Quiet Talk Leads to Genovese Capo’s Killer
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As soon as Genovese capo Ralph Coppola disappeared in September 1998, gangbusting FBI agents knew that a mob moratorium on murder that had begun five years earlier was over. They also knew the most likely suspect in the rubout was behind bars.
Nearly six years and thousands of tape-recorded conversations later, the FBI finally got the evidence it needed to obtain an indictment charging a onetime acting boss, Liborio “Barney” Bellomo, with Coppola’s murder.
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