Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was the chief enforcer for Colombo Crime Family boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa was responsible for committing three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed a minimum of 50 murders from the early 1950s through 1992. As well as being an FBI informant, he was involved in illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, hijacking, counterfeit credit cards, assault, stock and bond thefts, narcotics and was a stone-cold killer, but to his daughter Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father. What it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought.
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ISBN: 9781628998573
ISBN: 1628998571
Physical Description:319 pages.
Edition:Center Point large print edition.
Publisher:Thorndike, Maine :Center Point Large Print,2016.
General Note: LSC 55.06
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