his mob cohorts at Farrell's Bar in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Greaves had asked the Colombo leadership for permission to leave the family and move to the Midwest. One time, Big & Little Dino, Richie Greaves and Joey Caves tried to rob a Mill Basin bank. On December 30, 2007, eight days after the carefree-looking Tommy posed for a photo with the fictional mob boss Tony Soprano, he got even more bad news regarding the feds' persistent investigation into his activities. Because they feel that Joe Waverly, they don't know what's gonna happen with Joe Waverly. Law enforcement sources told the Daily News on May 31 that "reputed Colombo soldier" Dino Calabro was eyed as a suspect. The media coverage of the tragic wrong-place-wrong-time murder was intense, and the Daily News reported on January 6 that the slaying marked the "continuation of a mob war to control a nationwide, multibillion-dollar smut ring." Perhaps Miciotta, whose central testimony related to the 1991-93 Colombo war, didn't see the relevance in pointing the finger for a crime the feds weren't particularly interested in, or perhaps - as Gioeli and his attorneys have long maintained - the pair weren't actually involved in the murder. Nightlife magazine editor Michael Cutino explained Gioeli's press credentials as the magazine was doing a nightclub promotion in The Hamptons and Gioeli worked for a company that provided attractive "cigarette girls" for the event. Then, as the group formed rackets in gambling, loansharking, shakedowns, cocaine and marijuana, two crew members - Michael Uvino and Michael Catapano - were inducted in a Greenpoint house, in either 2005 or 2006. Tommy Gioeli was the powerful acting boss of the Colombo family from 2003-2008, and helped rebuild the family through the 21st century. But former President D Victoria Gottis mansion featured in the hit reality show Growing Up Gotti has been foreclosed on by a bank, real estate records show. The meeting was convened, according to Maragni, because a Lucchese mobster named Joseph Imbergamo had complained to Colombos that Ren owed him $25,000. Thomas Gioeli was born in 1953 to Salvatore & Julie Gioeli and grew up in the quaint Long Island village of Farmingdale. He was there to discuss his future and, by extension, the future of New Yorks most violent and turbulent Mafia clan. By 1991 Orena, with the encouragement of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, felt strong enough to challenge Persico for total control of the family. Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. He has been remanded for more than three years to the starkly real Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, but he periodically manages a virtual escape into cyberspace, thanks to a restricted email system provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons and to the untiring efforts of a devoted daughter. Calabro said he had uttered an oath. In September 2007, the Colombo underboss got some more bad news - his protg, driver and leg-breaker Gaetano' Guy' Fatato was a two-year federal informer who taped over a thousand hours of conversation with Sonny and the Uvino crew. Incensed at the blatant breaking of Mafia rules, Carmine Persico requested that Chucky's crew whack them. David Gordon, an associate and confidante of Saracino's since the 1990s, was hit with a series of subpoenas in early 2008 for photographs, fingerprints, documents, and testimony relating to the Colombo crime family. Tommy Gioeli warned his young cousin about Greg Scarpa. At 6:45pm, on February 11, 1991, Gioeli, Calabro and Competiello entered the store posing as a father and his two sons shopping for Valentine's Day. And my spellings worse.. It was clearly a lapse in judgment for Franzese to trust his son, whom Gang Land had already outed as an informer back in 2000. These payments went up to a comfy $10,000 a month after Azzarelli began dabbling into the Joker-Poker business. Calabro had grown out his hair, making him look greasy and disheveled, while Joey Caves Competiello had shaved his head military-style and begun to grow a beard. Self Produced. Subpoenas were flying, search warrants were being executed. Jimmy Gooch, according to a sentencing memo cited in a Gang Land News article from October 18, 2012, "passed a message to Calabro" that the debtor "had reached out to a Genovese soldier." Be- fore betraying their crime leader as government witnesses, Competiello and Calabro had been loyal dogs. I sit down at the keyboard and type, he told The Daily Beast in a telephone interview. But Fatato, an enterprising mob associate with ties to three crime families, never ended up meeting Gioeli, and Franzese only hinted at his role as a "major player" in the mob. Allie, the son of imprisoned-for-life Colombo caporegime Anthony 'Chucky' Russo, sports a conviction from 1997 for assault but has not been linked to the affairs of his family's crime clan. On May 9, 2012, the jury returned a mixed verdict. "Nicky's got a relationship with Tommy Shots, so what I did, I used Nicky Santora." The triggerman, soldier Salvatore 'Big Sal' Miciotta - who was inducted in the same ceremony as Peraino Jr. - fled the scene, forced to report his failure back to his capo Chucky Russo. The wheels kept on turning in the world of organized crime. His protg and driver, Gaetano' Guy' Fatato, began wearing a wire in late 2005 and tipping the feds off about high-profile meetings Sonny was having with mob officials in several Long Island eateries. He enjoys being close to his two daughters and four grandchildren, but he hasn't been spared the complaints of age arthritic knees, a cranky shoulder, hearing loss. "He came home and cried his eyes out saying, 'I would never do that, no matter what kind of trouble I had.' was charged with racketeering and murder conspiracy in New York and Florida. Since Andy Mush had just been arrested on bribery charges that year, Gioeli became an on-record associate of his acting capo & nephew Anthony 'Chucky' Russo, who was so close to Mush that he was frequently mistaken by Greg Scarpa as his son. The murdered cop was left to stagger bleeding into his house and die before his horrified wife. Franzese was one of the first family pioneers to make the journey to Long Island in search of new suburban rackets, according to Daily News articles from the time. But, after years of dodging undercover tails and avoiding federal wiretaps, prosecutors were finally getting somewhere and Tommy could read the writing on the wall. Featuring FAIR WARNING voice TOMMY HEART, EUROPE's legendary guitarist KEE MARCELLO, KEN SANDIN (ALIEN) on. Lamenting the fact that he was seemingly immune from prosecution, a police source told Jerry Capeci in January 2005: "He's got a crew of shooters who haven't really gotten touched.". northwestern college graduation 2022; elizabeth stack biography. Gioeli served prison time in the 1970s for robbery and was released in 1980. But on this pleasant Spring morning, Tommy wasnt there to mull over Bible verses. 11/16/11 AT 12:14 PM EST. Calabro's other day-to-day activities also included settling disputes between his crew with other families, including elderly Colombo soldier Vincent' Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro. In a split verdict that stunned many trial watchers, Gioeli was acquitted in 2012 of several murders that . Better yet, despite being charged with six murders, including an NYPD officer, Gioeli is slated to exit prison in 2024 at the age of 71. This makes those incriminating photos of you drunk on Facebook look like nothing. By 1989, the 36-year-old Tommy was amassing an array of Joker-Poker machines; illegal video gaming devices which he would install (forcibly or otherwise) in local establishments from Brooklyn to Long Island. On June 4, 2008, Gioeli was indicted for robbery, extortion, the 1991 Marassa murder, and the 1992 Minerva and Imbergamo murders. He was scribbling busily on a notepad--and some of it might even end up in the first accused-mob-boss blog. Given that they weren't on the scene, the pair would have heard, but not seen, the five shotgun blasts by the four-man hit team, and would later find out that the hit went horribly wrong. A reputed Mafia boss won't be trading his prison stripes for a pinstripe suit on his daughter's wedding day. How is Thomas Gioeli managing to post about life behind bars? The following day, Saracino admitted to Gordon that, despite the "wall of silence," a future behind bars was almost a guarantee. Love, the Gioeli family., With regards to the Colombo crime family, Gioeli protests the prosecution of another alleged boss, 93-year-old Sonny Francese, whose tendency to nod off during court proceedings caused him to become known in the newspapers as the Nodfather.. Andrew 'Andy Mush' Russo, who was among the many Colombo gangsters that had migrated their families and their rackets to Long Island, was an influential underworld figure who was then attending various functions with mob bosses across the country on behalf of his imprisoned cousin, boss Carmine 'Junior' Persico. Gioeli's under-the-radar lifestyle saw a period of relative stability for the Colombo crime family, at least compared with New York's other four. Terrible, he said. Apparently, Cacace "suggested luring Lombardo to Cacace's boat and killing him there," according to the documents, and the crew seemed to be close to getting it done. With these three loosely connected facts, the feds fleshed out an incorrect analysis of what happened to Cutolo's body. They were placed in storefronts, bars, and eateries, and the profits were generally split 50/50 with the store's owner. According to his indictment, Souza dispatched associates to watch Pagan at his house and around Staten Island. Gioeli has a wife Maureen and owns a home in Farmingdale, New York. He never missed the parishs Sunday service, and was good pals with the pastor. In early 2008, Tommy Shots sent Big Dino and Joey Caves Competiello to hunt down radio disc jockey 'Goumba Johnny' for getting "fresh" with one of Gioeli's daughters. He didn't talk Mafia business at home or at any other meeting place easy to bug. Mugshot of Thomas Gioeli from the 1970s (Source: LCNBios.blogspot.com), Mugshot of Joseph 'Junior Lollipops' Carna from 1977, Joseph Peraino Sr. following the shooting (Source: NY Daily News), Andrew 'Andy Mush' Russo, 1984 (Source: Getty Images). Big Dino Calabro's self-described protg was Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello, whose graffiti name was The Rock. Five years younger than Dino, Competiello was a "tough kid," he testified in 2012, arrested at the age of 13 for joyriding a stolen car across the Verrazano Bridge. Such personas, while it might not have been good for the wiseguys' street cred, would hopefully make them look less like Mafiosi in the eyes of a jury. One of his key aides, a tough old-timer named Paulie Bevacqua, helped bring the various rebelling factions back under one flag. They planned to throw a cinderblock through a window while the employees were emptying the night depository boxes, but, embarrassingly, the brick bounced off without shattering the window, and the crew had to flee the scene. Before then, Maragni was the driver of flashy Colombo underboss Gennaro' Jerry Lang' Langella and recalled seeing Tommy Shots at Monte's Venetian restaurant back in the '70s. In addition to murdering a nun, Gioeli has been charged for murdering an off-duty police officer, Ralph Dols, who was ambushed outside his home in 1997. McLaughlin, his brother-in-law Peter Tagliavia, Ilario' Fat Larry' Sessa, Gaetano' Tommy' Gallo, possibly Jerry Ciauri, and other violent associates formerly under Greg Scarpa's Dyker Heights decina were all under the wing of Little Dino, according to court records from Saracino's indictment, Sessa's sentencing memo, and Gallo's indictment. The names of her daughter are Havalli and Samaria. But, sources said, John Jr. tearfully denied Capeci's allegations (which were backed up by various law enforcement sources), according to the May 2007 article." Tommy, Big Dino, and Richie staked out the owner of Pat's Farms in Farmingdale, a Long Island jewelry store on Route 109 and Hempstead Turnpike, the back office of Farmingdale's Adventureland amusement park and an armored car depot on Route 110, but canceled all those heists for one reason or another. (Jesse Ward for New York Daily . But from that encounter, Gioeli took a liking to Reynold, and they met up again at Christmastime of that year. In fact, Gioelis nickname among his Colombo peers was Tommy Machines, specifically because of his Joker-Poker prowess, the proceeds of which he would split 50/50 with the establishments proprietor. When Monte came out, the two young hoods gave him a beating in broad daylight. he mused. I sit down at the keyboard and type, he told The Daily Beast in a telephone interview. His success in the industry earned Gioeli the moniker "Tommy Machines. Thats just a rule in the Mafia. Franzese's nephew, Michael Catapano, garnered a reputation as an up-and-comer in the family whose underlings grew pot, sold coke, and shook down area businesses. Published Sun Jul 21 2019 By Samana. The murdered cop was left to stagger bleeding into his house and die before his horrified wife. 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