Jerry Capeci

An 80 year-old Queens mobster has been placed at the center of the infamous 1978 robbery of a Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK airport.

Former boss "Little Al" D'Arco was the highest-ranking mobster to become a government informant. His life story is told by Tom Robbins in his new book Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D’Arco, The Man Who Brought Down the Mafia. Robbins is an investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY School of Journalism and former longtime columnist at the Village Voice. Jerry Capeci, who writes a weekly column on organized crime at GangLandNews.com and has covered the mafia as a journalist for decades, co-authored the new book.

Jerry Capeci writes a weekly column on organized crime at GangLandNews.com, and has covered the mafia as a journalist for decades. He discusses why Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino is cooperating with the FBI, and the ripple effects of it in the mafia.  He also talks about the recent stabbing of the owner of Lucali pizzeria in Brooklyn.