Originally Posted By: GerryLang
The murders in this indictment are pretty old. Joseph Scopo was killed by John Pappa. The murders they are pinning on Vernace are ancient, I thought those charges were dropped a few years ago, I don't think he was the shooter either. The other murder of the guy was in the trial of Ronnie "one arm" Trucchio, so I guess they are trying to charge his son with that murder too. The FEDS like to pin one murder on many different guys, even if they didn't directly take part in it. These indictments always look strong when they first come out, but seem to fizzle out by the time they get to trial, will see how this plays out. The fact that they are trying to tie old murders into the case makes me wonder how strong it is, but jurors these days believe anything the Government says for some reason.


Yeah I wonder what role they are going to charge Russo for the Scopo murder...


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