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. Up in Queens, capo Joseph Baudanza ran a crew involved in a lucrative $20 million pump-and-dump scheme and, as well as having blood ties to the Lucchese family and business ties to the Bonannos, allegedly served as the Colombo family's "liaison" to the Russian Mafia, according to turncoat Kenny Gallo. As the war progressed, many Orena loyalist switched sides to the Persico faction to avoid being killed. Calabro insisted that he had not known the victim was a cop at the time of the shooting. Maragni recalled mingling with Tommy Gioeli, William 'Billy' Russo, Dennis DeLucia, Vincent' Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro and Vincent' Downtown Vinny' Manzo, all inducted Colombo gangsters. Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. 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. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011. In 1982, Gioeli allegedly participated in the accidental killing of Veronica Zuraw, a former Catholic nun. According to Suflay, the mob partnership was mutually beneficial; "I'm making a killing at this job," he boasted. To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand. The early months of 2008 were a hectic time for the acting boss and his crew. The Cacace arrest but would all but ensure that the ultraviolent acting boss wouldn't leave prison until he was an old man. 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. 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 clearly preferred the risk of that to spending the rest of his life in prison. As mentioned before, Gioeli's acting capo Paulie Guns Bevacqua began wearing a wire in March of 2008 although, with the heat mounting against Tommy Shots, the aging Long Island acting capo isn't believed to have drawn any incriminating remarks from his boss. Middle-aged and plague with ailments, Tommy was thinking of stepping down as acting boss, and Calabro as capo, but Competiello offered a plausible solution - he would get the feds off their backs by taking the fall for the Richie Greaves murder. Both Calabros are currently in the witness-protection program. Straightened out at the ripe old age of 64, Vinny Manzo made his bones when he helped out in the hit of Wild Bill Cutolo. You gonna come visit me, Dave?" The punishment against the baker was for falsely claiming he had been inducted into the Colombo crime family. And, lastly, there was Thomas Irish Tommy McLaughlin, whose uncle/cousin happened to be the newly-inducted Colombo soldier Tommy Gioeli. Lastly, Calabro was given a particularly lucrative soldier named Ralph Scopo Jr. Aside from being a loanshark and gambling proprietor with extensive ties to both the Gambino and Genovese borgatas, Scopo controlled Local 6A of the Cement and Concrete Workers' Union. And even when he did favor a site to meet with associates, like the Our Lady of Lourdes Church, hard-to-decipher codewords and hand signals (like the ones used when he passed down the Cutolo contract) would prevent feds from gathering worthwhile bugs. 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. 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. Tommy Shots was a high-ranking member of the notorious Colombo crime family, an organization that has plagued New York City since the 1920s. A series of family snapshots showing an alleged Colombo mob boss interacting with members of his crime family have taken center stage in the case against Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli. A reputed Mafia boss won't be trading his prison stripes for a pinstripe suit on his daughter's wedding day. Even as he continued to hold induction ceremonies, attend mobbed-up weddings and hang out at connected clubs, he privately called his two closest pals - Dino Calabro and Joe Competiello - to a potentially life-changing meeting. 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. Soon enough, Dino moved him and his family from Bensonhurst to a Farmingdale property adjacent to Tommys, and made his portly mentor the "godfather" of his children. But for Gioeli and Co., it had to be business as usual. Ennab, 19, a stickup artist. He's totally low-rent.". As well as chatting up a storm about his own mob activities, Sonny also unknowingly pegged Tommy Gioeli as the Colombo family's head, giving the feds ammunition for their own indictment in the works, courtesy of Anthony Basile. So wild that a former nun ended up dead in the ensuing carnage. By the summer of 2002, Big Dino Calabro was also an official capo, thanks to his relationship with Tommy Shots. At a Chase Bank in Farmingdale, near Route 110, Calabro, Competiello and Greaves canceled their plan to steal the deposit box since there were always too many people around. Descriptions of Tommy's role in the family from Bonanno underboss Sal Vitale show that Gioeli had all the trappings of a 'street boss' during the 1990s - he was the eyes and ears on the street of whomever was in charge at the time, and held all the weight of a boss in meetings with other families (Cacace quote from 2000; "If you need to see me, tell Tommy. The induction of Competiello and the Saracino Brothers took place at a residence on West 6th St., Gravesend, according to mob researcher JD. Gioeli nixed the idea - "Absolutely not," he said. In fact, Tommy Gioeli even rented out a warehouse in Long Island to store hot goods that came from swiped trailers, such as one stolen from the Macy's Long Island parking lot at Massapequa Mall. Tommy Gioeli was the powerful acting boss of the Colombo family from 2003-2008, and helped rebuild the family through the 21st century. The wiseguys conducted surveillance on the Chinaman's property, but the plot never came to fruition. "You're gonna have to plea out? FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. Gioeli and his crew were able to last years avoiding arrest, even after police raided Dino Saracino's apartment on March 4, 2005, seizing nine illegal guns. A very merry Christmas, the accompanying message read. Ingratiating himself with his new pal, Calabro soon buddied up to Greaves friends. The feds also got their hands on a nifty little phone book with the listed names and numbers of all of Gioeli's underworld associates. ", For the time being, Tommy Gioeli's composure and presentation seemed to work, at least for Little Dino Saracino. Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. Dennis officially introduced Reynold to Tommy Shots by placing their hands in his and saying; "Tommy, this is Reynald Maragni amigo nostro Colombo family. He was given his own crew, according to a report by JD, which consisted of the five members;1. LIPSTICK MAGAZINE - Live In NYC (Live) Hard Rock. He'd previously been sent on a mission to crack the face of a boyfriend who had "bothered" another Gioeli daughter. He eschewed fancy suits and cars and, as one Daily News law enforcement source put it in June 2008; "He's not a flashy guy. Along with the foreboding subpoenas which struck enough fear into Gioeli to spur him to consider leaving "the life," the feds were also strengthening their case behind the scenes. Of special interest to the FBI was Basiles knowledge about crimes committed by Dino Calabro, Tommys right-hand-man, during his hoodlum years during the 1980s and 1990s. His success in the industry earned Gioeli the moniker "Tommy Machines. But despite his decade-long friendship withJoJoRusso, Tommy would still have to "make his bones" if he wanted to be inducted into the Colombo crime family. "Oh, it's bad then, huh D?" Possibly Frank Melia Jr., 54, who was also a Long Island-based capo during the 1990s. [2], In 1997, Gioeli allegedly participated in the murder of Ralph Dols, a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer. By 2005, Mikey and his brother Anthony' Ants' Souza, ran a sprawling organization in Staten Island with ties to Albanian organized crime. I'm going to hell, said Gioeli to a fellow gangster after accidentally slaying a nun according to court documents. 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. He had been at the top of the Colombo crime family since the early 1990s and, by all accounts, had done a pretty good job. The first and only alleged Mafia boss to maintain a blog is now on trial in Brooklyn federal court. The so-called "good brother," Seb was maintaining an air of legitimacy while living in Los Angeles, California. He would frequently stop when he drove and take bizarre routes to seemingly mundane locations. The charges against 59-year-old Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli include six murders, among them . If I repeat anything that happens in here, I should die and burn in hell, Calabro recalled. Terrible, he said. With these three loosely connected facts, the feds fleshed out an incorrect analysis of what happened to Cutolo's body. They then drew guns and handcuffed the store's owners, Alexandra Hatzis, 56, and her son Gus, 25. Tommy Gioeli was running a Colombo crew of his own. Interestingly enough, even though Miciotta himself admitted he "hated" Gioeli, he didn't name him or Carna as being in the crash car. Judgement day for Gioeli was 6:00am on June 4, 2008, when a seventeen-count indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court charging the following mobsters with racketeering crimes: Acting Boss Thomas 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli, 55, who was charged with the 1992 double murders of John Minerva and Michael Imbergamo, and the 1991 murder of Frank 'Chestnut' Marasa. Underboss John 'Sonny' Franzese, 89, charged with a hefty list of loansharking and extortion charges stemming from the taped conversations he had from 2004-2007 with son his John Franzese Jr. and Gaetano 'Guy' Fatato. Capo Dino Calabro, 41, also charged with the Minerva/Imbergamo hits, the Marasa hit, and the accidental 1992 murder of Carlos Pagan he witnessed with turncoat Bonanno associate Anthony Basile. Acting Capo and Franzese's nephew Michael Catapano, 42, charged with shaking down Long Island establishments, growing cannabis, and selling cocaine. Unlike Sonny, whose rackets extended from card games in Long Island to strip joint shakedowns in Manhattan, Gioeli downplayed his criminal prowess. [5] Gioeli's position included meeting with Carmine Persico and conveying messages to family leaders such as Vincent and Benny Aloi, John Franzese and John DeRoss. The next meeting they had was when Tommy Gioeli flew down to the Sunshine State shortly after the Christmas holidays to escape the grueling New York winter. What Gioeli didn't know at that time was that the tape-recorded assault was also enough to cause acting capo Paulie Bevacqua to began snitching, according to a Gang Land article from December 1, 2011. "What was I going to do in my 40s?" "How am I going to go 17 years without girls? 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. There was simply too much heat on Calabro and Co. since on May 30, 2000, federal agents and NYPD detectives began looking for the remains of Carmine Gargano. 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. A month later, the charges got more serious when he and Jackie DeRoss were busted for various union-related crimes. Hey, we didn't allow too many people in our lives; we really didn't," Dino noted. They had received a tip that a Coney Island. But that, as well as the Lombardo hit, never came to fruition. Tommy "Machines" Gioeli extorted money out of various card game operators all over the city. But this was a mere formality, and Caves was still aligned mainly to Tommy Machines and Big Dino. Starting back in the 1990s, Tommy also maintained a considerable array of Joker-Poker machines in both Brooklyn and Long Island. To go after this old man for crimes he may or may not have committed Gioeli says. In the late 1980s, Gioeli started working for capo Vittorio "Vic" Orena, leader of the Colombo Brooklyn faction and one of the family's top earners. Dino was enamored by the respected and feared mobsters that showed up at the social club to confer with the elder Scarpa, whose ominous underworld nicknames included the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter. In Brooklyn Federal Court almost thirty years later, Big Dino testified about his first impressions;"I seen older guys with dress suits on and cars and jewelry in the middle of the day. That, Calabro said, was (j)ust what I wanted to do. They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who flip to help federal investigators. He was able to post via his blog a cyber Christmas card featuring a photo of his four daughters when they were youngsters. 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. FBI surveillance of Tommy Gioeli and Paul Bevacqua from April 4, 2001. 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. However, Gioeli maintains his innocence and no charges in the Zuraw killing have been filed against him. Vincent 'Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro, 66, an influential Brooklyn-based soldier who was a good pal of Persico faction acting boss Joe Tomasello during the war. Peraino Sr. was hit in the buttocks, but he survived for another sixteen years. When Dave again asked if it was "that bad," Saracino seemed nonchalant. In fact, in 1991, Little Dino and Joey Caves stuck up a Brooklyn candy store and scored a pitiful $250, which they dutifully split among themselves and Big Dino. Gioeli certainly has a way with words. 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. 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. Persico ordered Cutolo to meet him in a park in Brooklyn. Imbergamo was a friend of Minerva's who was not involved in organized crime. After the 2004 conviction of acting boss Cacace, Gioeli was promoted to "Street boss", with his protg Paul Bevacqua as acting capo. 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. Terrible, he said. Bloody shootouts between the two factions in 1991 resulted in murders of prominent Orena supporters. In 2004, according to the complaint, Calabro met the youngest Scopo when his father brought him along to his regular get-together with Calabro at a "bagel store on Route 109 on West Babylon" to hash out the money that the pair had made in the union." 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. But when Little Dino, the lookout, spotted a security guard stumble onto the scene, the plan was ruined, and they hastily aborted. The dig saw the Gioeli crew lay low as the family was reeling from continuing federal indictments. "I'm saying, D, it's that bad?" 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. Gioeli also bestowed upon Maragni the honor of having an entire crew set up for him after the new soldier had obviously made a great impression on the acting boss. The trio kicked in drywall to enter the building and started using a blowtorch to open a bank's safe. 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. details 1 Copyright 2021 The Archive. 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. Coffee boys could make $1000 a week before the mob showed up and charged them $250 weekly for the job privilege. In this June, 4, 2008 photo, reputed acting boss of the Colombo crime family Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli is led by FBI agents from Federal Plaza for arraignment in Manhattan. "I wanted what he had, Calabro later testified about Gioeli. Le second groupe belge du week-end, originaire de Gand, compte en son sein deux vieilles connaissances de la scne indie, Stef Heeren et Kwinten Mordijck, respectivement chanteur-guitariste et claviriste de Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat.Pour ce projet hors des sentiers battus, ils se sont associs l'Iranien Saif Al-Qaissy pour former un trio electro-exprimental aux contours orientaux. 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. Basciano agreed that Franzese didn't have long before ending up back behind bars; "You're right, he's gonna be in here." Prosecutors are opposing Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli's request for a prison furlough to attend his . But on this pleasant Spring morning, Tommy wasnt there to mull over Bible verses. Gary Gugliaro, 45, a bus union executive and the son of Vinny Sicilian.Down in Florida, Gioeli had one more addition to his crew;1. Nevertheless, his wedding was attended by a startling amount of mob heavies, some of whom had never even met the groom before. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. The 38-year-old man had entered the . . But she met a tragic end that day when bullets intended for the elder Peraino hit her, killing her instantly. By John Marzulli, Daily News. The defenseand you will never believe thissays they were stolen. The above is a quote attributed to Colombo Crime Family leader Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli. That's because, after failing to murder the father-and-son pornography tycoons initially, the hit team was forced to pursue them in a random Gravesend property on Lake Street. 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." Even his phone was immune from court-authorized wiretaps, since Tommy got his cellphones made special from a mob associated telecommunications company. Said the news; "When a union monitor challenged Local 6A's practice of designating the same members as coffee boys, the union claimed only laborers with "the necessary experience" were qualified for the job. Tommy Gioeli warned his young cousin about Greg Scarpa. 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." In fact, despite his low-key persona, the acting boss gave the murder contract of Lombardo to his acting capo, Paulie Bevacqua. Saracino made sure that everything Gordon sent through was vetted to protect Little Dino against incrimination. And I'll take it with a fucking smile," he noted, keeping his spirits up. Colombo Crime Family / Dino Calabro / John Franzese / Thomas Gioeli, Copyright var creditsyear = new Date();document.write(creditsyear.getFullYear()); 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. 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