“Civil service workers.” He means civil rights workers. Reminds me of that Sopranos episode - “he killed 16 Czechoslovakians - the guy was an interior decorator!”
Yea once they add some helicopter crashes a chase seen a few shootouts a bus that has to stay above 50 or it will blow up. I don't know might be a little much.
In the summer of 1964, according to Schiro and other sources, FBI field agents in Mississippi recruited Scarpa to help them find missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. The FBI was convinced the three men had been murdered, but could not find their bodies. The agents thought that Scarpa, using illegal interrogation techniques not available to agents, might succeed at gaining this information from suspects. ~ Once Scarpa arrived in Mississippi, local agents allegedly provided him with a gun and money to pay for information. Scarpa and an agent allegedly pistol-whipped and kidnapped Lawrence Byrd, a TV salesman and secret Klansman, from his store in Laurel and took him to Camp Shelby, a local Army base. At Shelby, Scarpa severely beat Byrd and stuck a gun barrel down his throat. Byrd finally revealed to Scarpa the location of the three men's bodies. The FBI has never officially confirmed the Scarpa story. Though not necessarily contradicting the claim of Scarpa's involvement in the matter, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell and Illinois high school teacher Barry Bradford claimed that Mississippi highway patrolman Maynard King provided the grave locations to FBI agent Joseph Sullivan after obtaining the information from an anonymous third party.
Because the three college aged kids bodies were across state lines it made it a federal case and the local judges and police couldn’t corrupt the case. The young men were actually registering blacks to vote.
Oy vey! And then the FBI sends one of their murderous mob goons from half a country away to go on a rampage and make whitey accept their morally superior way of life.
I won't say his name but... his first name is Lynn and beat the case lol... oh yeah and he wrote a book and several Netflix Doc-u-ment-aries lmao. Great interview
Lin DeVecchio. Reminds of something Larry said about how the first time he saw Greg, he looked like the picture you’d see if you searched the word “gangster” in the dictionary. Likewise, if you looked up “corruption”, it would be a picture of DeVecchio. Dude was the definition of a corrupt cop. Boggles my mind how he escaped prison.
The book "Deal With The Devil" isnt Lynn's book, Lynn wrote "We're Gonna Win This Thing" lol basically saying yeah I did it. Havent read Lynn's book, but Deal With The Devil is really good. Greg Scarpa is so fascinating to me for some reason. Even though he was an informant, he was so successful in the street. He was a true Machiavellian Mafioso!
So Lynn’s “We’re Gonna Win This Thing!” Is basically OJ’s “If I Did It”(then the Goldman family added ‘Confessions of the Killer’&made the ‘If’ smaller&harder to see after the won the rights to it in federal court) rofl
My uncle is Italian and I can listen to him for hours just like this guy. There's something about Italian men and their storytelling that just glues me in and it could be about anything and I would still be listening. 😂
I’d love to know how the mob then compares to gangs in America now as to crimes against non made men or civilians as todays gangs call people that aren’t in the life. I feel like their were rules vs now their simply doesn’t seem to be any. Anyone alive then and now lemme know por favor.
No, I haven't seen it. Tell everyone what it's about for those that don't know, like me... Seriously how is this no nothing kid interviewing mobsters??
Great interview!! This is how they should be done, ask the guest a question and put them in the direction you want them to go and listen. Not like these other people trying to act like they know more about the topic then they do or constantly cutting them off... Awesome job.
Unless you’re in the shit with him , Larry seems like a reasonable, likeable bloke & Scarpa’s Deep South mission would make a good movie ‘Bada Bang in Mississippi’
Ha. He was seduced into the dark side. That's funny. My mom was a Latin queen and my dad was in a 1 percent club so I was seduced into the ganglife I guess. Cause I followed my mom's footsteps but now I'm grown and got kids of my own but keep that away from them that's for sure.
Was this even mentioned in the actual movie (Mississippi-Burning/great flick) about Scarpo..?,...i don't recall Gene Hackman portraying Scarpo......*hmm*..?
