Greg Scarpa, by Balsamo Mooring

The Rise And Fall Of A Mafia Killer. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the WZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich, a
mob killer nicknamed the Grim Reaper. He's the subject of
a biography called Greg Scarpa, The Rise and Fall of
a Mafia Killer. It offers up an untold story of
how one sociopathic killer not only took lives, but took
advantage of the trust of not only his mafia brethren,
but the FBI when Scarpa became a paid FBI informant.

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The book showcases his career moving up the line through
the Colombo crime family as their most feared killer. A
stark look at how these crime families operate and how
Scarpa turned on most everyone except for his children and
was ultimately stopped not by the law or fellow coppos,
but by the disease known as AIDS, acquired during a
blood transfusion from a fellow mobster. An intense look at

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a sociopathic criminal and the mob family that made him.
Greg Scarpa, The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Killer
by Balsamo Mooring. And that's the book Club. WZ Boston's
news radio