Acting on a tip from his FBI handler, Colombo crime family capo Greg Scarpa Sr. ordered his teenage son to kill his best buddy, according to an explosive affidavit filed with the Brooklyn Dis trict Attorney’s Office.
Scarpa’s chilling in structions were issued – and carried out – after former FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio allegedly told the gangster, nicknamed “The Killing Machine,” that his son was going to be ratted out by his pal and linked to the murder of a member of a rival mob, said a source who’s seen the affidavit.
Both Scarpa’s son, Joey Schiro, and the son’s friend, Patrick Porco, were 17 in 1989, when the cold-blooded murder took place.
The affidavit was filed late last year with investi gators in Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes’ office who are probing the cozy relationship between DeVecchio and Scarpa, amid reports that the FBI agent regularly provided the mobster with confidential information that helped him ice his mob rivals and avoid arrest.
The bombshell sworn document was provided by a writer who had started penning a tell-all book with Linda Schiro, Joey’s mother and Scarpa’s long-time common-law wife.
It gives a shocking account of Porco’s cruel murder, as disclosed by Linda Schiro while she was being interviewed for the book, which was never completed.
The filing states that pals Schiro and Porco had started selling pot and cocaine and were feuding with a rival teenage drug dealer, Dominick Masseria, of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Schiro, Porco and another friend, Rey Aviles, escalated the war by tracking down Masseria, 17, and shooting him, the affidavit says. Scarpa was frantic when he learned of the murder because Masseria was affiliated with another organized-crime family and the penalty for executing a rival mobster without permission is death, the affidavit notes.
Scarpa sent his son and Porco to his New Jersey farm to hide out, but it wasn’t long before they became bored and returned to Brooklyn, the affidavit reports.
Soon after, their pal Aviles, 20, was arrested and charged with Masseria’s murder.
Then Scarpa got a phone call at home from DeVecchio, who asked him to go to a pay phone and get in touch with him, the affidavit says.
Linda Schiro said she accompanied Scarpa and said that after he made the call he told her DeVecchio had tipped him that Porco was going to rat on Joey, the affidavit states.
Scarpo was very quiet for a while and then said he was going to have to kill Porco, according to the affidavit.
He had someone lined up to carry out the hit and told his son – who insisted his best friend wouldn’t turn on him. But his father said he was the boss, according to the filing.
When Scarpa’s arrangements to kill Porco fell through, he ordered his son to carry out the hit, the affidavit says.
The teen left his home with a cousin, returned a few hours later, went to his room, locked the door – and spent the night crying, according to the report.
Scarpa told Linda Schiro that Porco had been killed and later instructed her to attend the teenager’s wake, according to the writer, whose name is being withheld.
Her son refused to go – and she told Porco’s parents that he had been too upset to attend, the document notes. Scarpa died in prison in 1994.
DeVecchio – who has repeatedly denied the claims against him – retired and is living in Florida.