To the federal government, Gerald Hector Scarpelli was a psychopathic career criminal, a mob hit man and thief who had been involved in 10 gangland killings. According to Scarpelli, organized crime is not a generous employer. The bosses do very well, but the workers, people like himself, he said, get only scraps.

Federal agents who spent months secretly eavesdropping on his conversations, then questioning him for hours after his arrest, determined that Scarpelli`s rewards apparently weren`t much, the documents indicate. His mob paycheck, for example, was only about $2,000 a month, and he earned it collecting protection money known as ”street taxes” from suburban bookmakers and vice rings, which he gave to his bosses.


Most of the cash, he said, went to his bosses, named in the documents as Joseph Ferriola, Ernest ”Rocky” Infelice and Sam Carlisi.


https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/05/15/mobsters-life-wasnt-one-for-the-movies/