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" Freddy was extremely mild mannered. Every morning (we) would pick up the three of them for trial (Freddy and Ty Geas, and Arthur Nigro).... I always patted down and shackled Freddy. He always walked out of the cell first, followed by Ty, and Nigro lagging behind last. They walked out in the same order every day for four months. That stuck in my mind because I knew Nigro was a “boss” but to me, Freddy seemed to take on that role ." That was one of the things we learned during a recent chat with a former deputy marshal who spent considerable time on the job getting to know numerous members and associates of organized crime in New York, including former Genovese family acting boss Arthur Nigro and brothers Ty and Freddy Geas, both former members of the Genovese family's Springfield Crew.  Fotios, left, and brother Ty, who got life sentences for the slaying of mob boss Big Al Bruno. Freddy Geas also is the number one suspect in the brutal murder of James (Whitey) Bulger , ...

By Andrew Machin “It is very difficult to know the names of the perpetrators [of a murder]. It is very easy to know the hand… from whom [the order] comes… the instigator. But the names of the perpetrators are very difficult to know in the underworld circles”. Raffaele Moscato, government witness, former high-ranking member (rank of Vangelo, transl. Gospel) and killer of the Locale of Piscopio, 2016. It was April 24, 2014, on a Thursday, and it was broad daylight (2 pm). Carmine Verduci ( above ) was alone in a parking lot just outside a café, the Regina Sports Café, in an industrial and retail plaza of Woodbridge (community in the City of Vaughan, north of Toronto). Evidently, he was tailed since, at that very moment, he was approached by a single gunman who shot him seven times, killing him. Then the shooter walked away. A short distance away, he reached a car where an accomplice was waiting for him behind the wheel. Then the car disappeared leaving no traces. The police, alerted by...

"I told him that we knew. We found out exactly what he did (and) why he did it... " --Sammy The Bull on Louie Milito In one of the more (darkly) humorous installments in this otherwise grim series, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano testifies about disarming and setting up Liborio (Louie) Milito to be killed by telling him the falsehood that “we were going to kill Johnny Gammarano, that was basically our plan.” Gambino mobster Louie Milito was decidedly unlucky. Why tell Milito that? For one thing, he would believe it ---  because he knew that John Gotti hated Johnny Gammarano . As Gravano said, “John was always talking, bad-mouthing Johnny Gammarano , talking about him, and Louie believed it right away, that he was going to be killed .” What got Louie in trouble in the first place was spectacularly bad timing. He apparently had cozied up to Tommy Bilotti and Paul Castellano at the worst possible moment -- right before John Gotti killed the both of them. (Milito himself miss...

If Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro's compassionate release motion were granted, a crew of violent, prison-hardened felons—led by two Carbonaro relatives—would be ready to follow the longtime Gambino soldier's orders, sources tell Cosa Nostra News . They also discussed how some on the street view Sammy the Bull's recent podcast. Gravano crew, from left: Ed Garafola, Lou Vallario, Joe D’Angelo, Frankie Flapp, Huck Carbonaro, who came up in Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano's Brooklyn crew, has been seeking to get a judge to put an early cap on his 70-year sentence. He was convicted in 2003, and his lawyers are using chronology to Huck's benefit, arguing that so much time has passed ("decades of distance between" him and the mob) that he has transformed himself into a new person who is not a violent criminal with a Gambino button. Today, Huck "is a simple convict doing his time, trying to improve himself and attempting to maintain relationships with his large, ...