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It looks like ex-Colombo associate John Pappa still might break the record for serving one of the longest prison sentences in US criminal history. Pappa was part of the hit team that rubbed out John Gotti ally Joseph Scopo. Pappa, who committed four murders at the age of 19 and was convicted and sentenced to multiple life sentences, filed a motion for compassionate release on December 19, 2022.  Pappa asked the Court to grant him a sentence reduction under Section 3582(c)(1)(A) based on what he argued were "extraordinary and compelling circumstances": -- his upbringing and youth at the time he committed the crimes of conviction; -- the fact that a life sentence in his case will be unusually long given his young age at the time of his convictions, which, in turn, "creates a sentencing disparity" when compared to "nationwide sentencing practices for those convicted of murder in federal court"; -- the sentencing court's inability to consider the mitigatin...

Bonanno big shots John (Johnny Joe) Spirito and Ernie Aiello, among others, were relieved of their cash in a robbery of a Bonanno family social club in the Bronx on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, as per blog and podcast reports. Mikey Nose and his pearly whites. We contacted our own Bonanno family-linked sources about the robbery to see what we could find out — only to hear that the robbery never happened. “It’s a complete bullshit story,” one of the sources said, laughing. (These guys seemed to be well aware of the social club robbery story, which tells us they must keep up with online mob news, at least as much as we do.) According to The Gangster Report , tens of thousands of dollars in tribute was stolen in the robbery, cash that had been destined for the pockets of Bonanno boss Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso . GR also noted that, as per three different sources, Johnny Joe’s son, John (Johnny Boy) Spirito, Jr. also was a victim of the stick-up. Balderdash, said our sources, one ...

Ralph F. DeLeo, 82, who was released on parole last year after spending more than a decade in prison for crimes committed while serving as the street boss of the Colombo crime family, was arrested yesterday, according to court documents filed in Massachusetts. Ralph DeLeo Why he was arrested is not something we know, though we may learn about it later today. DeLeo appeared yesterday afternoon for a revocation hearing before Massachusetts Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson and has a detention hearing at 2:30 p.m. today. The FBI ended DeLeo’s yearlong reign as Colombo street boss when they pinched him on a drug rap in Little Rock, Arkansas, in December 2009. In 2012, he was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release (and a $50,000 fine—which alone would be enough to make us want to gargle Drano). DeLeo earlier that year had pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. DeLeo—a veteran bank rob...

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