Episode 229- Colombo Mobster Joseph "Joe Caves" Competiello

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we delve into Colombo mobster and eventual government informant Joseph "Joey Caves" Competiello. In the first 15 minutes or so, we discuss some Mob news including the recent death of Patriarca boss Carmen DiNunzio, as well as a recent arrest at the San Gennaro Feast.

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Jeff Nadu is an American Mafia and organized crime researcher, podcaster and content creator. He has worked at Barstool Sports and was hired personally by Dave Portnoy. His podcast "The Sitdown" with Jeff Nadu has put out hundreds of biographies on various mobsters, gangsters and criminals. He's also personally interviewed mobsters like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Dom Cicale, Anthony Ruggiano Jr, Gene Borrello and others as well as US Prosecutor John Gleeson and FBI Agents Joaquin "Jack" Garcia and Michael Campi. He has been personally endorsed by former Gambino mob captain Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo, esteemed author RJ Roger, and former Colombo Crime Family captain Michael Franzese.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History podcast.
0:15.0	Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo.
0:20.0	What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo.
0:25.6	What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down.
0:27.4	I am your host, Jeff Nadeau.
0:31.1	This is episode 229 of the podcast.
0:33.6	As always, if you're enjoying what we're doing,
0:39.2	please make sure you leave us a five-star rating and a review. I hope everybody's having a great week. It is in the middle of September, getting closer and closer to fall. A lot going
0:45.3	on right now in my world. But we're here yet another show, another sit down. Today we got some news
0:53.0	to get into. We had a death to report.
0:55.2	Pretty big one in the American mafia.
0:57.8	I also want to talk about an arrest recently at the San Giro Feast, which shows us that the mob is still around, at least at San Gennaro.
1:07.6	We know the mob is still around in general.
1:10.1	I've talked kind of widely about know the mob is still around in general. I've talked kind of widely about how
1:13.1	the mob is still making money. There's still five families, you know, that sort of thing. But
1:17.8	the Sanjano feast is still an option for them in terms of making money. And that was shown
1:24.1	recently. We're also going to talk today about a mob informant that maybe you've not heard of.
1:32.1	Obviously, we've heard of so many, and we've done shows on so many.
1:35.2	However, today's you may not have heard of.
1:38.3	We're going to talk about a Colombo mob informant called Joey Caves, Compitello.
1:43.8	Before we do that, though, I do want to get into some news.
1:46.8	We had a death that came over the wire last night, September 21st, 2025. According to sources
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