Feds Line Up Tough One-Two Punch For Colombo Top Guns
February 3, 2010 by The Boss · 4 Comments
The feds have just lined up a tough one-two punch against two top Colombo family mobsters awaiting trial for six mob murders, Gang Land has learned. The mob hits include the 1997 execution slaying of New York City police officer Ralph Dols.
Sources say prosecutors plan to unleash two new turncoats against family “street boss” Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli and consigliere Joel (Joe Waverly) Cacace later this year. Charged 13 months ago with murders that qualify for capital punishment, Gioeli, 57, and Cacace, 68, are still sweating out a final decision by the feds on the death penalty issue.
One of the new federal songbirds is capo Dino (Big Dino) Calabro, who was a triggerman in Dols’s killing and who has been rumored for months to have been seeking a deal. The other new recruit to Team America is Frank (Frankie Blue Eyes) Sparaco, a longtime pal of jailed-for-life acting boss Alphonse Persico. Gang Land’s sources say Sparaco’s decision to flip shocked the already staggered crime family.
Sparaco was arrested back in 1993 along with capo Theodore Persico – brother of official family boss Carmine and Alphonse’s uncle. Sparaco was hit with murder conspiracy charges stemming from a bloody two-year-long family feud that left 12 dead.
Frankie Blue Eyes was also fingered by turncoats for the January 1992 slaying of Michael Devine, a bar-owner who had been dating Allie Perisco’s then-estranged wife Teresa. Sparaco was never charged with that murder, but court documents say he shot Devine to death as the bar owner drove his Nissan Pathfinder into his Staten Island garage where the gunman then fired several coup de grace bullets into the dead man’s groin. The hit was allegedly ordered from behind bars by Allie Persico, who was then near the end of a 12-year-prison stretch for racketeering.
The Persicos fought their charges. But Frankie Blue Eyes quickly agreed to plead guilty to murder conspiracy, and accept “coverage” that would preclude the feds from prosecuting him for the Devine slaying, and take 24 years in prison.
Read the rest over on this Article over at theĀ Huffington Post
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Dino and Frank,
sad days
Sorry I didn’t think of the Dino and Frank thing first. Congrats to Nicky Gallo for a quick mind. And, yes, it’s particularly sad for me, and was the story I referred to in my posting, “Why So Many Rats,” here on Mafia Today.
Funny too Sonny, that guy in the picture looks like Dino, he must have done a photo shoot during his Federal Cooperation sit-down
Well, Family Feud is actually a classic game that traces back wayback in the 80’s i guess. It is a nice game anyway.`~*