Gregory Scarpa Jr a reputed soldier in the Colombo crime family may be in for early release if a Brooklyn judge agrees to reduce his 40 year sentence.
The son of an infamous New York mafia hit man and Colombo family captain Gregory Scarpa nicknamed the “Grim Reaper” was convicted on racketeering charges and sentenced to 40 years. Scarpa Jr has been fighting for two decades now in an effort to get his conviction overturned, which up to now have proven unsuccessful. The now 64 year old mobster is not scheduled to be released until 2035 but Federal Judge Edward Korman may be poised to chance that.
“Gregory Scarpa Jr“
Scarpa Jr supplied the feds with a tip that led to the recovery of explosives at the home of Terry Nichols a conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing, according to sources. Nichols and Scarpa were cell mates in the Florence, Colorado Supermax prison back in 2005 when the NY mobster tipped off the feds to a secret cache of explosives. Nichols is serving a life sentence for planning the infamous bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal building which killed over 160 people. Scarpa supplied the feds with a coded note written by Nichols which he planned to decipher if he was granted a reduced sentence. The feds were skeptical of Scarpa’s tip and after he failed a lie detector test the feds decided that there would be no deal.
But as the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing was looming Scarpa supplied a private investigator with information on the location of the explosives which were buried in the basement of Nichols home. The PI passed the information along to two congressmen who in turn informed the FBI and the explosives were recovered. Judge Korman acknowledged the fact that Scarpa had only supplied the feds with limited information, but he was under the impression the feds were holding a grudge against the defendant for embarrassing the bureau after it failed to immediately recover the explosives after Nichols arrest.
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Judge Korman also noted that informants get credit only when the information they provide if truthful and the tip Scarpa supplied was on the money. The mob scion also worked for the feds as an undercover informant in prison, helping to get information from Ramzi Youssef an Al Qaeda terrorists in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The Judge has suggested that Scarpa may be eligible to receive credit for his undercover work that involved Nichols and asked prosecutors in the case to recommend how much of his sentence could be reduced without waiving their longstanding objection. Pareicia Notopoulos declined to come up with a number as she said “I frankly believe that Greg Scarpa has done nothing but attempt to, pardon the phrase, bastardize the system.”
Whether or not Scarpa will get some time knocked off of his sentence or perhaps even walk out of prison with time served is yet to be seen, but the chance of either comes at the chagrin of the feds. Does is efforts to help the feds in their fight against terrorism over shadow his crimes as a member of the mafia will soon be determined by judge Korman.
UPDATE:
Judge grants Scarpa Jr a 10 year reduction on his 40 year sentence for tipping off feds and he now has a release date of 2025. It may prove to be a hollow victory for the 64 year old New York mob soldier as court papers have indicated he is suffering from an aggressive form of “nasopharyngeal squamous cell cancer” which may kill him within the next five years. The judge noted that if Scarpa survives to reach his new release date he will still have served a maximum sentence for his conviction on a RICO conspiracy to commit murder which was the most serious offense that he was sentenced for.
Seems like he would be in line for at least some credit for the info he provided esp considering the weight the feds put on anti-terrorism now. Not sure he should walk free today but I would imagine he gets a little time shaved off maybe down to a 2030 release date instead of the 2035.
He deserve time of he saved a lot of innocents lives the Feds hate him because his father embarrassed them
Right even though he had his own mob past the feds seem to be sticking the sins of his father on his head as well and definitely holding a grudge. He definitely did them a huge solid even he did it to help himself as much as anything else.
Now to make it even worse the guy is dying from cancer. Not only did he do the feds a solid which they give him no credit for but fight a sentence reduction for the guy which probably doesn’t even matter as he is likely to die behind bars anyway. Now that is holding way to harsh a grudge.
I heard that he got 10 years off his sentence. So his release date is now in 2025. But he will most likely die of cancer within the next 5 years. Feds fighting against an ill man that helped them in counter-terrorism, seems pathetic to me.
Quite pathetic
Damn 64 yrs ol & he dime out his celly.. I wonder if he is stll active within the family… Ijs.
Not sure if he is still considered active considering his long prison stretch and wont be out until 2035 if things don’t go his way here.
The dude been in jail since 1988. Plus in 1994 it came to light that his father was a “Top Echelon Informer” for the FBI for 30 years so there is no way that the mob would continue to allow Gregory Jr. to be active. Terry Nichols was never his cellmate, they were both held at ADMAX Colorado which is a super max prison and the inmates are in single cells. There is so much more to this story than what gets put in newspaper articles. Gregory has been giving the FBI information on terrorists since the mid 90’s so he isn’t some 64 year old that just decided to drop a dime. Go check out Peter Lance’s website where he has a lot of Gregory’s FBI 302’s. You can see the type of information that this man has been furnishing for years.
I’m actually very good friends with Greg Scarpa, Jr. We talk daily and he is a changed man and deserves to be set free. One of his daughter’s was 12 years old when he went in and now she is 40. He should be set free. They are wasting major major taxpayer’s money
I agree. They are using any excuse to keep him in jail. Caproni will do whatever she can to keep him in prison. It’s a shame. The feds want the credit for finding the explosives in Terry Nichols house. I read a lot of Jrs 302s. The info was on the money and as far as I’m concerned he should have been out years ago.
I agree with mafia and john grant ,if they give that Sammy the bull only 5 for ratting out gotti .I think they can give him time serviced for saving problems.
And now it seems feds are fighting against a sentence reduction for a guy dying from cancer , who likely never makes it out anyway. Ridiculous! Guy helps them with an anti-terrorism case and is suffering from cancer which probably makes this a non-issue anyway and they are still fighting it.
Bullshit too. They treated the terrorists better than some guy who ratted them out. FBI was just pissed because they sucked and couldn’t find the information themselves the first time around. This guy got a shitty rotten deal
That is so f’ed up.the feds are just as two face as any criminal. I don’t get it some guys they let go for no reason and some that really help out or do nothing wrong get f’ed over .johngrant check out making a murder on Netflix. Talk about a poor guy getting f’ed over by the government. That will make you really pissed.
Have seen that mentioned a few times around the web “Making a Murder” that is will def check it out.
Watch the fourth episode tonite it makes you sick what this government do to people. Plus mob in America is on there if haven’t seen that yet. That’s good too.
So,Terry Nichols kills 200+ but Scarpa is in for attempted murder. He helps find explosives that could’ve/would’ve killed others,that Feds missed. Then Feds are fighting sentence reduction b/c he’s allegedly part of Mafia. I guess this proves The War on Terrorism is a farce except if you’re part of a Criminal Org, if you want to help. I guess they forget,it takes a criminal to catch one. On top of that Scarpa is dieing from CA.