Never heard that incident with scarpa jr before,
http://nydailynews.com/archives/news/hit-squad-guns-jailed-mob-capo-article-1.708124HIT SQUAD GUNS FOR A JAILED MOB CAPO
Colombo capo Gregory Scarpa Jr. has been marked for death by the mob because he severely beat Luchese boss Vittorio Amuso in jail after Amuso called his father a rat, sources said yesterday. All five families have put out a contract to kill Scarpa, 43, because Amuso is a member of The Commission, the mob's governing body. Scarpa's father, Gregory Scarpa Sr., was an FBI informant for 30 years. "He raised his hands to a member of The [Mafia's] Commission he's got no one on his side," said a law enforcement source. Scarpa, who had been imprisoned with Amuso in Terre Haute, Ind., has been moved into solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Correctional Center for his own protection. Amuso, 60, was hospitalized briefly and needed stitches to close facial and head wounds he suffered two weeks ago in the cellblock fight, law enforcement officials said. Authorities had feared a Luchese/Colombo war and began separating imprisoned members of the two families, but sources said those fears have been put to rest.
"The only blood spilled will be Scarpa Junior's. His own family cannot help him now," said one underworld source. Like imprisoned-for-life Gambino boss John Gotti, Amuso has kept his official position as Luchese boss and as such is a member of The Commission. Amuso remains in the general population of the federal pen in Terre Haute, where he triggered Scarpa's rage by chiding him for "strutting" like an important man when his father had been an FBI informant. "Your father was a rat. You should be ashamed," said Amuso. Scarpa clocked Amuso immediately, knocking him down, sources said. Amuso fought back but was "beaten pretty badly before Scarpa was pulled off him by other inmates," said one source. Already serving 20 years for drug dealing, Scarpa lost his cool soon after learning that the feds had hit him with new racketeering and murder charges that could mean life in prison and were preparing to ship him to Brooklyn to plead to the new indictment.
After getting to New York, Scarpa pleaded innocent, and was placed in a virtual isolation unit to await trial May. Amuso is serving life for a 1992 federal murder and racketeering conviction. The senior Scarpa was a long-time FBI mole. But by the time he died in prison of AIDS last year, authorities also were aware that Scarpa had often used his position to help his and his son's mob rackets.
