NEW YORK, KOMPAS.com – Ex mafia Lucchese, Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso, who have thirst for blood died behind bars after catching her corona virus.
Casso was the man behind dozens of gang murders and even hired two New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives as mobsters. killer.
Mafia The 78-year-old who was denied release last month has now died on Tuesday, according to the website of the Prison Bureau and law enforcement sources.
On November 25, Casso’s lawyers wrote a statement to the judge explaining that their client had been infected Covid-19 while serving a sentence lifetime at the United States Penitentiary, Tuscon.
Launch New York Post On Wednesday (16/12/2020), lawyers also said that Casso, who is in a wheelchair, had many health problems before he contracted the coronavirus.
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Some of the diseases he has had include prostate cancer, coronary artery disease, kidney disease, hypertension, bladder disease and lung problems from years of smoking, the court letter said.
However, Brooklyn federal judge Frederic Block turned down an offer for early release, finding that “given the nature and extent of history criminal the defendant, that he remains a danger to society “.
Casso pleaded guilty to 14 mass murders in collaboration with NYPD detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa.
The two agreed with Casso that they would provide information about mafia rats to criminal families in exchange for US $ 4,000 (Rp.56.5 million) per month.
They also worked part-time as a paycheck for the Lucchese family, and were deported imprisonment lifetime in 2009 for being involved in a total of 8 mobs.
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One investigator covering the Casso case described him as a “savage homicide maniac who enjoys murder.”
Even among the mafia, Casso was known as a “murderous maniac”, according to the testimony of Burton Kaplan, who served as an intermediary between Casso and the mafia police.
Born in South Brooklyn in 1942, Casso was raised in a criminal environment.
His godfather is reportedly Salvatore Callinbrano, a capo in the Genovese crime family.
In the mid-1970s and 80s, Casso rose through the Lucchese family, serving as captain and consigliere and finally as underboss.
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Considered one of the most violent bosses of the city’s 5 crime families, Casso is believed to have killed at least 36 people.
He was indicted by the FBI in 1990, but left on the run using information from the rogue police to help him avoid arrest until 1993, when he was arrested at a safe house in Mount Olive, New Jersey.
Facing trial, Casso tries to change the informant, and as previously revealed 1994, calls two retired policemen the contract killers of the mob.
As part of the plea deal, Casso collected 72 charges on a number of charges relating to mobs, fraud, extortion and murder.
His question and answer session was said to be “very colorful, with former mafia bosses providing detailed accounts of the chaos and murders,” according to the report New York Post.
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“Every story usually asks the FBI to ask Casso, ‘So what happened?’ to which Casso bluntly replied, ‘We killed him of course.’
However, Casso was removed from the witness protection program in 1998, after prosecutors accused him of a series of offenses, such as bribing prison guards, assaulting rival mafia inmates and providing false information.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of a conditional release.
In a 2006 letter to New York Post, he railed against the FBI, complaining that he wanted to be a witness in a mob police trial.
“As usual, the FBI underestimated my cooperation,” he complained.
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