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Wtc93 bombing mob spy gets 40yr term { May 9 1999 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/41254539.html http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/41254539.html MOBSTER GETS 40-YEAR TERM New York Daily News; New York; May 9, 1999; JERRY CAPECI; Copyright Daily News, L.P. May 9, 1999 Colombo family mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr., who claimed he had spied for the FBI, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a judge who rejected his plea for leniency. Brooklyn Federal Judge Reena Raggi on Friday dismissed Scarpa's year of spying against World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef while they were prison mates as insignificant at best and more likely "part of a scam." At trial, Scarpa testified he alerted the FBI to plots to kill a judge and a prosecutor and described how he used a 2-inch spy camera to photograph bomb formulas that Yousef slipped through the cracks in the wall of his cell. Scarpa, 47, admitted being inducted into the Mafia, but testified that his father, Greg Sr., a Colombo capo who was a top-echelon FBI informer for 30 years, had committed all the crimes in his son's six- count indictment. Scarpa Jr. was acquitted of five murders, but convicted of murder conspiracy, loansharking, bookmaking and tax fraud. Declaring his mob-related testimony perjury and calling Scarpa "from start to the last a criminal," Raggi ruled that the sentence would be consecutive with one for a racketeering conviction in 1988. Scarpa would be released in 2033. Before trial, he turned down a plea deal that carried a 17-year sentence. [Illustration] Caption: NO DEAL: Gregory Scarpa Jr.'s claims of spying for FBI were scoffed at by judge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.

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