Gregory was born to first generation emigrants from the impoverished village of Motta (Lorenzaga di Motta di Livenza), located to the south of Tyrol. A career criminal, Scarpa was a Caporegime in the Colombo crime family, as well as the proprietor of the Wimpy Boys Social Club. Scarpa was involved in gambling, loansharking, extortion, narcotics and murder. Many of the highest ranking members of the Colombo crime family today were members of his crew.[1]
Gregory Scarpa was an FBI informer for three decades. Scarpa's son, Gregory Scarpa Jr., has claimed that Scarpa had illegal dealings with his FBI agent, Lindley DeVecchio, in which DeVecchio would receive cash, jewelry, and other gifts. According to Scarpa Jr.'s account, DeVecchio would in return then provide information to Scarpa that was used to kill people who had fallen out of favor with the Colombo family. Scarpa Jr. was himself an FBI informant and in prison at the time he made the allegations; DeVecchio has officially been cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department.[2]
In a Brooklyn court in 2007, the former girlfriend of Scarpa testified that at the request of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover,[3] Scarpa was paid by the FBI to force a Klansman into revealing the burial site of three slain civil rights workers in the Southern United States. Allegedly, Scarpa flew to Mississippi, where an FBI agent handed him some money and a gun. Scarpa tracked down a Klansman (Lawrence Byrd) who sold TVs and bought a set from him before forcing him to reveal the location of the graves at gunpoint.[4]
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