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 . It's unknown if, by 2000, Melia Jr. was a member of Gioeli's crew, a member of Sonny Franzese's Long Island crew, or a capo in his own right.Down in Brooklyn and Staten Island, the crew consisted of;1. I'm going to hell, said Gioeli to a fellow gangster after accidentally slaying a nun according to court documents. You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. [2], In 1997, Gioeli allegedly participated in the murder of Ralph Dols, a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer. News sources also reported that a Colombo family associate serving a "life sentence for murder and racketeering" was also being eyed in the murder. In a conversation from May 6, 2008, crew member David Gordon brought up the fact that more and more stories were coming out about wiseguys ratting on one another. The acting boss was always one step ahead of the feds too, unlike his long-suffering underboss. Former Colombo street boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli, 67, is seeking to get out of prison about four years early because of the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to an email sent by the Victim-Witness Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York, a copy of which was forwarded to Cosa Nostra News today. He clearly preferred the risk of that to spending the rest of his life in prison. Graziano, the Souzas made plans to whack him. Unfortunately, Frank was murdered in April of 1998. He demonstrated himself to be the most modern of alleged mob bosses. With that murder looming over their heads, the trio discussed whether their career in the Colombo crime family would have to end, according to Competiello's trial testimony. In 1984, Andrew Russo was indicted again along with cousin Carmine Persico in the Concrete Case, a headline-grabbing bust that culminated in arrests for allFiveFamilies. When Dave again asked if it was "that bad," Saracino seemed nonchalant. He shook down area business owners for "protection money," according to court papers, including the owner of a nightclub on Route 110 for $2000 a month. Calabro insisted that he had not known the victim was a cop at the time of the shooting. They met at Villagio's restaurant in West Palm Beach and Gioeli, impressed with Maragni's long allegiance to the Colombo family, notified him that he was going to be 'straightened out' that March. Gioeli and Calabro presided over the ceremony, as well as the recently-released Sonny Franzese and South Brooklyn capo Joseph Baudanza, who inducted a crew member of his own named Little Craig Marino. The names of her daughter are Havalli and Samaria. He offered a succinct appraisal of his typing skills. In fact, Peraino Sr. and his brother Louis had indeed been convicted the month prior in Miami of conspiracy to distribute pornographic films, and the pair were on bail awaiting sentencing. 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. Almost as soon as he was inducted, however, he was officially "shelved" from family affairs after his son, Junior, got into some serious debt with the wrong wiseguys. He has his daughter post his TRULINGS musings in a blog called. The Daily News described her on January 6, 1982, as a "tireless social worker who often worked out of an office at St. Finbar's Church on Bay 20th St. She also served as director of social services for the Italian Board of Guardians in Brooklyn." The other inductee in the Greenpoint apartment, however, was decidedly less successful than Uvino & Catapano. 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. The father-son partners-in-crime had apparently progressed from dealing porn to narcotics, and Joe Jr. had refused to take part in a hit that was requested by Gambino boss Big Paul Castellano. Allie became convinced that the aging Lombardo was an undercover informant, and put the plans in motion before his imprisonment to have him murdered. 2008. He always had a goomah on the side and even raised an illegitimate child. Gioeli nixed the idea - "Absolutely not," he said. Both Calabros are currently in the witness-protection program. When no banks were available to rob, the crew tried their hand at sticking up other stores, but these were obviously less profitable. Only briefly staying in the Big Apple, Ren had been accompanying Tommy to various sitdowns and get-togethers after Gioeli straightened him out in March of 2008. His projected release date is May 7, 2024. If he wasn't at church, Gioeli would hold court while practicing bowling at the Country Line Bowling Alley, just like he did during the Greaves hit. Former Colombo acting boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court yesterday to 18 years in prison for racketeering and murder conspiracy raps. 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. How long more does he got to live?" In fact, Vinny Gorgeous would later be proven right. Gioeli certainly has a way with words. Gioeli also took a liking to McLaughlin's 20-year-old friend, the Sicilian-born Big Dino Calabro. Subpoenas were flying, search warrants were being executed. In the blog, Gioeli proclaims himself an unconvicted American man being denied basic rights and health care, a victim of the tactics of Nazi Germany and Stalins Russia. Gioeli assigns insulting nicknames to the prosecution team and accuses an FBI agent of being inappropriate with the wife of an informant. Gioeli accuses the informant, Big Dino Calabro, himself of beating his wife, poisoning a supposed buddys pet fish, shooting his own dog, and murdering numerous enemies and friends. Calabro is unreachable in protective custody and has no blog of his own with which to respond. "I wanted what he had, Calabro later testified about Gioeli. Calabro testified that Gioeli had been something of a mentor, advising him on how to kill. Joe Waverly also pushed for Gioeli and Big Dino to rob a jewelry store in Manhattan. 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). Truckloads of loot were regularly taken from one particular L.I. Therefore, following his ceremony, Calabro was not placed in Tommy Gioeli's crew, but in Ralph Lombardo's Middle Village decina. 11/16/11 AT 12:14 PM EST. Tony Urso, a ruling panel member, told the other three attendees; "You see, the Colombos right now, their captains are the administration. Gioeli was cleared of the Cutolo and Dols murders, but convicted of racketeering conspiracy to commit murder in the Minerva and Marasa cases. A Brazilian-born ex-nun, Zuraw met an accountant and moved to America to pursue her relationship with him. The blog bestows members of the prosecution team with such nicknames as "The Liar", "The Prune" and "The Seducer". All rights reserved. In January of 2000, a Commission meeting was convened by Bonanno family godfather Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino, at the house of longtime Bonanno soldier Louis Restivo, according to Gang Land News. The governor wont be embracing the bill despised by landlords and supported by tenant advocates. On January 7, 2005, turncoat Bonanno boss Joey Massino - who had been wearing a wire in a Brooklyn detention center against his acting boss Vinny Basciano - was shocked to hear news of Franzese's ascension, despite Sonny having held the title of underboss in the 1980s as well. Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli was once the acting boss of the Colombo Crime Family. Tommy Shots apologized to Ren at the wedding of Allie Russo, which took place shortly after Ren's induction. He's a nut. 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. Gioelis wife and at least one of his daughters sat in the courtroom as admitted capo and hit man Big Dino Calabro took the stand as the governments star witness. Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. Little Dino, meanwhile, was further ingratiating himself into the Brooklyn underworld, making himself a valuable asset for Big Dino. 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. One of the crew's most successful heists took place in Syosset, Long Island, at Furs by Mina on 408 Jericho Turnpike. When Calabro hooked his own crew members to coffee boy jobs, he'd take a hefty fifty/fifty cut, he told the feds. The punishment against the baker was for falsely claiming he had been inducted into the Colombo crime family. Gioeli was not actually charged with killing the nun, but he remained accused of six murders when he went on trial this month. "God damn, look at these women," Gordon agreed. 1 2 Marzulli, John (July 15, 2010). But, given his job in running a Brooklyn-based crime family, Tommy Shots had to telecommute if he didn't want to leave his hood. There are many more accusations piling up again Gioeli, six murders in total, but despite the mounting claims, the Gioeli family remains bent on proving Tommy Shots' innocence. "The reality is most laborers are not interested in the headaches and complaints involved in the job and, more importantly, most laborers are not qualified to properly take the coffee and lunch orders for what can be as little as five laborers and often can be for as many as 100 or more," the union said in its response.". 2. In early 2008, Scopo got Calabro's approval to promote his son from secretary-treasurer of the union to business manager, according to mob informer David Gordon, an aide of Dino Saracino. With Jackie DeRoss also in prison, Gioeli elected a fellow Long Islander to replace him as underboss; legendary capo John 'Sonny' Franzese, an 86-year-old who had commanded influence in both Brooklyn & Long Island since his days as a caporegime in the 1950s and 1960s. He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. trucking depot before the scene became too "hot" for future attempts. If I repeat anything that happens in here, I should die and burn in hell, Calabro recalled. [11][12][13], In July 2010, Gioeli was indicted in the 1997 Dols murder. In 1989, the imprisoned Colombo boss Carmine Persico appointed Orena to be his temporary acting boss. Then, Big Dino brought in Little Dino, who took over the monthly collections. Retrieved 10 October 2011. Thomas Salvatore "Tommy Shots" Gioeli (born 1952), is a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family. Copyright IBTimes 2023. Little Dino operated his own lucrative shylock business with over $100,000 on the street, which tied into a sports betting operation he ran with Sebby and other Colombos. This is no small feat. But in the underworld, Tommy was anything other than low-rent. Later on, Dennis also introduced him to both Jimmy Gooch and Billy Russo, but not Vinny Manzo, who was shelved at the time. Tommy Gioeli warned his young cousin about Greg Scarpa. The sleepy-looking Tommy was hit with a barrage of cameras as he did the 'perp walk' outside Brooklyn Federal Court, shouldered by two typical-looking FBI agents. All Rights Reserved. With Joey Competiello as the getaway driver, they made off with $20,000, which they split with Tommy. 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. Lawyers for the prosecution say the photos (and an address book!) Ren was given all the family's Florida-based made members who were previously split among other crews. Fellow Queens capo, Ralphie Lombardo, who was released from prison in 2006, was still viewed with distrust by Gioeli. On that day, Allie called Tommy's phone, then he called Long Island marina. Call him the blogging crime boss: Reputed Colombo kingpin Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has set up a behind-bars blog to portray himself as . The same couldn't be said for Anthony Basile, Calabro's old Bensonhurst pal from the '80s and '90s. Apart from a 1974 stock fraud conviction, the cautious wiseguy had avoided any prosecutions in his lengthy tenure in the Borgata. He was scribbling busily on a notepad--and some of it might even end up in the first accused-mob-boss blog. But when Little Dino, the lookout, spotted a security guard stumble onto the scene, the plan was ruined, and they hastily aborted. ", For the time being, Tommy Gioeli's composure and presentation seemed to work, at least for Little Dino Saracino. Each week during football season, an unnamed Colombo family associate faxed a sheet that listed a variety of college and professional football games to Sebby's California home. Possibly Frank Melia Jr., 54, who was also a Long Island-based capo during the 1990s. Tommy Gioeli was the powerful acting boss of the Colombo family from 2003-2008, and helped rebuild the family through the 21st century. Tommy Shots also arranged for the mugging of a drug dealer; he organized Big Dino and Richie Greaves to enter the dealer's house as flower deliverymen. When feds arrested him and eleven associates on December 12, 2006, they seized the silencer from Souza's car. Gioeli, acting as an underworld tour guide for Maragni, next took the Floridian to the infamous "de-pantsing" of the aforementioned Louie Canoli Borgognone. The press fell hook, line, and sinker into Tommy Shots' sloppy style and his apparent poor fashion sense, evidenced by an unnecessarily cruel New York Daily News headline; "MOBSTER SLOBSTER: Long way from Dapper Don to Thomas the Train Wreck." Nothing changed for accused mob bosses and Gioeli was still behind bars at the holidays. We had an informant tell us it would take an earthquake to unearth this guy's body," one police source told the News. The "BPB," similar in nature to the Dyker Heights-based Wimpy Boys or the Bonanno's infamous Bath Avenue Crew, became a key Colombo family "farm team," and by 1991 consisted of;Tommy Gioeli, 38, the crew's leader.Big Dino Calabro, 24, Gioeli's right-hand-man.Richie Greaves, 22, a Brooklyn-based burglar.Irish Tommy McLaughlin, 22, the scrappy cousin/nephew of Gioeli. Paul 'Paulie Guns' Bevacqua, 61, a Long Island-based aide of Gioeli. It is now up to the judge to decide if they will be used. Twenty years later, when he moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Maragni became the "liaison" to New York for Floridian associates. An accused Mafia kingpin has started a blog from prison:. Everything seemed perfect - Big Dino and Greaves had built a plywood structure around them to obscure their attempt, while Caves and Sebby used a blowtorch to melt the screws securing the night deposit box to the wall of the bank. "Dave, numbers are coming home Fifty-two years old, I'll be, it's a good deal." According to True Crime Report, one of his daughters has set up a blog, Tommy Gioeli's Voice, which serves as a platform for the family to denounce any accusations or evidence brought against Gioeli. La rgion n'est pas forcment la plus souriante du monde et les groupes de mtal qui y prosprent donnent volontiers dans l'extrme . Saracino was accused of the slaying along with Colombo street boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli on orders from then family boss Joel "Joe Waverly" Cacace. Alphonse Persico had been recently convicted of a gun possession charge in Florida; he feared that Cutolo, a former Orena lieutenant, would seize control of the Colombo family. That was all it took for the powerful godfathers world to come crashing down. Published Sun Jul 21 2019 By Samana. "How am I going to go 17 years without girls? But, Basciano pondered; "He's in some shape, Bo. Keeping abreast of the cops with a police scanner, the crew made off with 150 high-end fur coats worth $900,000 at retail value. How is Thomas Gioeli managing to post about life behind bars? A mobster's wish of giving his daughter away at her wedding doesn't have the feds' blessing. 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. Frankie Saracino was not a full-time member of the Bay Parkway Boys, but Little Dino fronted him the money to buy cocaine in the mid-to-late 1990s. He took the pair for a scenic walk along the Our Lady of Lourdes Church Rosary and grotto - the same place where he had allegedly ordered Wild Bill's death. 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. Atasha Chizaah Jefferson also known as Tommie Lee from Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta is a mom of two beautiful girls. Fatato was forced to be taken off the streets when he took part in - and recorded - the grueling beating and pistol-whipping of two dimwitted gamblers who orchestrated the robbing Uvino's Lindenhurst card game. Gioeli allegedly took the order from Cacace and arranged for Calabro and Colombo mobster Dino Saracino to shoot Dols outside his Brooklyn house.[3]. While Greg 'the Grim Reaper' Scarpa turned Brooklyn into a battlefield during the 1990s, a low-key ally was doing the same thing in Long Island. Tommy Shots first befriended Ren in 2007. Around this time, Gioeli began mentoring his 18-year-old cousin, Thomas 'Irish Tommy' McLaughlin, a rough-and-tumble half-Irish, half-Italian Bensonhurst hoodlum. That, Tommy hoped, would mark an all-too-peaceful end to his violent career in the Colombo crime family. After his exit from prison, he eschewed his old friend John and became best friends with another neighborhood crook named Richie Greaves. She does a little bit of editing, Gioeli allows. Cheating is a common theme in the Mafia, although - by all accounts - Gioeli, an avid churchgoer, was never disloyal to wife Maureen. Even his phone was immune from court-authorized wiretaps, since Tommy got his cellphones made special from a mob associated telecommunications company. "He came home and cried his eyes out saying, 'I would never do that, no matter what kind of trouble I had.' [4] The robbery indictment involved a 1991 fur shop robbery in which Gioeli allegedly posed as a customer. With these three loosely connected facts, the feds fleshed out an incorrect analysis of what happened to Cutolo's body. Among the decisions made unanimously at the meeting, the Colombos were finally granted the privilege to induct members, a right which had been stripped from them a decade prior due to the ongoing conflict. Calabro may have also had beef-by-association with the Bonanno crime family, thanks to an unpopular crew member he inducted in a Sheepshead Bay apartment in 2005. On February 9, 2010, Gioeli was briefly hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. Ingratiating himself with his new pal, Calabro soon buddied up to Greaves friends. Ennab, 19, a stickup artist. They had been collared as being two of the "45 top porn wholesalers across the country.". 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 . "Tommy said, 'Absolutely not,' " Competiello said. "Oh, it's bad then, huh D?" That day, he took Fatato along with a bunch of crew members to pistol-whip and interrogate the gamblers as to who conducted the actual robbery. He had the power to get me in. Before long, Dino was accompanying his new mentor - who was fourteen years his senior - to pick up cash from his Joker-Poker spots. He then signs on to the BOPs Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TULINGS) and begins doing something that no other accused Mafia boss has been known to do. That's fucked up, 17 years, D." Little Dino confirmed that he was looking at that sort of time for his crimes. My saintly elderly mother who just buried my father, my poor wife, my precious children, my priests, the rest of my family, friends and the people I just know he wrote. Although John wasnt too entrenched in racketeering, his brother Mario was a full-time member of the Wimpy Boys, a misleadingly-named crew of murderers, loansharks and extortionists under the command of father-and-son Colombo mobsters Greg Scarpa Sr. and Jr. With John Parlagreco, Big Dino began stealing cars and burglarizing homes, and then showed up to the Wimpy Boys social club on 13th Ave. and 75th St. to chat about his endeavors. Calabro passed that along to Tommy Shots, who used his status as the Colombo's feared boss to work out a settlement in which the debtor agreed to "refinance his house to repay the loan. They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who flip to help federal investigators. After another heist, everyone in the team sported flashy leather jackets after Richie Greaves, acting on a tip from Tommy Shots, robbed a truckload of those. The trip to New York ended up being for nothing; Imbergamo quickly realized that Maragni wasn't the person that owed him the cash, and it was all a big misunderstanding. Gioeli has a wife Maureen and owns a home in Farmingdale, New York. Tommy told me. Peraino Sr. was hit in the buttocks, but he survived for another sixteen years. Thanks for your continued support, it means so much. What a change socially and politically.. details 1 Copyright 2021 The Archive. Coffee boys could make $1000 a week before the mob showed up and charged them $250 weekly for the job privilege. Featuring FAIR WARNING voice TOMMY HEART, EUROPE's legendary guitarist KEE MARCELLO, KEN SANDIN (ALIEN) on. His success in the industry earned Gioeli the moniker "Tommy Machines. The first album by the new band OUT OF THIS WORLD. You dont kill kids, you dont kill cops.. Then, Dino changed the tone of the conversation altogether. 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. All but guaranteeing he'd be behind bars for a while, Russo pushed for his sonJoJoto be inducted. But for Gioeli and Co., it had to be business as usual. But shakedowns weren't the only hustle going on. 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.. He's totally low-rent.". The president was criticized for being too hands off on Obamacare repeal, both in persuading members of Congress to support the final effort and in crafting what that final effort looked like. He was released from prison in January 2004 after serving time for a probation violation - restrictions which would not end until 2020, and which would constantly set back his career of crime. Sebby and his pals took bets in L.A., and Little Dino did the same in New York. Meanwhile, his house was raided and, according to Gioeli, his wife and daughters were held at gunpoint by overzealous federal agents, who seized everything from funeral Mass cards to a VIP pass for a Farmingdale nightclub. Anthony Kenny, a little-known thief with ties to the Bonanno family.Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello, 19, a self-described protg of Calabro.Dino 'Little Dino' and Sebastiano 'Sebby' Saracino, 18 and 26, respectively. He lived in Fort Lauderdale, just like he had for over a decade, where he had been a close pal of Allie Persico. If anybody needs a job, just let me know and I'll take care of it through my son.". Sometimes the crew even resorted to mugging to make a fast buck. At a sitdown at the restaurant, Gioeli's exact words were; "Go in the corner and stay there and don't come out. The induction of Competiello and the Saracino Brothers took place at a residence on West 6th St., Gravesend, according to mob researcher JD. According to Basile, Dino told him all about murders he committed on behalf of his adopted "uncle" Tommy. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. In his years of FBI scrutiny, Tommy Shots was never caught on tape saying anything incriminating, and he made it almost impossible for feds to tail him around the Farmingdale neighborhood he knew so well. And, when burying a victim, the standard practice was to dump in a bag of lime. northwestern college graduation 2022; elizabeth stack biography. The Colombos held an iron grip over the union since the days when all Five Families rigged bids and inflated prices on major building sites in New York City. 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. Basile flipped after being charged with the 1992 murder of New York Post executive Robert Perrino, and he quickly fingered Calabro and Gioeli in the killings of John Minerva & Michael Imbergamo, as well as Calabro's involvement in the accidental murder of Carlos Pagan and a 1991 fur store robbery that Gioeli, Calabro and Joe Competiello had pulled off. He also owned a Sons of Italy social club where he held court with his crew. (Note; This is a different person to Joseph Joe Monte Monteleone, a Colombo family soldier). Once upon a time, prospective wiseguys were never told when they were going to be made - they were ordered to dress nice and meet somewhere. March 27, 1992 - Persico loyalists Thomas (Tommy) Gioeli and Joseph (Joe Monte) Monteleone are seriously wounded by survive . 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