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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...

 John Pappa, a wannabe wiseguy with the tough Colombo family, was convicted of racketeering, drug dealing, and four murders, one of which was the 12th and final killing of the Colombo family war . John Pappa looking to be in the pink of health. The other three make this a horror story. They each met their end for getting between the vicious Pappa and what he believed was his rightful street credit -- which he'd been counting on to get him his button. He got slammed with prison instead. The judge sentenced the would-be wiseguy to life in prison -- and due to Pappa's young age, he has the dubious distinction of potentially serving one of the longest sentences in U.S. criminal history. Pappa, at the ripe old age of 22, was nabbed at a wedding rehearsal on Staten Island in 1997. (He had murdered the brother of the man getting married, along with two others.) Pappa believed the trio had been seeking to steal "street cred" for killing one of the Colombo crime ...