Was Roy DeMeo a Capo at the end of his "career"?

Hi,

stupid question: was Roy DeMeo a Capo before he died? All of his DeMeo Crew-members where at this time just Assoziates or?

Interesting that Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa ended up in the Lucchese-family.

ps. sorry for bad english

Roy DeMeo was a soldier in Nino Gaggi´s crew. However, when Gaggi was impriosoned/jailed back in 1979, DeMeo served as an acting captain of Gaggi´s crew. But he was never the official captain of the crew. The "DeMeo crew" media and law enforcment sometimes are referring to is the group of people who was associated with DeMeo and under his command.

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aaah, thank you.

Roy was never a "official" capo. Like one poster mentioned earlier Demeo filled the role of acting capo for a short time after the 1979 arrest of nino gaggi after the eppolito murders. In fact Paul Castellano had no interest in ever "making" Demeo in thr first place. Despite the money oy eraned Paul thought he was a loose cannon. The only reason Demeo was finally made was because he helped create a partnetship between the Westies and Gambinos which made Paul a great deal of money

I would say Demeo was probably given the respect of a capo weather he was or not, despite rank...I don't think many would disagree !!!

i would i don't like your opinions

Well we can agree to disagree then, because other wiseguys have been caught on tape speaking in awe of him...A couple were the Gotti brothers talking on a bug how many guy's he's killed and when given the contract Gotti Bddied up to him, but never made a move...That's respect !!

A bug in a social club of a colombo capo picked him up saying after learning of Demeo's death that he had ''iron cast balls''

They don't speak of the john veasey's of the world like that !!!

Sorry if my opinions offend you, but i don't think any of them were made at you !!!

your talking like a man who has done no research...demeo was not even cared for by his own boss...so why would anyone respect him or treat him as a capo...people feared him but not respected.

His boss feared him....his colleagues all respected him..I suggest you do more research young fella !!

yeah they had so much respect that they shot him....

Yeah because Castelanno feared him...That means to you he wasn't treated with the respect of a capo ??

Do you know how many capo's have been killed over the years ???

Demeo was part of Castelanno's ''white collar wing'' right ??? What did Neil Delacroce from the ''blue collar wing'' think about him...Have you researched ???

ive researched everything...auto theft drugs kiddy porn and murder for hire is not white collar stuff

Neil wasnt in "awe" of him. neil did have a lot of respect for Sammy Gravano which impressed Gotti

Perhaps if Roy had been part of the Dellacroce faction, he wouldn't have been the cowboy that he was.
Dellacroce would have kept him in line

I believe it was in Murder Machine where Gaggi told DeMeo that since he wasn't Sicilian that he'd never get above the rank of soldier in the Gambino Family.

Yup that was in Murder Machine

Gotti wasn't Sicilian

True. Neil was a major factor in gotti's career. In fact many FBI aganets have said without Neil Gotti probably never would have been made. In fact paul castellano only made him "acting" capo of the Bergin crew for a long time

I wonder who was the capo of the crew in 1982 think nino was in jail and Paul wanted him whacked says Sam the bull. It was a crew of old timers guess it was nino call to say who was acting capo when he wasn't around. But demeo was probably not in good standing in 1982 or maybe not what yr did he and he's guys get indicted for the stolen cars? He got whacked Jan 1983. He had his button for about 5 6 yrs. His house was off the chain. Probably worth 2 million today. On the water; roman pillars in ground pool. He was a money maker.

Gotti was a Neapolitan hence his flamboyant and violent attitude

DeMeo was a skillful hitman and a good earner. Violence or money-making are the two main ways to get recognized and go places in the Mob. He wouldn't have had time for a day-job.

Anthony was no joke!

Anthony was a scary mobster

was there any photos of the demeo murder ? I know theres the picture of the chandelier on top of him in his caddy but I mean an actual picture of him with bullet holes ?

yeah i'm looking for that too. i've googled like crazy, no luck so far.

It could have been possible that they lured him by insinuating that he was going to be made capo when they clipped him.

Doubtful. Nino Gaggi was Roy's captain. At at time(January 1983) Neil was still underboss so Roy woulndt have been promoted. Also Roy knew that Big Paul didnt reall like him. Hell Roy practically had to give the Westies to Paul in order to be made

Hi, new to the site just wanted to say that this site is very interesting and informative. They found roy's body in the parking lot of Varuna Boat Club Sheepshead Bay Bk. His leather jacket symbolically was wrapped around his head frozen in a pool of blood. An autopsy report showed that his liver was severely damaged from alcohol abuse. It's unusual that the report showed he had cirrhosis of the liver because after years of operating the Gemini Lounge he was rarely seen with a drink in his hand.

in the book for the sins of my father albert said there was a bullet hole in roys hand as a natural reaction to shield his face,i wonder if roy had the feeling he was going to be clipped ?

you mean the assassin shot roy pointblank in his face? that makes sense, roy using his hand to cover his face. goosebump moment!

You should read "Sins of the father" by Roy's son Albert. Albert States Roy knew he was gonna get clipped for a few months. Finally he asked Alert never to seek retribution when he fnally did get killed. He hugged Albert and left his personal possessions behind as well as a mass card.

did Al Pacino scene in Donnie Brasco inspired by this?