Gregory Scarpa was for years the best soldier and member of the Persico faCTION in the third Colombo war, but since the '60s he is an FBI informant, according to some this is the reason because Carmine Persico has done so often in prison. Having to submit to a blood transfusion, he preferred to accept the blood of his men, however, didn't know that one of them, perhaps Paul Mele, was hiv positive.
He was a bodybuilder who abused steroids and could have taken the disease from a infected needle. Scarpa to justify his failing health told everyone he had cancer. After he was arrested in 1992 and admitted to being an informer, he convict
all members of his faction; was sentenced to 10 years for three murders, died of AIDS nell'1994. Because of him and his mistress Linda Schiro, Lyndsey DeVecchio an FBI agent, who was the contact of Scarpa, was accused and then acquitted of corruption.
http://realdealmafia.com/scarpaold.jpgScarpa,in prison before die.
Carmine Persico, said the snake, and the immortal. Still boss of the Colombo family in prison since 1987, the only survivor of the commission trial, Joe Pistone in his book says that once was so stupid because of it easy in a case he gets 14 years instead of 1. Initially it was in the Gallo faction, then passed to the winning side, and nearly died in the attack by the warp Gallo in retaliation.Although incarcerated for the rest of his natural life, Persico formed the "Lompoc Four", a band in which Russo played guitar and Persico played the drums, as well as participating in the annual prison rodeo competition
