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Gregory Scarpa Sr. (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994), nicknamed the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter, was an American caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI.
22 wrz 2024 · Gregory Scarpa Sr. allegedly killed more than 50 people as a Colombo family hitman, earning the nickname "The Grim Reaper" — but he was also an FBI informant.
20 lis 1994 · The exposure of Mr. Scarpa's double life has cast a rare spotlight on the F.B.I.'s shadowy dealings with a major mob informer who committed murders and other violent crimes while presumably...
8 wrz 2020 · While on house arrest, two Lucchese mobsters threatened Scarpa’s son Joey over a drug deal. Greg Scarpa and Joey drove over to the house of one of the mobster’s and the elder Scarpa shot the...
This killing was the one that earned him the Grim Reaper nickname. The cost of the war had a crippling effect on the Colombo Family and their position as a viable mafia family. A dozen people were killed, 80 members and associates were sent to prison.
17 sie 2015 · In March 1962 law enforcement arrested Scarpa for armed robbery. If convicted he would serve a lengthy prison sentence which would certainly cripple his growing empire.
14 lut 2024 · Greg Scarpa, a feared mobster in the Brooklyn scene, snagged the nickname “the Grim Reaper,” and boy, did he live up to it. His mix of power, smarts, and sheer meanness not only kept him from a perp walk for ages but also gave his victims a real chill with the eerie “666” he’d drop on their pagers.
