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Gang Land - the Column Gang Land - The Column http://www.ganglandnews.com/members/thisweek.htm Real Stuff About Organized Crime The nation's foremost EXPERT on the American Mafia Jerry Capeci MY ACCOUNT HOME This Week About Us Capeci's Books Book Shelf Mafia Women Archives Five Families Links This Week In Gang Land June 16, 2011 By Jerry Capeci Wiseguy: I Did NOT Order John "Junior" Killing; Lie Test Will Prove It! John Gotti Gotti Like his famed uncle, nephew Theodore (Skinny Teddy) Persico likes to write letters. Read Behind bars for 16 months and awaiting Last Week's two trials for racketeering and extortion, Salvatore "Bull" Leroy "Nicky" Column the Colombo capo writes to say that he is Gravano Barnes sick and tired of hearing from the feds – and reading in Gang Land – that he had a role in the 1990 gangland-style slaying of a drug dealer- turned stool pigeon. So much so that he has asked Gang Land to help correct the record. Vincent "Chin" Gregory Scarpa Gigante Persico’s written plea echoes the jailhouse letters that his imprisoned-for-life uncle and Mafia boss Carmine (Junior) Persico penned decades ago. Back in the 1980s, Uncle Junior sent a series of missives from prison, most of them airing similar gripes about alleged prosecution lies repeated in the press. Nephew Teddy’s complaint comes as law Carmine "Junior" Nicholas "Little enforcement sources confirm that a turncoat capo has Persico Nick" Corozzo fingered a trio of old Skinny Teddy cronies for the March 26, 1990 murder. Teddy Persico, 47, knows that just because he was jailed at the time, and that three others are implicated in the actual killing, doesn’t mean that he had nothing to do with it. But to Anthony Frank "Frankie prove his innocence, Teddy, who has spent more than 20 "Gaspipe" Casso Loc" Locascio years behind bars, wants to take a lie detector test while housed in his current digs at the Metropolitan Detention Center. “I never sent any message from prison” to kill Vincent (Scoobie) Lafaro, wrote Persico in a June 5 note to Gang Liborio "Barney" Land. He added that he “never sent anyone in my whole Leonard DiMaria Bellomo entire life a coded letter” – a reference to assertions by the feds that Skinny Teddy sent a “coded message” to an incarcerated buddy to tell him that the 27-year-old Lafaro had been whacked. 1 of 6 6/17/11 5:59 PM Gang Land - The Column http://www.ganglandnews.com/members/thisweek.htm Contact Gang Land “Nor did I even know that Lafaro was free FBI - Intelligence Jerry Capeci from prison at the time he was murdered,” P.O. Box 863 Degree Long Beach, NY 11561 added Persico, disputing allegations that Earn an Copyright, 2010 he ordered cohorts to whack the turncoat. Intelligence All Rights Reserved Lafaro did not testify against Persico, but Degree Online at he did give cops info they used to nail him American Military on state drug charges in 1988. That same University. year, Lafaro testified in federal court www.AMU.APUS.edu/Intelligence against other Colombo mobsters. American Gang Land first reported that Persico was implicated in the Express ® Cards 21-year-old slaying in January, noting that several Special Offers turncoats, and a jailhouse photo of him and mob associate when You Apply for a Card Today! Joseph (Joey Cupcake) Urgitano that the FBI seized from a Learn More. wall at Rao’s restaurant had linked him to it. www.AmericanExpress.com/Offers Along with his missive to Gang Land, Persico enclosed a Gang Violence letter he sent earlier this month to the lead prosecutor in his Prevention case, assistant U.S. attorney Amy Busa, to inform her that, as 2011 Gang he told FBI agents who arrested him 16 months ago, he Training wants to take a lie detector test about the killing. Conference Chicago, August Last year, wrote Persico, FBI agent Donald Kornek and 8-10, 2011 probation officer Robert Anton told him “they would follow www.ngcrc.com the evidence and did not want to give me a lie detector test.” Despite that rejection, Persico told the feds that he is Password Vault “once again” requesting one, “specifically pertaining to the Secure, conspiracy to murder Lafaro,” to prove his innocence. centralized password vault for Lawyers on the case are skeptical of his chances. “It’ll never enterprises. Try now happen,” said an attorney who represents a Persico ManageEngine.com/PasswordManagerPro codefendant. The feds “use lie detectors when they’re trying to charge people with crimes, not when someone says he’s innocent,” he said. “And then, they do what they want, anyway.” The attorney cited the recent, failed death penalty prosecution of Bonanno capo Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano as an May 6, 2004 example. In that case, the feds gave THE SHOT THAT LOST turncoat Mafia boss Joseph Massino (right) THE WAR two lie detector tests about his claim that Vinny Gorgeous plotted to kill a May 26, 1997 prosecutor. Even after Massino failed both CATERING CONS FEAST; GUARDS tests, the feds wired him up in an effort to GO BELLY UP get Basciano to implicate himself in a murder conspiracy against assistant U.S. May 10, 2001 attorney Greg Andres. SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES “Not only do the feds have all the cards,” added the PIZZA frustrated lawyer, “they stack the deck. And when that doesn’t work, they deal from the bottom of the deck.” May 3, 1999 COLOMBO BOYS That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but don’t expect the WIN THE WAR FBI or the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office to hook Persico up to a polygraph machine anytime soon. And as you might May 10, 1999 expect, spokesmen for both offices declined to comment WASHED UP MURDER about Persico’s quest for a lie detector test. PLOT 2 of 6 6/17/11 5:59 PM Gang Land - The Column http://www.ganglandnews.com/members/thisweek.htm May 17, 1999 But even without a polygraph, Persico says LIFE in his letter to prosecutor Busa that his WITHOUT claims of innocence are “backed up” by HONOR a tape-recorded conversation that then-capo Anthony (Big Anthony) Russo May 25, 2006 had with wired-up Colombo informer MICKEY BOY, THE Thomas McLaughlin last year, before Russo MOUTH THAT ROARED switched sides and teamed up with the feds. Sources say that during the discussion Big Anthony says that longtime Colombo family associates Edward (Tall Guy) Garofalo, Paul Meyers, and Robert Tarantola were involved in shooting Lafaro to death in front of his Bensonhurst, Brooklyn home – but does not implicate Persico in the slaying. Garofalo, 44, is awaiting trial on labor racketeering charges with Persico and his cousin, Michael Persico. Meyers, 47, is a reputed drug dealer. Tarantola, 46, a convicted drug dealer who was released from prison in 2003, was a Persico faction ally during the bloody 1991-93 family feud. Sources say that all three, as well as Teddy Persico, are targets of an ongoing investigation into the murder by Busa, who is unlikely to pay much attention to Persico’s letter. Meanwhile, at least one Persico pen pal wants off his list. Brooklyn Federal Judge Kiyo Matsumoto wasn’t thrilled to receive her own three page letter from Persico recently. The letter asked the judge to sever him from the 39-defendant indictment pending before her, and combine the charges against him to those in his pending labor racketeering case so he can resolve all his charges at one trial. In a terse reply Tuesday, Matsumoto directed defense attorney Jonathan Marks “to inform his client that all submissions and communications with the court must be made through counsel” or they will not be considered. Said Marks: “I have already made that request to the proper person at this point – the prosecutor – and am waiting to hear back from her.” Meanwhile, Judge Sandra Townes still hasn’t found someone to replace Perisco’s ousted attorney, Joseph Corozzo, as well as lawyers for two other defendants who have dropped out of the labor racketeering case. Through her courtroom deputy, she has indicated that the trial is likely to be adjourned until next year. 3 of 6 6/17/11 5:59 PM Gang Land - The Column http://www.ganglandnews.com/members/thisweek.htm Biz-Man: I Hired Tacopina For $20G; He Bedded My Wife Red hot attorney Joseph Tacopina, who has been scoring big wins in court lately, was once accused of scoring with a client’s wife. The episode led to a divorce action in which the client – who had hired the handsome Tacopina to handle a federal grand jury subpoena – accused the barrister of bedding his wife instead of battling the feds, Gang Land has learned. The lawsuit was filed by the owner of a well-known Queens eatery who paid Tacopina a $20,000 fee to represent him – not as a subject or target of an investigation – but as a witness before the panel. Gang Land is withholding the name of the restaurateur, who has no criminal record, and is clearly a victim here. According to court papers, the businessman alleged that two months after he paid the attorney his hefty retainer fee, his wife of five years began meeting Tacopina in Manhattan hotels and having an affair with the always well-coiffed attorney. Here’s how the cuckolded chef put it in an affidavit: “In or about March, 2002, I hired a lawyer named Joseph Tacopina to represent me in that (grand jury) proceeding. Not more than two months after retaining Mr.
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