conopizza....I could be very wrong here, but, I don't think pistone knew about scarpa when he was under, but, if he was undercover in the columbo family with scarpa, and he knew about scarpa.
would he let scarpa get away with murder?
Based on what we know I think that's right: Pistone wouldn't have known about Scarpa and I'm pretty sure he doesn't mention him in any of the books. Whereas Pistone does have that one glancing encounter with Carmine Persico, he's in car with Jilly (I think, might have been someone else) and that person was meeting Carmine on 3rd Avenue & Carroll St in Brooklyn (Gowanus neighborhood, edge of Persico stomping grounds, then very Italian and even with one Italian social club and one long 'associated' restaurant remaining today).
And of course it was safer for Pistone NOT to know & vice-versa, I just wonder how much oversight there was and, if he'd stayed, if he could have accidentally gotten caught up in the Columbo's homicidal madness.
