Originally Posted by dsd
New year's Eve 1970, an African American husband and wife were hired to act as waiters/ servers at a house party thrown by Colombo guy Joseph "fatty" Russo. There was at least 30 people present.

At some point ol' Fatty became enraged at seeing the black guy ' dancing ' with a white woman ( which I personally doubt, bet just the sight of her talking to him was too much ), Russo grabbed a gun and killed BOTH the husband and wife. This was in front of everyone, I think.

Because, the bodies are found within a day, Russo hired a plane and took 30 of the party goers with him.(somewhere hot, Florida??).
Apparently he got in touch with DiBiase Pinto, he took it to Joe Yak and Yak took it to snake Persico. Who had a Meeting in Gallo death rat Luparelli's house.

All I know is that Russo wasn't convicted for some reason.( Had 2 mistrials)

Does anyone have any additional info?

Was he made?

Related to the Colombo Russo's ie Andy Mush?

Do we know what he did in his mob life?

Shame that he could get away with it.





https://gangstersinc.org/2012/03/16/give-a-man-a-gun-the-story-of-carmine-dibiase/

By the end of the 1960s, DiBiase and his wife were living in an apartment in Southbridge Towers at 90 Beekman Street in the South Street Seaport District in Lower Manhattan.

He was also involved in a particular brutal and sordid double-murder that took place on the last night of 1970.

On New Year’s Eve, Joseph Fatty Russo held a party at his home on Packanack Lake, in Wayne County, New Jersey. An affluent crook, he was connected into the New York Mafia by an uncle who was a member of one of the five crime families. Fatty himself grew up around Mulberry Street and had allegedly generated his considerable wealth through drug trafficking. He had known Sonny Pinto most of his life.

Sometime after midnight, the party went badly wrong.

Russo had hired two black people to wait on his guests. One was Charles Shepard, a local man, thirty-one year old part-time musician and bar tender. The other, was his common-in-law wife, Shirley Green, who worked as a waitress, and lived in Manhattan. There were over thirty people attending, including children. The party was held in the large basement area of the property. By the end of the night, Russo was either drunk or stoned or a combination of the two, and he noticed that Shepard was drinking his booze, and even worse, dancing and trying to make out with the wife of his nephew.

Incensed, he stormed upstairs into his bedroom where he kept a loaded .38 calibre hand gun, came tumbling back down the stairs and in front of the entire party, emptied the gun into Shepard, killing him instantly. The chaos that erupted must have been electrifying. While some of the guests held a struggling and screaming Shirley, Russo then staggered back to his bedroom, found his ammunition box, re-loaded the gun and went back down to the basement where he shot Shirley six times in the head.

The guests were hustled away to their homes, and along with three of his remaining friends, Russo carried the two bodies to a car which was driven to Pine Brook Road in Montville about fifteen miles away, and the two dead bodies were dumped unceremoniously into snow drifts that lined the street. They were discovered there the first day of January, and the New Jersey police mounted an investigation.

By the time the detectives assigned to the enquiry had traced the shooting to Russo’s home, he had moved to Florida. As the police dug deeper, they discovered that all the guests present that night in New Jersey were also in Florida, on an expense-paid holiday, courtesy of Fatty. Also down for the sun and R & R was Sonny Pinto.

When Russo was finally arrested and charged with the murders of Shephard and Green, he turned to Carmine Persico, a powerful capo or crew boss in the Colombo family, who assured him that the case could be fixed through the family’s connections and control of crooked law enforcement and judicial officers.

Russo was in fact tried twice for the double murders, but was acquitted on both occasions. Federal Organized Crime Strike Force investigators had tapped telephone calls between Russo, Joe Yacovelli, and Carmine DiBiase, which indicated that Russo was being offered help and assistance to evade or avoid prosecution in the murders.

On August 8th, 1972, Federal warrants were issued against all three men on charges of conspiracy. On November the 13th, all of the men were indicted for conspiring to enable Russo to avoid prosecution for murder. In September 1973, a mistrial was declared in the case of Russo and Persico. By then, both Yacovelli and DiBiase were fugitives from justice.