- Joe Ambrosino testified that Michael Sessa was made in December 1988 and promoted to acting capo of the Robert Zambardi (who had violated parole) crew in 1991. I believe Zambardi had taken over Carmine Sessa's crew when he took over as consigliere. Members of this crew (I believe all of these are associates) were Joe Ambrosino, Larry Fiorenza, Richie Brady, Michael DeMatteo, Louie "Ganoli" LNU, Carmine Imbriale (later flipped), Michael Bulino, Anthony "Bird" Coluccio, Frankie "Steel" Pontillo, and Anthony Sayegh.
- Anthony Coluccio was murdered May 1989. Coluccio was close to the Sessas and had committed murders with Carmine Sessa some years earlier, but he had gotten heavily into dealing and using drugs, committing robberies, and ""doing stupid things". Coluccio was arrested for drug possession in Atlantic City and Carmine Sessa felt he might flip, so he ordered Mike Sessa and Ambrosino to kill him. They were originally going to kill him in a Puerto Rican drug neighborhood to make it look like a deal gone bad ,but it was too crowded so they told him there was a beef on Staten Island and shot him in a car there. Hank Smurra drove a crash car.
- In June 1991, Carmine and Mike Sessa, Joe Ambrosino, and acting capo Joe "Lefty" Sangeorgio started planning to kill Vic Orena and acting underboss Joe Scopo. On June 20, Carmine Sessa learned that Orena was planning to kill him (Sessa) at a making ceremony that had been scheduled the next day. Still not clear how Sessa found out, but when they got the news they decided to try and kill Scopo near his club and Orena at his home that very night.
- A hit team led by Hank Smurra couldn't find Scopo at his club so they went to his home but were unable to ambush him. This was the hit team that fled to a New Jersey motel. As we know the Sessa hit team on Orena was also unsuccessful.
- Hank Smurra was a Persico loyalist who was killed by the Orena faction.
- It was believed that capo Bill Cutolo and his crew had attempted the failed attempt on Greg Scarpa in November. In response, Mike Sessa, Ambrosino, and other Sessa crew members tried to ambush Cutolo at his girlfriend's house on Staten Island where he had been seen with ten other Orena loyalists. Cutolo had already left, however.
- Another plan was devised to kill Cutolo on Thanksgiving where Mike Sessa, Ambrosino, and Larry Fiorenza would dress up as Hasidic Jews to kill Cutolo at his girlfriend's grandmother's house in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn. They obtained the costumed through Anthony Sayegh and stored the Jew costumes in Fiorenza's girlfriend's home. She later testified that she saw the costumes. Ambrosino also told Frank Pontillo that they had fake mustaches and beards for the costumes. However, as I mentioned earlier that was the day the NY Post article was published indicating Scarpa was a rat and because Scarpa likely knew about the plan to dress as Jews to kill Cutolo, they gave it up. The other info I posted said it was Scarpa who was going to dress as a Hasidic, but it sounds like that is inaccurate and he was just involved in planning.
- In November 1991, Carmine Sessa informed Mike Sessa and Ambrosino that Orena, Scopo, and capo Thomas Petrizzo had been seen in Ozone Park and they tried to ambush them there but again failed. They found Scopo playing cards with Gambino members and decided not to kill him there due to the presence of Gambinos.
- The following month in December, Mike Sessa, AMbrosino, and Imbriale attempted to kill Michael Spataro, an associate of Bill Cutolo. However, they received word that their car matched a vehicle that had committed an unrelated murder and the police were looking for it so they called it off.
- In January 1992, Carmine Sessa ordered his brother Mike, Ambrosino, and other crew members to kill Frank Iannaci, another associate of Bill Cutolo. They waited outside of Iannaci's apartment but a security guard approached them so they fled.
- During this same period, Mike Sessa, Ambrosino, and Imbriale planned to murder Cutolo soldier Joe Campanella at his home in Brooklyn. They could not locate him.
- In April 1992, Mike Sessa, Ambrosino, Pontillo, and Mike DeMatteo attmpted to kill soldier "Bobo" Mapeso of the Amato crew. However, they noticed a LE vehicle at the scene which began to follow them and aborted the hit. They made a couple more attempts culminating in an attempt where they tried to block his car but Ambrosino stopped prematurely which only allowed them to shoot Malpeso's back window. They called it off after that.
- In June 1992, Carmine Sessa, Mike Sessa, Greg Scarpa, and the rest of the Sessa crew came up with another plan to kill Bill Cutolo. There would be seventeen members of the hit team in total, including members and associates. The shooters would be Pontillo, Fiorenza, DeMatteo, and Richie Brady, with Ambrosino as a shooter/driver and Mike Sessa as a back-up shooter. This hit was planned for Cutolo's girlfriend's home and would include stoln cars, machine guns, shotguns, bulletproof vests, and armor-piercing bullets. They also did test drives to prepare. The FBI had bugged Ambrosino's car however and heard the whole plan which led to them arresting Ambrosino and DeMatteo. Sessa then called off the plan.
- Joe Ambrosino was the chief loanshark for Carmine Sessa and loaned money out to other loansharks in the crew.
