Episode 12: Gregory "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On the 12th episode of the Sit Down, Jeff and BlackJack get into the wild life of Greg Scarpa. There aren't many people in the Mafia that have had a more interesting life than Scarpa. He made his way into becoming a made man in the Colombo Crime Family, then became a confidential FBI informant all while killing people and ascending to becoming a capo in the family. Ultimately a greedy mistake would take his health away and cost him his life. As always thanks for listening and if you enjoy the show, please give us a deserved rating and leave us a comment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	Welcome to The Sit Down. A Mafia History Podcast. Here's your host, Jeff, NATO.
1:20.0	What's up everybody, and welcome into The Sit Down. A Mafia History Podcast.
1:25.0	We are back better than ever, another week, another show, another sit down.
1:29.0	We get a great topic for you, Plant, today. Another very interesting individual we're going to talk about.
1:36.0	And I'll tell you, you know, we save this seeming like every week, just because there are so many compelling interesting figures in the mob and in mob history.
1:45.0	But I got to tell you, I'm not sure if there's a more, what's the word I'm looking for?
1:51.0	I guess interesting, because I do think Greg Scarpa is a fascinating individual.
1:56.0	I think he had a wildly interesting life, and he kind of threaded the needle through multiple levels of cosonostra and with the FBI.
2:05.0	And, you know, he kind of reminds me a bit of like some avoidable your story, we'll get to.
2:13.0	But it's an interesting one, and we're going to go through his entire life. We're going to talk about some really interesting things that went on and really.
2:20.0	If you heard the person go show, this will help you a lot because car mine and Greg were close.
2:26.0	Greg was a loyalist to car mine, and we'll definitely bring his name up. But let's bring in our coast. As always, we are back.
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