Anthony Casso -- Possible Release?

I was doing some research on a few Philly guys (and several other jailed mobsters) using the Federal Bureau of Prisons website to check out current locations and release dates. While doing so, I threw in a couple of other names just for the hell of it and am wondering if I possibly stumbled across something.

To be honest, I don't know much (if anything) about the federal prison system, so that's why I'm asking the question here and I'll try to explain as best as I can. In the BOP system, RRM stands for Residential Re-Entry Management (a halfway house). When most guys get to the end of their sentences, they are released from the federal prison and placed into a local halfway house (RRM). Like I said, I was checking out a few Philly guys to check up on their release dates (not that most of you care about these guys, but I'm using them as examples):

Martin Angelina (set to be officially released 7/11/2015) entered a halfway house for the final 6 months of his sentence and is currently located at Philadelphia RRM

'Chickie' Ciancaglini (set to be officially released 5/4/2015) also entered the halfway house for the final 6 months of his sentence and is also located at Philadelphia RRM

Joey Merlino (set to be officially released 5/3/2015) left federal prison and placed into halfway house for the final few weeks of his sentence, located at Miami RRM

Link for the Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator:
http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/

To get to the point, I did the same exact search for Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso. I've done this same search a few different times over the years and it's showed the various prisons that he was located at. When I did the search today, it's now showing that Casso is located at Minneapolis RRM, a halfway house.

Here's a screenshot I took of the page:
(you can do the same search from the inmate locator)


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For the guys who know more about this life and the prison system than I do, is there any reason other than an upcoming release why someone would be placed in a halfway house? Possibly for a transfer to another prison? But in my eyes that really wouldn't make much sense. Why would someone who has a LIFE sentence be in a halfway house? I read an article recently (it was from 2009) that said Casso was being treated for a cancer at a prison hospital. Is it possible that Gas is on borrowed time and the feds are going to allow him to live out the last few remaining years of his life from outside the walls, or am I just reading too much into nothing?

The BOP site is very unreliable, especially where rats are concerned. Casso could be anywhere from a prison hospital to an Army base to God knows where.

Good post, KING.

Is Casso in the WPP? I figured he was tossed.

Wow I remember checking his name like a week ago or so.. I had just found out about the BOP website and was looking up random names like you. Casso was in ADX Florence I'm almost sure, so this could have happened the last couple of days.

Again, it's a very unreliable site. Especially where rats are concerned.

As I posted elsewhere Casso is in a North Dakota (or was it Nebraska? One of those, I can dig it up) maximum security state pen.

I think of the BOP.gov locator as being quite reliable but I am used to navigating it's various quirks. It's rather user friendly compared to some locators.

Another example of this situation (last I checked anyway) is Buford Furrow. If you wanted to write either one you could use the RRM address and they will get the mail. Which is a bit strange for the BOP as they are horrible about forwarding mail but in this case I guess it's on them for giving it as their location.

I can't see him ever getting out, he caused to much trouble on the cops, all the murders he was involved in, unreilable informant , his plot to have a judge killed, his escape plan to leave the witness protection jail they had him locked up in NYC in,

Amuso not leaving his prison cell , was a funny story , the guards on payroll , had everything setup so he could escape, and he wouldn't get up off his bed , cause he thought Casso was going to have him killed,

yeah, on his 60 minute interview, a lady D.A. says he wanted to kill a federal judge. this guy is a real sociopath.
they can't let this freak out.

I would think the feds give him a phone call to pick his brain every once in a blue so they probaly do have him at a camp no fences. They probaly wanted to know everything he knows about crew and casso ain't dumb he wants lo security. Couple years back he was trying to find hydells body against the mafia cops.

No they have him in a state pen. Serving his life sentence for those wondering in this thread.

Based on his behavior in attempting to be a rat I would have to say that yes, Casso is dumb.

Glad to settle this debate. Don't say I never did nothing for you comrades. 8-19

You write to Casso?

Just to exchange Tiramisu recipes and talk about Mad Men.

Finally.....something actually kind of funny. Thank you moe.

No. So you should have saved the eye rolling.

It really doesn't seem that he will ever get out, and shouldn't. I just feel bad for his widow for what she put up with especially after he was imprisoned.

I had a phase of feeling sorry for his wife but fuck it.

She had family members in that life. She knew who Anthony Casso was when she married him. She knew, deep down, that there would have been no sprawling mansion, no exotic cars, no caviar and no fancy restaurants if her husband didn't have blood on his hands.

Sell your soul to the devil.....

Looking at the way Gotti's family conduct themselves, the way Gravano's family conduct themselves, the way Massino's family conduct themselves.... we aren't talking about shrinking violets here.

i graduated 11 grade i dont know where the fuck noth dakota is

exactly.. those people take the blood money, and bask in the glory when they are on top, fully knowing whats what.

and then when things go wrong, they act like they were in the dark about where all the money came from.

they get no sympathy from me, all the gottis, and gravanos shpuld be locked up.

Yeah Binnie, but, I said before and I'll say it again..... I'd do everything to karen gravano.

Do you enjoy the getting AIDS or hep part? Or more the fat thing?

Lol, I think boarder line fat thing. I'm not really sure tho, tbh. Something about her.

they will never let him out, maybe when he is 95% dead than they will let him die in freedom and they will never tell the exact place where he is snitches get stitches

I still gotta hand it to Casso, for that last line in his biography on Mobsters...I spent 40 years in the street with the worst F------g people and we always kept our word on a handshake...The govt. on a handshake, forget about it !! lol

even though he was a crazy sob,I think he's a likeable Guy..I love his sense of humor.he wanted to clip his neighbor for his backyard not being level or some crazy shit like that.

lol

I hope he lives to be a hundred and never gets the fuck out. I've stated here many times that I detest Casso because of what happened to Mikey Salerno. But if you want to get technical, the Feds fucked him over. There's no two ways about it.

things got way too outta hand with Vic and gas.especially when they tried clipping women.that's a head shaker.

My favorite crazy story from him:

Him, Amuso, Gotti and Gravano are walking through an empty parking lot on their way to meet the Chin for a commission meeting and he says "wow, this would be a great place for a hit."

LMAO I hear ya bro.

My 2nd cousin was stationed on the air force base in Grand Forks (on the ND/MN state line pretty much) and he was a mechanic on a 707 refueler so they were outside even in winter. It would get to -20 or -30 (actual temp) and the wind chill would double that. He said the air force had to give them classes on how quick they could suffer from frost bite if they left any part of their body unexposed. I think it was less than a minute at those temps.

Then he said during the summers the mosquitoes were as big around as your arm and it was flat as hell up there.

Not a Chance in hell that he gets out. Do you think would go back to his old ways? I do.

real deal sociopath.

Not a ton of people know this Casso still has a standing $1 million bounty on his head. The contract was offered to the AB (yes just like the Gotti contracts)...good look collecting on it though...I mean any high profile rat will be protected but prison officials know about the AB contract so they have even more incentive to protect him.

Oh they definitely screwed him..Double crossers ?? Isn't that what guys like Casso are proud of being ?? You reap what you sow !!

I don't care what the BOP site says...there is no shot in hell at Casso ever seeing a free day for the rest of miserable life

Remember when he smacked some guy with a rolled up newspaper and got the sh*t kicked out of him?

Any wonder the feds screwed him.

If his rap sheet didn't convince them what a liability to society he would be if he was released, then his flagrant flouting of rules and etiquette when he was under their noses would have.

The Scarpa kid fairly did a number on Amuso's face when he beat him up that time. There is something weird about Amuso's jaw in the jailhouse pics. He looks in good shape physically but his jaw looks like it has been badly broken or something - which could also explain why he's/was in good shape.

BOP site is fairly accurate, but not 100%. Especially where rats are concerned.

http://breakshotblog.blogspot.ie/2013/10/anthony-dilapi.html

Victor Amuso, known as Vic, was a heroin dealer who back in 1977 had been caught with 3 pounds of the drugs alongside his best friend Anthony Casso, who was also known as Gaspipe, or Gas. He was known as Gaspipe because his father used to install gaspipes in homes so people could get free natural gas from the city that wasn’t metered. His, son, who helped him, became known as Gaspipe, a name which he hated. In reality, he should have just been known as “pipe” because for years, the word on the street was that he was smoking crack. To demonstrate how crazy Gaspipe was, while locked up he tried to bribe a guard to help him escape, and when that failed, he then put together a team that was going to attack the transport van taking him to court and his idea was for his guys to murder all the guards in the van with him. When the other families caught wind of his plan, they put a stop to it immediately, they could not accept the amount of heat this would draw to all the crime families.

That true?

What pics are you talking about?.....Only pic I have seen of Amuso in jail is the one with him and Scarfo. Scarfo's arm is around Vic but Vic has the, I wanna whack this guy for putting his hands on me look.
If you have others, I would love to see them.



I never heard this and don't doubt it's truth BUT, I wonder who would be the one to pay out if the mission was accomplished?......Cannot see the Lucchese family dropping $1,000,000 for someone that will die slowly in jail.

The same ghosts who would pay the half-million dollar bounty that's allegedly still on Joe Pistone's head (like it was ever there to begin with).

But Old Joe better keep wearing those sunglasses. Especially when he has camera crews following him up and down Mulberry Street (where there are more fags than wiseguys today ).

And I didn't mean to derail the thread. But whenever I have a chance to take a shot at Pistone and those silly sunglasses I just can't help myself.

Donnie Brasco the jewel thief that nobody knows