SIGNS: Former Mob Boss May Be Most Devastating Informant
Here's an interesting Article and Psychic Reading regarding Davis that showcases Psychological Behavior:
It's also to command the respect of the Mafia and the Criminal World. I understand the way it works. As a matter of fact, people might be shocked that I actually understand intimately how the Family works.
Ma/F-IA = Mother(Ma) V/IR-Go(F/6/6th Sign) I o' WA(IA)
I'm the Ma/F-IA. That's why Davis is so dumb when he doesn't think and doesn't realize how he's playing with Fire when he dicks around with me.
I'm just like the Godfather and I count on the Subconscious Minds to carry out orders and edicts just like the Mafia. That's why Marlon Brando as the Godfather Vito Corleone is Superman's Father.
I know I'm guilty of the same thing as Crime Lords. The only thing I say to the people in Organized Crime is that as long as they understand when they get caught, they get caught (unless they beat the rap). If they got caught, it's because there's some purpose or reason.
Aside from that, I take the position of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." As long as I haven't seen it, then it's Legal.
There are are so many dirty things I do in the Psychic Realm that go over people's heads because they aren't paying attention. People can condemn me for being a P-IR/At-E, but some of those sneaky things I've done fiddling with the Software Program were necessary.
When you're a One-Man Army and you don't have anyone on your side watching your back, you have to compromise some of your Ethics and Principles to survive.
It's like they say in the movie "S.W.A.T.":
"There are times when doing the Right thing isn't doing the Right Thing."
As they say in "Pirates of the Caribbean," tthey're not Rules, they're more like "Guidelines." I set up GUIDELINES. There are times where you have to bend the Rules. It's just simply set there to give people direction.
Should everyone break the Rules whenever they see fit?
No.
If one person does it, then everyone will start copying. That's why you need to have Rules enforce to deter people from exercising their right to bend the Rules all the time and abuse the Privilege.
However, there are times where you really have to break the Rules because in the Long Run it's the right the thing to do regardless of the outcome and you let people judge you later. Failure to act can be just as bad.
Former Mob Boss May Be Most Devastating Informant
By LARRY McSHANE, AP
Former Genovese crime family boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, above, is just one Mafia figure whom informant Alphonse D'Arco has helped bring to justice.
NEW YORK (May 29) - The killers put the dead canary in the freezer. Later, their work finished, they placed the bird inside the mouth of the equally deceased Bruno Facciola.
The August 1990 mob hit followed a tip from two corrupt NYPD detectives that the Luchese family capo had turned government informant. Facciola was stabbed, shot through both eyes and shot again in the head. Then came the bird. Message: Speak no evil.
The slaying was orchestrated by a diminutive thug known to fellow Mafiosi as "Little Al." Few embraced the mob ethos more fervently than Alphonse D'Arco, a hard case from the cradle.
"I was a man when I was born," Little Al once bragged. He committed every crime except pimping and pornography, which he deemed beneath his dignity. Murders? He committed eight while rising through the Luchese ranks.
He especially despised informants. "Rats," he'd spit. He did a three-year heroin rap without opening his yap. So when word came that Facciola was singing, D'Arco arranged for his demise.
And for the canary.
Four months later, D'Arco became the Luchese boss, though not for long. His reign abruptly ended, but not in the fashion he expected: on the wrong end of a jury verdict. Or maybe a bullet.
Instead, D'Arco - disgusted by the loss of mob honor, double-crossed by men he had respected - became in 1991 what he most abhorred: a rat.
And not just any rat. Over the last 15 years, he has brought down mob bosses, underbosses, consiglieres. And he's still making inmates out of ex-accomplices today.
Little Al may be the most devastating mob informant ever.
Alphonse D'Arco, born July 28, 1932, grew up near the Brooklyn Navy Yards, a neighborhood of heavyweight mobsters _ some his relatives. His childhood, D'Arco once recalled, was "like being in the forest and all the trees were the dons and the organized crime guys."
He walked into the woods without hesitation.
Two tenets of the old-school Mafia appealed to him: Loyalty and honor. Both extended into his personal life.
In 1951, during the Korean War, D'Arco volunteered for the Army, served two years and received an honorable discharge. When he returned to Brooklyn and the mob, he found a wife; they remain married to this day. They had five children.
In 1959, D'Arco first met future Luchese family boss Vittorio Amuso. He was soon making money for the Lucheses in a variety of ways: Hijacking. Drug dealing. Burglary. Counterfeiting. Arson. Armed robbery.
D'Arco became a made man in a ceremony held in a Bronx kitchen. "I should burn like this paper if I betray anyone in this room," he swore. It was Aug. 23, 1982. He was particularly good with dates, as federal investigators would learn.
D'Arco had long ago resolved the differences between mob life and straight society. As John Q. Citizen, D'Arco would have lived by the rules. As Alphonse D'Arco, mobster, he would abide by the Mafia's code. He obeyed orders and his elders, kicked money up to the bosses. He never cooperated with law enforcement.
But an erosion of mob values was under way.
Henry Hill was a Luchese associate and a cocaine dealer. Once arrested, he became the most notorious Mafia turncoat of the 1980s. His testimony helped put away D'Arco's capo, Paulie Vario, in 1984.
Hill's life was eventually turned into the classic mob movie, "GoodFellas." D'Arco stayed in "The Life," and became Vario's replacement.
D'Arco's old friend Amuso soon became the head of the family, and his underboss was another pal, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso.
The mob world was good for D'Arco. He had about $1 million in loan-sharking money spread around, and ran his own crew. The family hierarchy relied on him to handle important business - labor unions, racketeering, murder.
"He grew up in the life. It was something that he wanted, and succeeded at," said former federal prosecutor George Stamboulidis.
D'Arco wore shirts with big "wiseguy" collars, and lived in an apartment in Little Italy. The market rent was $1,200 a month; he paid $200.
A few months after they exposed Bruno Facciola, the two crooked detectives provided Casso with a new bit of information: the underboss and Amuso were targeted for arrest. On Jan. 9, 1991, the pair met with Little Al at a Brooklyn bar, where Amuso pronounced him acting boss of the Lucheses.
Then Amuso and Casso disappeared.
During eight eye-opening months as boss, D'Arco's blind allegiance to the mob was undermined.
From seclusion, Casso and Amuso started a whispering campaign against D'Arco among the Luchese faithful. Yet D'Arco was unconvinced of their betrayal until the night of Sept. 18, 1991, when he attended a meeting in a Manhattan hotel room.
The vibe was ugly. Longtime Luchese associates appeared unnerved. A family hit man was among the group, and D'Arco believed he was marked for death.
After bolting, he began to rethink his life. He considered going to war against the Amuso-Casso faction. But that assumed a loyalty to the Lucheses that he no longer felt, a code of honor that he no longer believed.
"So I says, `That's it,"' D'Arco explained later. "I washed my hands of the whole thing."
He sent most of his family to Hawaii for safety. D'Arco hid out while a deal was made. On Sept. 21, 1991, Alphonse D'Arco became the most unlikely cooperating witness ever recruited.
And one of the most expensive. The federal government spent more than $2 million to relocate the D'Arco clan. Little Al and six other families were moved from New York to parts unknown.
News of the stunning defection spread quickly through the underworld. An attorney was dispatched to inform jailed Gambino boss John Gotti that Little Al was switching sides.
The acting boss would testify more than a dozen times against the mob's top echelon. D'Arco was a combative and effective witness, his memory for details and dates unshakable.
Testifying at a 1996 competency hearing for Genovese family boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante, D'Arco flew into a rage. "Don't break my chops," D'Arco warned defense attorney Michael Shapiro. "I'll break yours, too."
D'Arco's testimony helped convict Gigante and Colombo boss "Little Vic" Orena; ex-cronies Amuso and Casso; Bonanno consigliere Anthony Spero; Genovese consigliere James Ida; and an assortment of others.
He spilled about corruption in the unions, the Garment District, the airports.
"D'Arco gave them great value for the money," said defense lawyer Edward Hayes. "D'Arco is a lunatic, but he has a story."
Once, in a Brooklyn courtroom, D'Arco stood before a federal judge who noted they had grown up in the same nearby neighborhood.
"Yeah," D'Arco replied. "And we both rose to the top of our professions."
Ex-prosecutor Stamboulidis said D'Arco embraced his new calling as fervently as his old.
"When he entered an agreement with the government, he answered all the questions with brutal honesty and thoroughness," said Stamboulidis, now a partner in the Manhattan firm of Baker Hostetler. "A true believer does everything 100 percent. He believes 100 percent in his current position."
In return, D'Arco was sentenced in November 2002 to time served. He was fined $50, and returned to obscurity.
While mob turncoats like Hill and Sammy "The Bull" Gravano went back to jail, D'Arco stayed on the right side of the law. And one of the biggest trials lay ahead - one that brought him back to the day when Bruno Facciola had a canary for his last meal.
It was March 2005 when federal authorities announced the indictments of Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, former NYPD detective partners turned partners-in-crime. The two were charged with taking $4,000 a month from Gaspipe Casso to work as Luchese hit men.
On occasion, they slipped the underboss inside information. They told Casso that Facciola was reportedly working as an informant, authorities charged, and Casso ordered D'Arco to handle the hit.
Little Al was called again to testify.
The ex-boss, now 73, looked more grandfatherly than Godfatherly on the stand, but his thick Brooklyn accent was unchanged by years of life outside the city.
He stood firm under withering cross-examination from Hayes and former Gotti lawyer Bruce Cutler. Caracappa and Eppolito were quickly convicted, and faced life in prison. D'Arco slipped back into the Witness Protection Program.
But there was a moment during his testimony when he recalled a less complicated time.
Cutler, his voice booming, recited a litany of perks that came D'Arco's way from his agreement to be an informant: No jail time. A new identity. An attorney, free of charge.
"That's another reward, yes?" Cutler asked.
"I don't see anything to be a reward," D'Arco responded without hesitation. "I'd trade it all to go back on Spring Street."
05/29/06 00:03 EDT
Updated: 02:29 PM EDT
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- [Alphonse D'Arco] especially despised informants. "Rats," he'd spit:
- I said 1/12/2006 that Davis is born Year of the Rat
- 1/12 = A/L = AL = "Little Al
- I said 1/12/2006 that Davis is born Year of the Rat
- He did a three-year heroin rap without opening his yap:
- I said that I've kept my mouth shut about Davis for three years
- I said Davis is pushing the envelope when it comes to Embezzlement
- I said that I've kept my mouth shut about Davis for three years
- Instead, D'Arco - disgusted by the loss of mob honor, double-crossed by men he had respected - became in 1991 what he most abhorred: a rat:
- I became a Rat
- I've been leaking in my Journal the things that Davis has been doing
- I said 3/5/2006 that Davis LAUGHED at me and said I don't do anything
- He borrowed all those loans off my mom, stiffed me with a $1,200 Delinquent Cell Phone Bill, got my Credit Cards canceled, and left me with a $20,000 Credit Card Debt I've been struggling to pay the minimum balance off of for the last three years
- I became a Rat
- Fat Rat:
- F/At = Bad(F/6/9) Superman(At/20-1/19/S)
- F/6 + L/12 = R/18
- F = Virgo or Bad
- L = Bad(L/Non-7)
- That's how you go from Fat to Rat
- F/At = Bad(F/6/9) Superman(At/20-1/19/S)
- Rice Rice Baby:
- I said I'm Superman = Diamond
- Diamond = Ice
- I said I'm Gemini
- R = Gemini(R/18/2x9/2xI/II)
- Gemini Superman = R(Gemini) + Ice(Diamond/Superman = R/Ice
- RATS feed on RICE
- Davis is born Year of the Rat, which is how you KNOW that Davis fed on me when it came to my Finances
- Those are Cute Little Tags left on Davis when he tries to come up with his own Charming Explanation and Persuasive Argument recounting HIS version of the story
- I said I'm Superman = Diamond
- Two tenets of the old-school Mafia appealed to him: Loyalty and honor. Both extended into his personal life:
- There were a lot of people that were after Davis
- If you were to post Davis' face in San Diego and Vegas, you'd get a lot of people who would recognize Davis having borrowed money from them
- Most of them would be able to vouch for the fact that he has borrowed money and has difficulty paying it back in a timely fashion
- Most people can't pin Davis on anything because he's been wise enough not to get an Signed Contracts that hold him directly liable for anything
- That's why on Legal Ground, Davis is solid. It would take a Class Action Suit to bring him down
- There were a lot of people that were after Davis
- Alphonse D'Arco became the most unlikely cooperating witness ever recruited:
- That's what happens when you mistreat people and how they'll turn on you
- Davis always has a Logical Reason for finances and delays
- There's always something that delays money and then that's the last you hear about it unless you bring it up
- Davis is always riding on Technicalities that inexperienced people fall for when it comes to negotiating payment plans
- Davis is unconsciously deceptive because he's so Charming and Friendly. His acts always start out with Good Intentions, but following through is a totally different matter
- He relies on people to come through on money for him who fail
- You can get by on two or three instances of "bad luck," but when you start talking about a string of empty promises over 7 - 12, that's a pattern
- It doesn't matter how sincere or how good your intentions are or how you really "meant to pay." The fact is that you didn't. Period. End of story
- That's what happens when you mistreat people and how they'll turn on you
- "When he entered an agreement with the government, he answered all the questions with brutal honesty and thoroughness," said Stamboulidis, now a partner in the Manhattan firm of Baker Hostetler. "A true believer does everything 100 percent. He believes 100 percent in his current position":
- It's the same thing with me
- All you have to do is just ask me and I'll tell you with brutal honesty where people like what I have to say or not
- The only reason why I tolerated Davis' antics for so long is because he was able to dangle that money he owed my mom as leverage
- When you're trying to get money back that is owed to someone, the last thing you do is badtalk them or rock the boat
- However, it's been like this for THREE YEARS now and still no results
- I would've been more patient, but Davis laughed at me when he doesn't even realize that it's my Psychic Abilities that influence his every day life
- I don't even get paid a single cent for that
- Also, he doesn't LISTEN to my Advice on what's wrong with his closing. It's like the Basketball Player who doesn't want to listen to the experienced Coach who has already DONE it
- It's the same thing with me
- "D'Arco gave them great value for the money," said defense lawyer Edward Hayes. "D'Arco is a lunatic, but he has a story":
- I'm quite aware that my story sounds farcical and way out there
- However, I said my story is ALWAYS consistent when it comes to how things unfolded
- It's hinting at the "Crazy" Tag that is linked to me
- I said 12/19/2006 about the Oddfather that the Jury declared Sane reflecting me
- I'm quite aware that my story sounds farcical and way out there
- The ex-boss, now 73, looked more grandfatherly than Godfatherly on the stand, but his thick Brooklyn accent was unchanged by years of life outside the city:
- It's the same with me
- You'd be surrprised about the crap that I know
- I know a lot of dirt on people but don't say anything
- It's reflecting my Level of Knowledge and Expertise that people dismiss
- You learn a lot from sitting and watching people
- Davis' own folly is laughing at the very person whom he was training and showing all the Tricks of the Trade that he uses
- That's why you know Davis is a bonehead for taking that much money and then laughing at the very person who keeps his mouth shut
- It also goes to show how Davis doesn't watch the things he does and how they're illegal
- Davis was once dumb enough to ask me to sign someone else's name. I told him there's a term for that. It's called FORGERY
- It's the same with me
- Updated: 02:29 PM EDT: 2/29 = Le/Ap Y-ear = Definite(Le/The-Fr./Father/PA/Pennsylvania) Mother(Ap/Non-Pa/Ma) Male(Y) Ear.
It's also to command the respect of the Mafia and the Criminal World. I understand the way it works. As a matter of fact, people might be shocked that I actually understand intimately how the Family works.
Ma/F-IA = Mother(Ma) V/IR-Go(F/6/6th Sign) I o' WA(IA)
I'm the Ma/F-IA. That's why Davis is so dumb when he doesn't think and doesn't realize how he's playing with Fire when he dicks around with me.
I'm just like the Godfather and I count on the Subconscious Minds to carry out orders and edicts just like the Mafia. That's why Marlon Brando as the Godfather Vito Corleone is Superman's Father.
I know I'm guilty of the same thing as Crime Lords. The only thing I say to the people in Organized Crime is that as long as they understand when they get caught, they get caught (unless they beat the rap). If they got caught, it's because there's some purpose or reason.
Aside from that, I take the position of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." As long as I haven't seen it, then it's Legal.
There are are so many dirty things I do in the Psychic Realm that go over people's heads because they aren't paying attention. People can condemn me for being a P-IR/At-E, but some of those sneaky things I've done fiddling with the Software Program were necessary.
When you're a One-Man Army and you don't have anyone on your side watching your back, you have to compromise some of your Ethics and Principles to survive.
It's like they say in the movie "S.W.A.T.":
"There are times when doing the Right thing isn't doing the Right Thing."
As they say in "Pirates of the Caribbean," tthey're not Rules, they're more like "Guidelines." I set up GUIDELINES. There are times where you have to bend the Rules. It's just simply set there to give people direction.
Should everyone break the Rules whenever they see fit?
No.
If one person does it, then everyone will start copying. That's why you need to have Rules enforce to deter people from exercising their right to bend the Rules all the time and abuse the Privilege.
However, there are times where you really have to break the Rules because in the Long Run it's the right the thing to do regardless of the outcome and you let people judge you later. Failure to act can be just as bad.
Former Mob Boss May Be Most Devastating Informant
By LARRY McSHANE, AP
Former Genovese crime family boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, above, is just one Mafia figure whom informant Alphonse D'Arco has helped bring to justice.
NEW YORK (May 29) - The killers put the dead canary in the freezer. Later, their work finished, they placed the bird inside the mouth of the equally deceased Bruno Facciola.
The August 1990 mob hit followed a tip from two corrupt NYPD detectives that the Luchese family capo had turned government informant. Facciola was stabbed, shot through both eyes and shot again in the head. Then came the bird. Message: Speak no evil.
The slaying was orchestrated by a diminutive thug known to fellow Mafiosi as "Little Al." Few embraced the mob ethos more fervently than Alphonse D'Arco, a hard case from the cradle.
"I was a man when I was born," Little Al once bragged. He committed every crime except pimping and pornography, which he deemed beneath his dignity. Murders? He committed eight while rising through the Luchese ranks.
He especially despised informants. "Rats," he'd spit. He did a three-year heroin rap without opening his yap. So when word came that Facciola was singing, D'Arco arranged for his demise.
And for the canary.
Four months later, D'Arco became the Luchese boss, though not for long. His reign abruptly ended, but not in the fashion he expected: on the wrong end of a jury verdict. Or maybe a bullet.
Instead, D'Arco - disgusted by the loss of mob honor, double-crossed by men he had respected - became in 1991 what he most abhorred: a rat.
And not just any rat. Over the last 15 years, he has brought down mob bosses, underbosses, consiglieres. And he's still making inmates out of ex-accomplices today.
Little Al may be the most devastating mob informant ever.
Alphonse D'Arco, born July 28, 1932, grew up near the Brooklyn Navy Yards, a neighborhood of heavyweight mobsters _ some his relatives. His childhood, D'Arco once recalled, was "like being in the forest and all the trees were the dons and the organized crime guys."
He walked into the woods without hesitation.
Two tenets of the old-school Mafia appealed to him: Loyalty and honor. Both extended into his personal life.
In 1951, during the Korean War, D'Arco volunteered for the Army, served two years and received an honorable discharge. When he returned to Brooklyn and the mob, he found a wife; they remain married to this day. They had five children.
In 1959, D'Arco first met future Luchese family boss Vittorio Amuso. He was soon making money for the Lucheses in a variety of ways: Hijacking. Drug dealing. Burglary. Counterfeiting. Arson. Armed robbery.
D'Arco became a made man in a ceremony held in a Bronx kitchen. "I should burn like this paper if I betray anyone in this room," he swore. It was Aug. 23, 1982. He was particularly good with dates, as federal investigators would learn.
D'Arco had long ago resolved the differences between mob life and straight society. As John Q. Citizen, D'Arco would have lived by the rules. As Alphonse D'Arco, mobster, he would abide by the Mafia's code. He obeyed orders and his elders, kicked money up to the bosses. He never cooperated with law enforcement.
But an erosion of mob values was under way.
Henry Hill was a Luchese associate and a cocaine dealer. Once arrested, he became the most notorious Mafia turncoat of the 1980s. His testimony helped put away D'Arco's capo, Paulie Vario, in 1984.
Hill's life was eventually turned into the classic mob movie, "GoodFellas." D'Arco stayed in "The Life," and became Vario's replacement.
D'Arco's old friend Amuso soon became the head of the family, and his underboss was another pal, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso.
The mob world was good for D'Arco. He had about $1 million in loan-sharking money spread around, and ran his own crew. The family hierarchy relied on him to handle important business - labor unions, racketeering, murder.
"He grew up in the life. It was something that he wanted, and succeeded at," said former federal prosecutor George Stamboulidis.
D'Arco wore shirts with big "wiseguy" collars, and lived in an apartment in Little Italy. The market rent was $1,200 a month; he paid $200.
A few months after they exposed Bruno Facciola, the two crooked detectives provided Casso with a new bit of information: the underboss and Amuso were targeted for arrest. On Jan. 9, 1991, the pair met with Little Al at a Brooklyn bar, where Amuso pronounced him acting boss of the Lucheses.
Then Amuso and Casso disappeared.
During eight eye-opening months as boss, D'Arco's blind allegiance to the mob was undermined.
From seclusion, Casso and Amuso started a whispering campaign against D'Arco among the Luchese faithful. Yet D'Arco was unconvinced of their betrayal until the night of Sept. 18, 1991, when he attended a meeting in a Manhattan hotel room.
The vibe was ugly. Longtime Luchese associates appeared unnerved. A family hit man was among the group, and D'Arco believed he was marked for death.
After bolting, he began to rethink his life. He considered going to war against the Amuso-Casso faction. But that assumed a loyalty to the Lucheses that he no longer felt, a code of honor that he no longer believed.
"So I says, `That's it,"' D'Arco explained later. "I washed my hands of the whole thing."
He sent most of his family to Hawaii for safety. D'Arco hid out while a deal was made. On Sept. 21, 1991, Alphonse D'Arco became the most unlikely cooperating witness ever recruited.
And one of the most expensive. The federal government spent more than $2 million to relocate the D'Arco clan. Little Al and six other families were moved from New York to parts unknown.
News of the stunning defection spread quickly through the underworld. An attorney was dispatched to inform jailed Gambino boss John Gotti that Little Al was switching sides.
The acting boss would testify more than a dozen times against the mob's top echelon. D'Arco was a combative and effective witness, his memory for details and dates unshakable.
Testifying at a 1996 competency hearing for Genovese family boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante, D'Arco flew into a rage. "Don't break my chops," D'Arco warned defense attorney Michael Shapiro. "I'll break yours, too."
D'Arco's testimony helped convict Gigante and Colombo boss "Little Vic" Orena; ex-cronies Amuso and Casso; Bonanno consigliere Anthony Spero; Genovese consigliere James Ida; and an assortment of others.
He spilled about corruption in the unions, the Garment District, the airports.
"D'Arco gave them great value for the money," said defense lawyer Edward Hayes. "D'Arco is a lunatic, but he has a story."
Once, in a Brooklyn courtroom, D'Arco stood before a federal judge who noted they had grown up in the same nearby neighborhood.
"Yeah," D'Arco replied. "And we both rose to the top of our professions."
Ex-prosecutor Stamboulidis said D'Arco embraced his new calling as fervently as his old.
"When he entered an agreement with the government, he answered all the questions with brutal honesty and thoroughness," said Stamboulidis, now a partner in the Manhattan firm of Baker Hostetler. "A true believer does everything 100 percent. He believes 100 percent in his current position."
In return, D'Arco was sentenced in November 2002 to time served. He was fined $50, and returned to obscurity.
While mob turncoats like Hill and Sammy "The Bull" Gravano went back to jail, D'Arco stayed on the right side of the law. And one of the biggest trials lay ahead - one that brought him back to the day when Bruno Facciola had a canary for his last meal.
It was March 2005 when federal authorities announced the indictments of Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, former NYPD detective partners turned partners-in-crime. The two were charged with taking $4,000 a month from Gaspipe Casso to work as Luchese hit men.
On occasion, they slipped the underboss inside information. They told Casso that Facciola was reportedly working as an informant, authorities charged, and Casso ordered D'Arco to handle the hit.
Little Al was called again to testify.
The ex-boss, now 73, looked more grandfatherly than Godfatherly on the stand, but his thick Brooklyn accent was unchanged by years of life outside the city.
He stood firm under withering cross-examination from Hayes and former Gotti lawyer Bruce Cutler. Caracappa and Eppolito were quickly convicted, and faced life in prison. D'Arco slipped back into the Witness Protection Program.
But there was a moment during his testimony when he recalled a less complicated time.
Cutler, his voice booming, recited a litany of perks that came D'Arco's way from his agreement to be an informant: No jail time. A new identity. An attorney, free of charge.
"That's another reward, yes?" Cutler asked.
"I don't see anything to be a reward," D'Arco responded without hesitation. "I'd trade it all to go back on Spring Street."
05/29/06 00:03 EDT
Updated: 02:29 PM EDT
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