I'm trying to remember a gangster, I think from Philly in the early 80's but could be confused. He was recorded beating the hell out of a guy, but at trial testified that he was only yelling at the guy and "slapping a leather sofa for emphasis."

Thanks for any help.

Not sure who the guy was that you're talking about,but here's a good story about John Veasey,a Philly thug who ratted on John Stanfa. Incidentally his brother Billy Veasey was killed because of it.
Billy Veasey was doing construction work in a bar and overheard a rival mobster named “Joe Fudge” bragging that he was going to kill John Veasey. Billy called to warn his little brother. “I’ll handle it,” John assured him. He decided to make an example out of Joe Fudge. It didn’t matter to John that Joe Fudge was Frank Martines’s cousin.
Veasey told a mobster pal to bring Joe Fudge over to his house, because he was under house arrest and had to be home when his parole officer called. When Joe Fudge showed up, he found Veasey inside waiting, with a power drill hooked up to a 50-foot cord. “I started slapping him with the drill,” Veasey says, “and asking, ‘Do you want to kill me?’”
Veasey had a paddle tip on his power drill that yanked out big chunks of Joe Fudge’s hair. Veasey also whacked Joe Fudge in the knees with a baseball bat. The phone rang; it was an automated call from the probation department. Veasey took the phone in one hand and used the other to keep drilling Joe Fudge. Meanwhile, the parole officer, whose spiel was pre-recorded, asked Veasey to repeat the names of American states in a precise order to prove it was John Veasey live on the phone, and not some recording. “Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,” Veasey repeated while he drilled Joe Fudge.
After Veasey hung up, he kept drilling Joe Fudge.  “I did his elbows first, then I did his knees. Then my drill bit broke.” Veasey handed Joe Fudge a loaded gun. “Go ahead and shoot me,” he dared. “The Devil ain’t gonna die.” But Joe Fudge was in flight mode after being tortured, so John threw the bleeding mobster out on the street.
The next day, Veasey’s parole officer played back the automated interview. She was shocked to hear buzzing and screaming, so she called Veasey to ask: “What’s all that noise in the background?”
Veasey explained he’d been using an electric dildo on Lorraine, his wife.

Now that's one sick story with one funny ending! Never heard that one before.

From the early 80s in philly. Sounds like it could be Anthony DiPasquale possibly

Never heard that Veasey story in such detail.
Thanks!

If I'm not mistaken,an early Scarfo Sr. member named "Sam the barber" was somewhere involved in this scenario,or I could b getting it mixed up w/ something simular.