That and he had a jury trial on ordering a hit on somebody. I can't remember the name off top. But he beat that case while in jail for the scores thing and then gets out of jail.
Nicky LaSorsa. That hit never would have gone down anyway. Nicky's a gazillionaire who was capable of consistently feeding the administration millions, while Greg consistently sent them to prison. Jailhouse braggadocio on Greg's part. It was never going down, and that's why he beat that case.
The book (and again, its just one side) says that the original target was Funzi Sisca, Chris Sucurata, and Louis Fillipelli. They were shaking down a strip club and the strip club owner called and asked for help from the feds. It was only after Depalma got out of jail ( a few months after the investigation started) that they started focusing on him. DEpalma apparently called the strip bar owner and told him that he was the guy they needed to pay now that he was out. According to Garcia, it was at that point, that they switched the focus of the investigation to Depalma.
That's bullshit.
The original rat in the case, Fat Pete, was with Greg, and co-owned Pretty Woman with Greg's son, Craig, and Willie (who Greg turned into a rat in the Scores case). Falcone can claim whatever the fuck he wants. But Fat Pete set the operation in motion when the Feds were going to bury him with prison time for tax evasion. He approached them while Greg was still in the can.
That's Gospel. Anyone with an ounce of street knowledge in the Bronx will tell you the exact same thing. It's not like I'm claiming that it's like "inside information."
Re Fat Pete: He recently left Witness Protection, too. He's living under his real name in a fancy upper Connecticut town. It's over (for the most part), no matter what some people claim.
