Anthony Gaspipe Casso Jr. This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. www.judicialaccountability.org

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   Published on: 5/14/2007   Last Visited: 7/21/2008

   But things went bad when Casso was arrested in 1993 and assumed that Burton had dropped a dime on him, sources said.
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   Casso put a hit on his former friend, prompting Burton to try to evict the son as payback, Casso Jr.'s lawyer, Bruce Baron, claims in papers fighting the eviction.
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   A Manhattan judge's lavish wedding was paid for by Mafia mass murderer Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso as a favor to the mobbed-up father of the bride, according to court papers obtained by the Daily News.
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   Burton Kaplan has filed a notice of of imprisoned Luchese underboss Anthony
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   Anthony Casso Jr., 33, lives in the house, his childhood home, with his wife and baby.
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   mobsters to the 1985 wedding "Little Vic" Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso,
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   As the admitted middleman between Luchese crime family underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso and the two detectives, Kaplan's testimony is expected to detail in coming days how Eppolito, 57, and Caracappa, 64, came to be hit men for the mob.
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   The guests at her wedding included Mafia boss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso.
   
   But, she was also a top student at the State University of New York in Albany and at St. John's Law School.She became a senior trial counsel at Legal Aid and went on to help the courts devise drug treatment programs.
   
   In 1997, she testified on her father's behalf in a case involving a $10 million-a-year pot smuggling operation.But she also joined her mother in pressing her father to cooperate with the government.He continued to resist even after being hit with a 27-year sentence.
   
   "My wife and daughter had been asking me to cooperate from that first day and I didn't do it," the father said yesterday.
   
   Finally, fearing the two "Mafia cops" would turn against him, he did as his family had been pushing him to do for almost a decade.
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   Guests included Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso who years later as a Luchese underboss allegedly gave the accused mob cops instructions to kill through Burton Kaplan.
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   For one thing, former Luchese underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso attended her lavish wedding more than a decade ago ata Long Island catering hall, according to a knowledgeable source.
   
   And she even testified as a defense witness at her father's 1997 drug trial.Despite her testimony, her father was convicted of dealing 48,000 pounds of marijuana.

2. 2. New York Daily News - News & Views - Michael Daly: All in the family: a career criminal and his daughter the judge

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   Published on: 3/15/2006   Last Visited: 3/15/2006

   The guests at her wedding included Mafia boss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso.
   
   But, she was also a top student at the State University of New York in Albany and at St. John's Law School.She became a senior trial counsel at Legal Aid and went on to help the courts devise drug treatment programs.
   
   In 1997, she testified on her father's behalf in a case involving a $10 million-a-year pot smuggling operation.But she also joined her mother in pressing her father to cooperate with the government.He continued to resist even after being hit with a 27-year sentence.
   
   "My wife and daughter had been asking me to cooperate from that first day and I didn't do it," the father said yesterday.
   
   Finally, fearing the two "Mafia cops" would turn against him, he did as his family had been pushing him to do for almost a decade.