September 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Today we delve into Colombo mobster and eventual government informant Joseph "Joey Caves" Competiello. In the first 15 minutes or so, we discuss some Mob news including the recent death of Patriarca boss Carmen DiNunzio, as well as a recent arrest at the San Gennaro Feast.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to the sit Down, a Mafia history podcast. Here's
your host, Jeff Nado. What's up everybody, and welcome in
to another edition of the sit Down. I am your host,
Jeff Nayd. This is episode two hundred and twenty nine
of the podcast. As always, if you're enjoying what we're doing,
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please make sure you leave us a five star rating
and a review. I hope everybody's having a great week.
Uh it is uh here in middle of September, getting
closer and closer to fall. Lot going on right now
in my world, but we're here, get another show, another
shit Down. Today we got some news to get into.
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We had a death to report, pretty big one in
the American Mafia. I also want to talk about an
arrest rays at the San Gennaro Feast, which shows us
that the Mob is still around, at least at San Gennaro.
We know the Mob is still around in general. I've
talked kind of widely about how the mob is still
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making money. There's still five families, you know, all that
sort of thing. But the San Gennaro Feast is still
an option for them in terms of making money, and
that was shown recently. We're also going to talk today
about a mob informant that maybe you've not heard of. Obviously,
we've heard of so many and we've done shows on
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so many. However, today's you may not have heard of.
We're going to talk about a Colombo mob informant called
Joey Caves Compotello. Before we do that, though, I do
want to get into some news. We had a death
that came over the wire last night September twenty first,
twenty twenty five. According to sources that I have, Boston
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mobster Carmen Cheeseman Dnunzio has died at the age of
sixty eight. Now this is not just a mob guy.
I mean, Carmen d'anunzio was the boss of the patriarch
of crime family for years. This is a guy who
look if you know who he is, I mean he's
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a very rotund, large individual. It was said that Danunzio
weighed over four hundred and fifty pounds. He's a big guy.
Had a lot of health issues. I had heard that
he was dealing with some health problems For a while. Dnunzio,
alongside his brother Anthony, came up in Boston. Their East
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Boston guys, but for years they were under Jerry Angulo,
who was the boss at the patriarch of Crime Family
for a while. Definitely a high ranking individual. He got
his name due to the fact that he had a
cheese shop called Fresh Cheese, which was on Endicott Street
in the North End, right near where Angelo and everybody
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held court. An interesting guy, really, I mean, we don't
hear much about the patriarch or Crime Family anymore, but
this is a guy who really, throughout the last twenty
or so years, had been bossed for various points of time.
He took over once Peter Lamoni died, so it's been
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about ten years a little bit more than that. Really,
you have to really go back to, like the too
that late two thousands when it was rumored that he
was the boss of the Patriarchal Family. He would eventually
go away though, and his brother Anthony would become acting boss.
There's been rumors that he retained control again and then
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kind of due to health concerns, kind of stepped down
a little bit. I think Robert Carraza has kind of
been your acting boss for a while. But Denunzio has
done a lot of time. He was in prison at
one point, he got six years for trying to bribe
an FBI agent as part of a kind of an
extortion racket that he was attempting to do in the
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construction industry. He got out of prison, I want to say,
around twenty seventeen, and I kind of went right back
to it. I have talked to people that knude under
They said he was a real nice guy. Everybody, you know,
very few people had anything bad to say about him.
His brother actually, when he was boss, he was caught
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on wiretap discussing that. You know, I get to watch
you down on the ground, just you know, these are
guys that there were mob guys. They did what they
had to do to survive, and you know that's who
they were. But you know, Dununzio, I don't think his
death comes at any great shock to people that follow
mob stuff, just due to the fact that, you know,
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he has had medical problems. He is a you know,
a large guy. You know obviously, you know when you're overweight,
you have to deal with complications occasionally from that. So
it's unclear how he died, But my guess is it's
just natural causes. So we'll have to see. But Carma
d Nunzio, bosson the Patrick crime family, dead at the
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age of sixty eight. There has been rumors, at least
been asked to me, you know what is left of Boston,
And to be quite honest, not a lot. I mean
when you really look around the country, I think you
really have to ask yourself, really outside of New York,
you know, can you call what these families are? Can
you call them mob families anymore? You know, is there
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a distinct hierarchy? Are there distinct kind of people in control?
You know, there have been people including I know, like
Mikey Scars Dee Leonardo had mentioned that in a video
that even back in the two thousands he didn't really
believe that Boston was really that active. So I think
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you really have to ask yourself, you know, do you
consider people that are made guy on the street and
maybe doing one or two things, Is that a mob family?
I think that's a big question in a lot of cities,
you know, whether it be Chicago or Detroit or Boston.
I think you can obviously say that in Buffalo there
is a family. I'm not going to tell you that
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there's no family in Chicago Detroit, but they're definitely very small. Now,
you know, a lot of the organization is older, and
I think in probably ten or so years, I don't
think any of these cities will really have much more
than a few guys in them. Even in Philadelphia. I mean,
when we talk about the mafia, what exactly are they doing?
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You know, do you consider people that have legitimate businesses
that at one point were regarded as mobsters. I will
tell you this, I know in Philadelphia personally that if
you need a loan or you want to bet with
a bookmaker, most of those people are independent pizzeria owners.
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They're family men that they're not mob guys. Right, And
this is not just now. I remember many years ago,
you know, when I was younger and I needed loans,
like I take a thousand, two thousand loan, I wasn't
getting them from like mob guys per se. You're getting
them from you know, guys that live up your street that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know, maybe are our cabinet makers or or or
they have some sort of construction company or brick layers
or something, you know, and they have you know, five
or ten customers, and they give small.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Loans out and they make a little money on the
side due to Jews. You're not getting them from mob guys.
It's just not happening. And I know that personally because
I've done that. I've gotten loans when I was younger
from guys in Philly. They were not mob guys. So
I'm not going to tell you that there's no family
in you know, these areas, but they're obviously significantly smaller,
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and I think Boston is a prime example of that.
Speaking of the mob, there was something that I do
know that happened at the San Gennaro feast. This has
not been big news just because there's really nobody reporting
on this kind of stuff anymore. But from what I understand,
a made member of the Gambino crime family, a man
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called William Billy Scotto, was arrested at San Gennaro on
the tenth of September, and from what I understand, it
had something to do with some sort of dispute he
got into with a vendor at San Gennaro. This happened
in the area of Maulbury and Canal Street as far
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as I know, and he was given a desk ticket
and scheduled to appear on September twenty ninth to learn
more about it at that point. Scotto has been around
a while. He kind of started moving around in the nineties.
He was jammed up on extortion in the early two
thousands mid two thousands from extortions that he committed in
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the nineties as a associate of the Games. He was
shaking down a brokerage firm alongside Johnny Gamerano, who was
a longtime Gambino guy. He was then hit with a
couple more extortions in the two thousands of the trucking
industry construction Big extortion Guy, Big Loan Shark. He was
under Danny Marino for a while. I know he was
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under Mikey Scars at one point, and then he was
given a button and was jammed up. On Mob Takedown
Day in two thousand and eight, Scatto was actually trying
to shake down a person called Joe Valaro, who was
actually a government informant. Vlara was a trucking company owner
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and I know MOB guys were kind of clashing with
him over At one point there was a thought about
putting a NASCAR track on Staten Island, and they were
supposed to be going to handle a lot of the
dirt and fill operations. The trucking companies, and there was
a lot of beefs with mob guys and Valaro, who
eventually he flipped. Scotto eventually did a couple of years
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he got out. His name has popped up in some
things as far as like personal things. As far as
I know, he was sitting down for his nephew who
was in a beef with the Columbo family. From what
I understand, mister Scotto has a nephew, Michael, who's in
his thirties or early forties, and he is in a
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relationship with a high ranking Colombo crime family member's daughter.
And I guess he was doing some things he wasn't
supposed to be doing and he was vilified over it,
and his uncle had to sit down for him. So, yeah,
Billy Scotto's name pops up. It's a Brooklyn guy. He
lives in Staten Island. Nobody's say anything good about him.
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When I asked around on him. I asked a few
people that knew Scotto directly. They did not speak highly
of him. Said, he's never been in a fistfight in
his life, but he acts like a tough guy all
the time. Again, not my words, those are those are
words that people that knew him told me that said,
I mean, there might be people that that I haven't
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spoken to, that know him, that say he's a good guy.
I really don't know. I don't know the man. But
he was arrested at San Gennaro. There are rumors that
he has not been back to San Gennaro since this
little stunt, So I guess we'll have to see what
goes on here on the ten or on the twenty ninth.
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My apologies about a week from today. I think actually
a week from today. So yeah, all right, let's get
into our biography portion of the show. Today, we're going
to talk about a person called Joseph Compotello. Compitello is
probably on the short list of the most dangerous people
ever associated with the mafia that cooperated. I put him
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on the level of Junior Pagan some of the other
pretty dangerous people we talked about. Caves is still feared today.
It's that simple. He is a very vicious individual. So
we're gonna talk about him his connection to Tommy Gioelli,
Dino Colabro. This is a guy that committed multiple murders
on behalf of the Columbo crime family. So let's get
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into it. Let's talk about Joseph Comptello on the Sit
Down Down. Joseph Compiatello was born in nineteen seventy one
in Brooklyn, New York. At one point he would live
in the area of seventy third Street and twenty first
Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Now we do know that seventy
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fifth Street and twentieth Avenue is not far away, and
Joey Caves was a mainstay on that block for years
growing up. It was said that Joey Cave's father, Angelo,
actually owned a landscaping company called Angelo Compiateello Landscaping and
down the road. Compiotello's involved and in the streets and
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in the mafia were a problem for his father. He
wasn't able to get certain licensure be involved in certain
unions because they're going to look into your family. And
his son was a mobster. Now it was said by
his teens. According to city court documents, Compiotello would serve
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time in prison, most notably on Rockers Island for various
assault cases that he caught in the early nineties. Now,
as I said, compia Tello was a mainstay in and
around seventy fifth and twentieth Avenues in Benzner's and the
kids on that block included Dino Collabra. They were involved
in everything from stealing cars to committing robberies. Copiateello actually
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had a chop shop. He would steal cars, chop them
down and sell them for parts in Brooklyn, and his
violent ways started very early, according to what we know,
in the early nineties, Joseph Compiateello was involved in murdering
a person called Joseph Mitchio. According to what we know,
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Mitchio was a subordinate of mister Compiatello, but started to
get involved in his own things, started stealing cars from
a restaurant that was belonging to the Gambino crime family.
People got tired of Mitchio and Copiateelo allegedly shot him
multiple times in the head and pushed him out of
a vehicle in Brooklyn. So that was the first time
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that we know that Joseph compi Tello committed a murder.
Now we would find throughout his time in the mafia,
mister Compiateello was involved in various murders and he would
talk about them. Eventually. Compiateello, as well as Collabra and
other members of the Bay Parkway Boys would become affiliated
with members of the Columbo crime fan they'd become under
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the control of longtime Columbo member Thomas Tommy shots Joeli No.
We've done a video on Joeli as well. He was
kind of the guy behind all these guys. He was
the mentor of all these people. He was the director
of all these people, and he was the captain of
all of these people. We also know that people in
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this group, particularly Dino Calabro, Joey Caves and Dino Saracino,
were quite close. They were boyhood friends. They had been
friends for years, and these are people that were very
violent individuals. Now. Joey Caves and both Dino Callaboro as
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well discussed that in the early nineties they were called
upon by Tommy Shotts to do what they had to
do in the Colombo War. According to various testimonies, they
would testify that Jioeli said he needed all of them,
including Collabro, Richie, Dino and Joey whenever he was around,
to drive him around and drive around with guns. They
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would testify that our orders were to shoot and kill
on site if we saw any members of the opposed
in faction. During the Clumbo War and said that Joeli
said that he would point them out to them. Colabero
also testified, as well as copy Tello, that he and
others drove around social clubs, homes, businesses with guns looking
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for VIC Arena members, specifically testifying that they searched directly
around the Avenue En Cafe to locate Joey Scopo, a
high ranking Arena Faction member. Compiotello and Collaboro would also
testify that Dino Saracino was involved in an attempt to
locate and kill an Arena Faction member known as Bobo.
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We will know down the road that that was Bobo Malpizo.
The jury would properly draw the inference that if Sarasino
was looking for Arena Faction members, he was looking for
them for the purpose of shooting to kill, as we
know Tommy Joeli ordered. Now we do know that both Competello, Collaboro,
and also Gioeli were not only burglars and robbers, but
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they were also loan sharks, and Joelie would instruct both
Collabro and Compiateello to collect loan shark decks that loan
shark debts. At one point, Compio Tello would state that
he was going after a person called Peter Risk that
owed money and that if he didn't give up the
money to quote break his face off. According to Collabro,
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the Collabora would down the Road state that Saracino told
Collabra that Saracino had searched for Peter Risk and that
Sarasino and Compiateello quote stabbed him. Compiotello would similarly testify
that he and Saracino chased down Peter Risk and stabbed
him while asking Risk why he had not called Collabra
back in regards to a debt that he owed them.
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So copia Tello was a very important enforcer, not only
to beat up and stab loan Shark debtors, but also
to kill in Most people that I've talked to about
compia Tello, they would tell me that he had those
deep dark eyes, eyes that just are killer eyes. He
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was a nutcase, many people would tell me. And he
was very good with his hands. He could beat people up,
he could use a gun. He was very helpful to
people like Tommy Shotts, and this is why Tommy shots
down the Road would have a very fierce reputation. When
somebody needed to go. In the late nineties early two thousands,
the Joelie Crew was called upon. Here all the guys
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can be seen at the wedding of Joseph Compiotello's sister
on the far left, Dino Calabro, then Joey Caves, Dino
Saracino in the blue, and then Tommy Shots to the
far right. Now, during the Columba War, it was said
that Joey Caves participated in the June nineteen ninety one
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murder of a man called Frank Chesnut Marassa. Now we
don't have photos obviously of Joseph Mitchell or for a
person called Richard Greaves, who we'll talk about. Some of
these guys don't have photos, but Chesnut Marasso was killed
in ninety one, and down the road compy Tello was
given that murder on his docket. One of the most
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depraved murders that mister compy Tello was involved in was
in the nineteen ninety four murder of a man called
Carmine Gargano. Now, as far as we know, Carmon Gargano
it was said by some was a mob associate, And
I'm not saying he was. I'm only stating what certain
people say. All as far as we know is his
family would say that he was not connected to the
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mob and was actually a college student at Pace University.
It was said that, according to Dino Calabro, Joseph Compi
Tello shot mister Gargano multiple times in a garage that
he owned. I'm going to get into some of the
other things that Dino Calabra's stated about the murder of
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mister Gargano. He would state that Compioitello would tell him
as to why he killed Gargano. Quote compy Tello, I
don't know. I just felt like it. I was upset.
The Computello would then state to Callabra, what do I
do with the body? Dino would state, I don't care
what you do with the body. Throw him out of
a car, bury him, just get rid of him. That
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was also stated that Competello would tell Collabra that once
he shot mister Gargano, he was a big kid and
he didn't go down, to which Compi Tello stated he
would then beat him multiple times with a sledgehammer, ultimately
killing him. Carmi Gargano's body and remains were missing four
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years and he was reported missing four years by his family.
These are some very violent, very depraved murders. They would
then take Gargano and, according to compy Tello, him in
a shallow grave. In nineteen ninety five, the cohorts would
take part in murdering a person called Richard Greaves, who
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was actually a member of the crew. He was a
mob associated. He was a person who cannot be made
due to the fact that he wasn't fully Italian. But
he was there with all the guys in twentieth Avenue.
He was there taking part in murders. He was taking
part in robberies. Eventually, though, Richard Greaves decided that he
had a change of heart and did not want to
be a part of the mob anymore, to which this
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group decided, well, he needed to go. He knew too much,
to which he was whacked out, supposedly in a house
belonging to Joseph Compiaatello's family. It's alleged after the fact,
according to what we know, Compiatello and Sebastian Saracino testified
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that Saracino shot Richard Greaves with a thirty eight caliber
gun in the presence of Tommy Shotsgioueli They would then
testify both Sarah Rasino in copy of Tello that they
cleaned up the murder scene and took Greaves's body and
buried it in a shallow grave and took his jeet
to a location near the Arizona Bridge. It was said
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later that copy Tello would then begin having sex with
Richard Greaves's girlfriend. That's what they do. They take you out,
then they start banging your girlfriend. That's the life. Copy
Tello was then involved in a very high piece of work,
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profile piece of work, allegedly on behalf of a man
called Joel Joe Waverley. Cacase now Cacase down the road
would beat this murder, though a lot of the things
involved in it just seemed too good to be true.
In nineteen ninety seven, a New York City police officer
by the name of Ralph Doles was shot late on
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a Friday night in nineteen ninety seven. The two shooters
that night were said to be Dino Calabro and Little
Dino Saracino, Colabo's cousin that this was given on orders
of Tommy Shotts, on behalf of Joel Waverley, and that
Calabra was the shooter. Now the wheelman in this murder
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was said to be Joseph compia Tello. So all of
these people just took part in the murder of a cop, which, again,
unless you are a drug cartel, is highly off limits.
The compia Tello, Calabra, and Saracino would all state that
they did not know that mister Doles was a cop.
They were told that Doles was a quote Mexican who
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worked at a social club. We would find out down
the road that Ralph Doles was married to the former
wife of Joel Waverley. Case seems a bit random, doesn't it.
Now down the road, Case would somehow beat to beat
the rap in this murder, but Doles was still just
as dead. Very sad case involving one of the NYP finest.
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Then the most high profile murder that mister compio Tello
and his cohorts would take part of would begin. In
nineteen ninety nine, the Columbo crime family realized they had
a real problem on their hands in terms of leadership.
Aliboy Persco, the boss is in prison, Jackie de Ross
at number three had people breathing down his neck, and
the underboss at the time they believed while Bill Cottolo
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was a major threat and he was wild. Bill is
one of the most underrated mobsters in the Columbo crime
family of all time, and sadly, the Persco family ruined
that family. In terms of the mob, mister Kattolo should
have led this family. He was feared, he was respected,
and he made a ton of money. By May of
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nineteen ninety nine, the Colombo crime family knew that Katolo
needed to go and the contract was given to mister
Jowelli and his crew. From what we know, Miss Kattolo
was picked up by Tommy Shotts and they were driven
to a home in Brooklyn that belonged to the family
of Little Dino Saracino. Now, upon getting out of the car,
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while Bill Cottolo was met by Dino Collaboro, who was
just an associate at that time, and I think at
that point collabor knew something wasn't right. He would say
to Collaboro, alley boys, here right. They would walk him
to the back of the home. It's like a side
entrance to a door. As they walk down the stairs,
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Collaboro pools a gun out shoots Katolo multiple times. They
then put the body in a blue tarp, Copiatello and
his cohorts take that to the mass burial grave on
Long Island and get rid of the remains. Now in
two thousand and four, by this point, Caves has been
involved in a lot of crimes, a lot of murders,
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been involved in a lot of things. And that year
it was said Joey Caves was inducted into the Colombo
crime family. Dino Sarasina, you know, also got his button,
as well as Saracino's brother. It wouldn't last long though.
After the induction and being placed in the crew of
Tommy Shots. In two thousand and eight, the Columbo crime
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family got some bad news. All of them were indicted.
Copy of Tello, Tommy Shots, Little Dino, Big Dino, everybody
got arrested and had to face the long possibility of
never seeing the light of day again. They were murders,
there was racketeering, There was really everything that you dread
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as a mobster. Look like at all the things that
Copy Tello was involved in. You look at some of
these things in the indictment, the conspiracy to murder Frank Marassa,
the murder of Frank Marossa, the hit on Richie Graves,
Bill Kotolo, Joseph Michio, you know, Ralph Dole. I mean,
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there's all sorts of hits here. And when you were
a mobster and you were involved in a racketeering indictment,
the goal is to avoid violence. If you can avoid violence,
you know, you can get a favorable conviction, you favorable plea.
But copia Tello isn't stupid. They're not. These guys aren't stupid.
They're they're not They're they're smart guys. They know in
the end, the writing is on the wall. Now. It
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was said that in the nineties, mister copy Tello was
approached by the FBI to cooperate, which he fervently declined.
That said, just months after his arrest in two thousand
and eight, mister kampia Tello decided that he would do
the unthinkable. He would become an informant. Now what would
happen is really a domino effect, because once compia Tello
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starts talking, he implicates Dino Calabro, who starts talking as well.
And both of these guys were facing life. They weren't
going to ever get out of prison, and they knew it.
They were on the hook for a cop killing. They
were on the hook for multiple murders. And what happens
is not only does compia Tello flip, he leaves the
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charge and other people flipping, and then down the road
everybody gets screwed. In the end. This group who was
very accomplished, they did a lot of hits, a lot
of things that went on. They were all going to
go down, whether it was cooperating or being convicted or
going to prison. Now, what copy Teller would also do
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is really find out and give the FBI information on
the mob barrel ground. He would help locate the body
of mister Kutolo. He would help, you know, find an
end for the Gargano family, that vicious murder that he
participated in and did in nineteen ninety four beating a
man with a sledgehammer after shooting him multiple times. You know,
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he put some ends to some very sad cases and
their families at least got a little justice. Copy Teller
would take the stand in at one point be admonished
by a judge in this case after he made hand
signals to tom shots. There is again one thing that
I will continue to state about mister compia Tello, regardless
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of whether he is a rat or not, he is
a very very dangerous individual. And I said the same
things about Junior Pagan when I interviewed him. You could say,
what do you want about Pegan, But a lot of
people feared him in the streets and probably still do.
As well as Compy Tello. These guys weren't you know, sweet,
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They weren't you know. This is why you don't see
these guys really on YouTube. They're not built like that.
They still are gangsters. They flipped, but they're still tough
and they'll still blow your head off if they need to.
Compy Tello, as far as various people I talked to,
you said the same thing about him. In the end,
Competello would give a lot of info and this would
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hurt a lot of people. Tommy Shotts would be sentenced
to a long prison sentence. Little Dino Sarasino was still
in prison. He would ultimately get fifty years. He still
sits there. Joe Waverley went to prison for about twenty years.
In the end, Joey Caves would receive twelve years. Remember
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this is a man who participated in nearly a dozen murders,
possibly more. He robbed people he extorted people, he beat
people up, he stabbed people, did all sorts of things. Today,
Joey Caves is fifty four years old, approximately fifty four
years old, and from what I understand, lives in New
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Jersey somewhere. I know where he lives. I'm not going
to state where, but he does live in New Jersey.
I will say this, and I'm not really sure why
I'm gonna protect this guy, but from what I understand,
and I've talked to various people on this, but I
consider myself a half a journalist and I'm not going
to bring on something that I don't have full proof of.
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But from what I understand, Joey cavesshed a vicious beating
to someone on YouTube right now inside federal prison. They
were all on, you know, a cooperation unit, and Joey
Caves gave the business to a person I'll notify as
just DC. You can do the rest as far as
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figuring out who that is, but you know who you are.
You know, Joey Caves gave you a beating. We've all
heard about it, but that's that. Joey Caves very violent individual,
a very violent person who is trying to move on
in his life. You know, a lot of the crimes.
Remember Joey Caves when he was arrested, was only thirty
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six years old. I'm thirty six years old. Joey Caves
was arrested. He did all this stuff by thirty six,
got involved with the life and his teens, spent about
twenty years in it. And now he's, you know, not
an old man, but he's getting older. He's in his fifties,
mid fifties. He has to live with some of the
things that he did. And at further shows the kind
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of wildness of cooperation agreements. Right, you look at Calabro
and mister copy Tello. You know, people that were friends
from their teenage years on. These are guys that are
responsible for a dozen or so murders. They are both
on the street, living somewhere in America. This is why
I would always advise people. You know, and I've had
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I've had my fair share of talking stupid in public.
This is why you never you never talk stupid in
public because you never know who you're talking to. You know,
it could look like some old man and they killed
twenty people and they flipped and now they live next
to you. And I was somewhere you know you can
never be too careful, but one of the most violent
people over the last twenty five years in the Columbo
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crime family. Joey Cave's copy of Tello A wild story
and really the story of the Bay Parkway Boys. A
lot of people in that group flipped, some didn't, some
are still out there. I hope you enjoyed this video.
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here on the sit Down.
Welcome to the sit Down, a Mafia history podcast. Here's
your host, Jeff Nado. What's up everybody, and welcome in
to another edition of the sit Down. I am your host,
Jeff Nayd. This is episode two hundred and twenty nine
of the podcast. As always, if you're enjoying what we're doing,
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please make sure you leave us a five star rating
and a review. I hope everybody's having a great week.
Uh it is uh here in middle of September, getting
closer and closer to fall. Lot going on right now
in my world, but we're here, get another show, another
shit Down. Today we got some news to get into.
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We had a death to report, pretty big one in
the American Mafia. I also want to talk about an
arrest rays at the San Gennaro Feast, which shows us
that the Mob is still around, at least at San Gennaro.
We know the Mob is still around in general. I've
talked kind of widely about how the mob is still
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making money. There's still five families, you know, all that
sort of thing. But the San Gennaro Feast is still
an option for them in terms of making money, and
that was shown recently. We're also going to talk today
about a mob informant that maybe you've not heard of. Obviously,
we've heard of so many and we've done shows on
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so many. However, today's you may not have heard of.
We're going to talk about a Colombo mob informant called
Joey Caves Compotello. Before we do that, though, I do
want to get into some news. We had a death
that came over the wire last night September twenty first,
twenty twenty five. According to sources that I have, Boston
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mobster Carmen Cheeseman Dnunzio has died at the age of
sixty eight. Now this is not just a mob guy.
I mean, Carmen d'anunzio was the boss of the patriarch
of crime family for years. This is a guy who
look if you know who he is, I mean he's
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a very rotund, large individual. It was said that Danunzio
weighed over four hundred and fifty pounds. He's a big guy.
Had a lot of health issues. I had heard that
he was dealing with some health problems For a while. Dnunzio,
alongside his brother Anthony, came up in Boston. Their East
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Boston guys, but for years they were under Jerry Angulo,
who was the boss at the patriarch of Crime Family
for a while. Definitely a high ranking individual. He got
his name due to the fact that he had a
cheese shop called Fresh Cheese, which was on Endicott Street
in the North End, right near where Angelo and everybody
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held court. An interesting guy, really, I mean, we don't
hear much about the patriarch or Crime Family anymore, but
this is a guy who really, throughout the last twenty
or so years, had been bossed for various points of time.
He took over once Peter Lamoni died, so it's been
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about ten years a little bit more than that. Really,
you have to really go back to, like the too
that late two thousands when it was rumored that he
was the boss of the Patriarchal Family. He would eventually
go away though, and his brother Anthony would become acting boss.
There's been rumors that he retained control again and then
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kind of due to health concerns, kind of stepped down
a little bit. I think Robert Carraza has kind of
been your acting boss for a while. But Denunzio has
done a lot of time. He was in prison at
one point, he got six years for trying to bribe
an FBI agent as part of a kind of an
extortion racket that he was attempting to do in the
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construction industry. He got out of prison, I want to say,
around twenty seventeen, and I kind of went right back
to it. I have talked to people that knude under
They said he was a real nice guy. Everybody, you know,
very few people had anything bad to say about him.
His brother actually, when he was boss, he was caught
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on wiretap discussing that. You know, I get to watch
you down on the ground, just you know, these are
guys that there were mob guys. They did what they
had to do to survive, and you know that's who
they were. But you know, Dununzio, I don't think his
death comes at any great shock to people that follow
mob stuff, just due to the fact that, you know,
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he has had medical problems. He is a you know,
a large guy. You know obviously, you know when you're overweight,
you have to deal with complications occasionally from that. So
it's unclear how he died, But my guess is it's
just natural causes. So we'll have to see. But Carma
d Nunzio, bosson the Patrick crime family, dead at the
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age of sixty eight. There has been rumors, at least
been asked to me, you know what is left of Boston,
And to be quite honest, not a lot. I mean
when you really look around the country, I think you
really have to ask yourself, really outside of New York,
you know, can you call what these families are? Can
you call them mob families anymore? You know, is there
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a distinct hierarchy? Are there distinct kind of people in control?
You know, there have been people including I know, like
Mikey Scars Dee Leonardo had mentioned that in a video
that even back in the two thousands he didn't really
believe that Boston was really that active. So I think
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you really have to ask yourself, you know, do you
consider people that are made guy on the street and
maybe doing one or two things, Is that a mob family?
I think that's a big question in a lot of cities,
you know, whether it be Chicago or Detroit or Boston.
I think you can obviously say that in Buffalo there
is a family. I'm not going to tell you that
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there's no family in Chicago Detroit, but they're definitely very small. Now,
you know, a lot of the organization is older, and
I think in probably ten or so years, I don't
think any of these cities will really have much more
than a few guys in them. Even in Philadelphia. I mean,
when we talk about the mafia, what exactly are they doing?
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You know, do you consider people that have legitimate businesses
that at one point were regarded as mobsters. I will
tell you this, I know in Philadelphia personally that if
you need a loan or you want to bet with
a bookmaker, most of those people are independent pizzeria owners.
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They're family men that they're not mob guys. Right, And
this is not just now. I remember many years ago,
you know, when I was younger and I needed loans,
like I take a thousand, two thousand loan, I wasn't
getting them from like mob guys per se. You're getting
them from you know, guys that live up your street that.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know, maybe are our cabinet makers or or or
they have some sort of construction company or brick layers
or something, you know, and they have you know, five
or ten customers, and they give small.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Loans out and they make a little money on the
side due to Jews. You're not getting them from mob guys.
It's just not happening. And I know that personally because
I've done that. I've gotten loans when I was younger
from guys in Philly. They were not mob guys. So
I'm not going to tell you that there's no family
in you know, these areas, but they're obviously significantly smaller,
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and I think Boston is a prime example of that.
Speaking of the mob, there was something that I do
know that happened at the San Gennaro feast. This has
not been big news just because there's really nobody reporting
on this kind of stuff anymore. But from what I understand,
a made member of the Gambino crime family, a man
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called William Billy Scotto, was arrested at San Gennaro on
the tenth of September, and from what I understand, it
had something to do with some sort of dispute he
got into with a vendor at San Gennaro. This happened
in the area of Maulbury and Canal Street as far
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as I know, and he was given a desk ticket
and scheduled to appear on September twenty ninth to learn
more about it at that point. Scotto has been around
a while. He kind of started moving around in the nineties.
He was jammed up on extortion in the early two
thousands mid two thousands from extortions that he committed in
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the nineties as a associate of the Games. He was
shaking down a brokerage firm alongside Johnny Gamerano, who was
a longtime Gambino guy. He was then hit with a
couple more extortions in the two thousands of the trucking
industry construction Big extortion Guy, Big Loan Shark. He was
under Danny Marino for a while. I know he was
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under Mikey Scars at one point, and then he was
given a button and was jammed up. On Mob Takedown
Day in two thousand and eight, Scatto was actually trying
to shake down a person called Joe Valaro, who was
actually a government informant. Vlara was a trucking company owner
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and I know MOB guys were kind of clashing with
him over At one point there was a thought about
putting a NASCAR track on Staten Island, and they were
supposed to be going to handle a lot of the
dirt and fill operations. The trucking companies, and there was
a lot of beefs with mob guys and Valaro, who
eventually he flipped. Scotto eventually did a couple of years
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he got out. His name has popped up in some
things as far as like personal things. As far as
I know, he was sitting down for his nephew who
was in a beef with the Columbo family. From what
I understand, mister Scotto has a nephew, Michael, who's in
his thirties or early forties, and he is in a
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relationship with a high ranking Colombo crime family member's daughter.
And I guess he was doing some things he wasn't
supposed to be doing and he was vilified over it,
and his uncle had to sit down for him. So, yeah,
Billy Scotto's name pops up. It's a Brooklyn guy. He
lives in Staten Island. Nobody's say anything good about him.
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When I asked around on him. I asked a few
people that knew Scotto directly. They did not speak highly
of him. Said, he's never been in a fistfight in
his life, but he acts like a tough guy all
the time. Again, not my words, those are those are
words that people that knew him told me that said,
I mean, there might be people that that I haven't
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spoken to, that know him, that say he's a good guy.
I really don't know. I don't know the man. But
he was arrested at San Gennaro. There are rumors that
he has not been back to San Gennaro since this
little stunt, So I guess we'll have to see what
goes on here on the ten or on the twenty ninth.
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My apologies about a week from today. I think actually
a week from today. So yeah, all right, let's get
into our biography portion of the show. Today, we're going
to talk about a person called Joseph Compotello. Compitello is
probably on the short list of the most dangerous people
ever associated with the mafia that cooperated. I put him
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on the level of Junior Pagan some of the other
pretty dangerous people we talked about. Caves is still feared today.
It's that simple. He is a very vicious individual. So
we're gonna talk about him his connection to Tommy Gioelli,
Dino Colabro. This is a guy that committed multiple murders
on behalf of the Columbo crime family. So let's get
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into it. Let's talk about Joseph Comptello on the Sit
Down Down. Joseph Compiatello was born in nineteen seventy one
in Brooklyn, New York. At one point he would live
in the area of seventy third Street and twenty first
Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Now we do know that seventy
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fifth Street and twentieth Avenue is not far away, and
Joey Caves was a mainstay on that block for years
growing up. It was said that Joey Cave's father, Angelo,
actually owned a landscaping company called Angelo Compiateello Landscaping and
down the road. Compiotello's involved and in the streets and
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in the mafia were a problem for his father. He
wasn't able to get certain licensure be involved in certain
unions because they're going to look into your family. And
his son was a mobster. Now it was said by
his teens. According to city court documents, Compiotello would serve
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time in prison, most notably on Rockers Island for various
assault cases that he caught in the early nineties. Now,
as I said, compia Tello was a mainstay in and
around seventy fifth and twentieth Avenues in Benzner's and the
kids on that block included Dino Collabra. They were involved
in everything from stealing cars to committing robberies. Copiateello actually
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had a chop shop. He would steal cars, chop them
down and sell them for parts in Brooklyn, and his
violent ways started very early, according to what we know,
in the early nineties, Joseph Compiateello was involved in murdering
a person called Joseph Mitchio. According to what we know,
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Mitchio was a subordinate of mister Compiatello, but started to
get involved in his own things, started stealing cars from
a restaurant that was belonging to the Gambino crime family.
People got tired of Mitchio and Copiateelo allegedly shot him
multiple times in the head and pushed him out of
a vehicle in Brooklyn. So that was the first time
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that we know that Joseph compi Tello committed a murder.
Now we would find throughout his time in the mafia,
mister Compiateello was involved in various murders and he would
talk about them. Eventually. Compiateello, as well as Collabra and
other members of the Bay Parkway Boys would become affiliated
with members of the Columbo crime fan they'd become under
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the control of longtime Columbo member Thomas Tommy shots Joeli No.
We've done a video on Joeli as well. He was
kind of the guy behind all these guys. He was
the mentor of all these people. He was the director
of all these people, and he was the captain of
all of these people. We also know that people in
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this group, particularly Dino Calabro, Joey Caves and Dino Saracino,
were quite close. They were boyhood friends. They had been
friends for years, and these are people that were very
violent individuals. Now. Joey Caves and both Dino Callaboro as
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well discussed that in the early nineties they were called
upon by Tommy Shotts to do what they had to
do in the Colombo War. According to various testimonies, they
would testify that Jioeli said he needed all of them,
including Collabro, Richie, Dino and Joey whenever he was around,
to drive him around and drive around with guns. They
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would testify that our orders were to shoot and kill
on site if we saw any members of the opposed
in faction. During the Clumbo War and said that Joeli
said that he would point them out to them. Colabero
also testified, as well as copy Tello, that he and
others drove around social clubs, homes, businesses with guns looking
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for VIC Arena members, specifically testifying that they searched directly
around the Avenue En Cafe to locate Joey Scopo, a
high ranking Arena Faction member. Compiotello and Collaboro would also
testify that Dino Saracino was involved in an attempt to
locate and kill an Arena Faction member known as Bobo.
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We will know down the road that that was Bobo Malpizo.
The jury would properly draw the inference that if Sarasino
was looking for Arena Faction members, he was looking for
them for the purpose of shooting to kill, as we
know Tommy Joeli ordered. Now we do know that both Competello, Collaboro,
and also Gioeli were not only burglars and robbers, but
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they were also loan sharks, and Joelie would instruct both
Collabro and Compiateello to collect loan shark decks that loan
shark debts. At one point, Compio Tello would state that
he was going after a person called Peter Risk that
owed money and that if he didn't give up the
money to quote break his face off. According to Collabro,
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the Collabora would down the Road state that Saracino told
Collabra that Saracino had searched for Peter Risk and that
Sarasino and Compiateello quote stabbed him. Compiotello would similarly testify
that he and Saracino chased down Peter Risk and stabbed
him while asking Risk why he had not called Collabra
back in regards to a debt that he owed them.
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So copia Tello was a very important enforcer, not only
to beat up and stab loan Shark debtors, but also
to kill in Most people that I've talked to about
compia Tello, they would tell me that he had those
deep dark eyes, eyes that just are killer eyes. He
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was a nutcase, many people would tell me. And he
was very good with his hands. He could beat people up,
he could use a gun. He was very helpful to
people like Tommy Shotts, and this is why Tommy shots
down the Road would have a very fierce reputation. When
somebody needed to go. In the late nineties early two thousands,
the Joelie Crew was called upon. Here all the guys
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can be seen at the wedding of Joseph Compiotello's sister
on the far left, Dino Calabro, then Joey Caves, Dino
Saracino in the blue, and then Tommy Shots to the
far right. Now, during the Columba War, it was said
that Joey Caves participated in the June nineteen ninety one
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murder of a man called Frank Chesnut Marassa. Now we
don't have photos obviously of Joseph Mitchell or for a
person called Richard Greaves, who we'll talk about. Some of
these guys don't have photos, but Chesnut Marasso was killed
in ninety one, and down the road compy Tello was
given that murder on his docket. One of the most
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depraved murders that mister compy Tello was involved in was
in the nineteen ninety four murder of a man called
Carmine Gargano. Now, as far as we know, Carmon Gargano
it was said by some was a mob associate, And
I'm not saying he was. I'm only stating what certain
people say. All as far as we know is his
family would say that he was not connected to the
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mob and was actually a college student at Pace University.
It was said that, according to Dino Calabro, Joseph Compi
Tello shot mister Gargano multiple times in a garage that
he owned. I'm going to get into some of the
other things that Dino Calabra's stated about the murder of
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mister Gargano. He would state that Compioitello would tell him
as to why he killed Gargano. Quote compy Tello, I
don't know. I just felt like it. I was upset.
The Computello would then state to Callabra, what do I
do with the body? Dino would state, I don't care
what you do with the body. Throw him out of
a car, bury him, just get rid of him. That
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was also stated that Competello would tell Collabra that once
he shot mister Gargano, he was a big kid and
he didn't go down, to which Compi Tello stated he
would then beat him multiple times with a sledgehammer, ultimately
killing him. Carmi Gargano's body and remains were missing four
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years and he was reported missing four years by his family.
These are some very violent, very depraved murders. They would
then take Gargano and, according to compy Tello, him in
a shallow grave. In nineteen ninety five, the cohorts would
take part in murdering a person called Richard Greaves, who
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was actually a member of the crew. He was a
mob associated. He was a person who cannot be made
due to the fact that he wasn't fully Italian. But
he was there with all the guys in twentieth Avenue.
He was there taking part in murders. He was taking
part in robberies. Eventually, though, Richard Greaves decided that he
had a change of heart and did not want to
be a part of the mob anymore, to which this
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group decided, well, he needed to go. He knew too much,
to which he was whacked out, supposedly in a house
belonging to Joseph Compiaatello's family. It's alleged after the fact,
according to what we know, Compiatello and Sebastian Saracino testified
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that Saracino shot Richard Greaves with a thirty eight caliber
gun in the presence of Tommy Shotsgioueli They would then
testify both Sarah Rasino in copy of Tello that they
cleaned up the murder scene and took Greaves's body and
buried it in a shallow grave and took his jeet
to a location near the Arizona Bridge. It was said
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later that copy Tello would then begin having sex with
Richard Greaves's girlfriend. That's what they do. They take you out,
then they start banging your girlfriend. That's the life. Copy
Tello was then involved in a very high piece of work,
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profile piece of work, allegedly on behalf of a man
called Joel Joe Waverley. Cacase now Cacase down the road
would beat this murder, though a lot of the things
involved in it just seemed too good to be true.
In nineteen ninety seven, a New York City police officer
by the name of Ralph Doles was shot late on
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a Friday night in nineteen ninety seven. The two shooters
that night were said to be Dino Calabro and Little
Dino Saracino, Colabo's cousin that this was given on orders
of Tommy Shotts, on behalf of Joel Waverley, and that
Calabra was the shooter. Now the wheelman in this murder
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was said to be Joseph compia Tello. So all of
these people just took part in the murder of a cop, which, again,
unless you are a drug cartel, is highly off limits.
The compia Tello, Calabra, and Saracino would all state that
they did not know that mister Doles was a cop.
They were told that Doles was a quote Mexican who
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worked at a social club. We would find out down
the road that Ralph Doles was married to the former
wife of Joel Waverley. Case seems a bit random, doesn't it.
Now down the road, Case would somehow beat to beat
the rap in this murder, but Doles was still just
as dead. Very sad case involving one of the NYP finest.
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Then the most high profile murder that mister compio Tello
and his cohorts would take part of would begin. In
nineteen ninety nine, the Columbo crime family realized they had
a real problem on their hands in terms of leadership.
Aliboy Persco, the boss is in prison, Jackie de Ross
at number three had people breathing down his neck, and
the underboss at the time they believed while Bill Cottolo
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was a major threat and he was wild. Bill is
one of the most underrated mobsters in the Columbo crime
family of all time, and sadly, the Persco family ruined
that family. In terms of the mob, mister Kattolo should
have led this family. He was feared, he was respected,
and he made a ton of money. By May of
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nineteen ninety nine, the Colombo crime family knew that Katolo
needed to go and the contract was given to mister
Jowelli and his crew. From what we know, Miss Kattolo
was picked up by Tommy Shotts and they were driven
to a home in Brooklyn that belonged to the family
of Little Dino Saracino. Now, upon getting out of the car,
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while Bill Cottolo was met by Dino Collaboro, who was
just an associate at that time, and I think at
that point collabor knew something wasn't right. He would say
to Collaboro, alley boys, here right. They would walk him
to the back of the home. It's like a side
entrance to a door. As they walk down the stairs,
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Collaboro pools a gun out shoots Katolo multiple times. They
then put the body in a blue tarp, Copiatello and
his cohorts take that to the mass burial grave on
Long Island and get rid of the remains. Now in
two thousand and four, by this point, Caves has been
involved in a lot of crimes, a lot of murders,
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been involved in a lot of things. And that year
it was said Joey Caves was inducted into the Colombo
crime family. Dino Sarasina, you know, also got his button,
as well as Saracino's brother. It wouldn't last long though.
After the induction and being placed in the crew of
Tommy Shots. In two thousand and eight, the Columbo crime
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family got some bad news. All of them were indicted.
Copy of Tello, Tommy Shots, Little Dino, Big Dino, everybody
got arrested and had to face the long possibility of
never seeing the light of day again. They were murders,
there was racketeering, There was really everything that you dread
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as a mobster. Look like at all the things that
Copy Tello was involved in. You look at some of
these things in the indictment, the conspiracy to murder Frank Marassa,
the murder of Frank Marossa, the hit on Richie Graves,
Bill Kotolo, Joseph Michio, you know, Ralph Dole. I mean,
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there's all sorts of hits here. And when you were
a mobster and you were involved in a racketeering indictment,
the goal is to avoid violence. If you can avoid violence,
you know, you can get a favorable conviction, you favorable plea.
But copia Tello isn't stupid. They're not. These guys aren't stupid.
They're they're not They're they're smart guys. They know in
the end, the writing is on the wall. Now. It
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was said that in the nineties, mister copy Tello was
approached by the FBI to cooperate, which he fervently declined.
That said, just months after his arrest in two thousand
and eight, mister kampia Tello decided that he would do
the unthinkable. He would become an informant. Now what would
happen is really a domino effect, because once compia Tello
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starts talking, he implicates Dino Calabro, who starts talking as well.
And both of these guys were facing life. They weren't
going to ever get out of prison, and they knew it.
They were on the hook for a cop killing. They
were on the hook for multiple murders. And what happens
is not only does compia Tello flip, he leaves the
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charge and other people flipping, and then down the road
everybody gets screwed. In the end. This group who was
very accomplished, they did a lot of hits, a lot
of things that went on. They were all going to
go down, whether it was cooperating or being convicted or
going to prison. Now, what copy Teller would also do
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is really find out and give the FBI information on
the mob barrel ground. He would help locate the body
of mister Kutolo. He would help, you know, find an
end for the Gargano family, that vicious murder that he
participated in and did in nineteen ninety four beating a
man with a sledgehammer after shooting him multiple times. You know,
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he put some ends to some very sad cases and
their families at least got a little justice. Copy Teller
would take the stand in at one point be admonished
by a judge in this case after he made hand
signals to tom shots. There is again one thing that
I will continue to state about mister compia Tello, regardless
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of whether he is a rat or not, he is
a very very dangerous individual. And I said the same
things about Junior Pagan when I interviewed him. You could say,
what do you want about Pegan, But a lot of
people feared him in the streets and probably still do.
As well as Compy Tello. These guys weren't you know, sweet,
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They weren't you know. This is why you don't see
these guys really on YouTube. They're not built like that.
They still are gangsters. They flipped, but they're still tough
and they'll still blow your head off if they need to.
Compy Tello, as far as various people I talked to,
you said the same thing about him. In the end,
Competello would give a lot of info and this would
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hurt a lot of people. Tommy Shotts would be sentenced
to a long prison sentence. Little Dino Sarasino was still
in prison. He would ultimately get fifty years. He still
sits there. Joe Waverley went to prison for about twenty years.
In the end, Joey Caves would receive twelve years. Remember
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this is a man who participated in nearly a dozen murders,
possibly more. He robbed people he extorted people, he beat
people up, he stabbed people, did all sorts of things. Today,
Joey Caves is fifty four years old, approximately fifty four
years old, and from what I understand, lives in New
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Jersey somewhere. I know where he lives. I'm not going
to state where, but he does live in New Jersey.
I will say this, and I'm not really sure why
I'm gonna protect this guy, but from what I understand,
and I've talked to various people on this, but I
consider myself a half a journalist and I'm not going
to bring on something that I don't have full proof of.
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But from what I understand, Joey cavesshed a vicious beating
to someone on YouTube right now inside federal prison. They
were all on, you know, a cooperation unit, and Joey
Caves gave the business to a person I'll notify as
just DC. You can do the rest as far as
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figuring out who that is, but you know who you are.
You know, Joey Caves gave you a beating. We've all
heard about it, but that's that. Joey Caves very violent individual,
a very violent person who is trying to move on
in his life. You know, a lot of the crimes.
Remember Joey Caves when he was arrested, was only thirty
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six years old. I'm thirty six years old. Joey Caves
was arrested. He did all this stuff by thirty six,
got involved with the life and his teens, spent about
twenty years in it. And now he's, you know, not
an old man, but he's getting older. He's in his fifties,
mid fifties. He has to live with some of the
things that he did. And at further shows the kind
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of wildness of cooperation agreements. Right, you look at Calabro
and mister copy Tello. You know, people that were friends
from their teenage years on. These are guys that are
responsible for a dozen or so murders. They are both
on the street, living somewhere in America. This is why
I would always advise people. You know, and I've had
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I've had my fair share of talking stupid in public.
This is why you never you never talk stupid in
public because you never know who you're talking to. You know,
it could look like some old man and they killed
twenty people and they flipped and now they live next
to you. And I was somewhere you know you can
never be too careful, but one of the most violent
people over the last twenty five years in the Columbo
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crime family. Joey Cave's copy of Tello A wild story
and really the story of the Bay Parkway Boys. A
lot of people in that group flipped, some didn't, some
are still out there. I hope you enjoyed this video.
If you did, sh ate that like button, comment, and
if you want to send a super thanks, hit the
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here on the sit Down.
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