The feds have provided two alleged Colombo mobsters -- reputed former acting boss Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli and reputed former consigliere Joel "Joe Waverly" Cacace -- with Apple iPods by which to "review government audio evidence behind bars" in "preparation for their upcoming racketeering trials" as reported by Mitchel Maddux for the New York Post: "hour after hour of conversations secretly taped by mob informants wearing hidden 'wires' or recorded by the FBI over tapped phone lines will be transferred in digital format to the iPods."
In December 2008 "a twenty-four count superseding indictment charging members and associates of the Colombo organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the 'Colombo family') – including former acting boss Thomas Gioeli, former consigliere Joel 'Joe Waverly' Cacace, captain Dino Calabro, and soldier Dino Saracino – with murder and racketeering was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn" according to a government press release: "Specifically, the indictment charges defendants Cacace, Calabro, and Saracino with the 1997 murder of NYPD Officer Ralph Dols; defendants Gioeli, Calabro, and Saracino with the 1999 murder of Colombo underboss William 'Wild Bill' Cutolo; defendant Gioeli with the 1995 murder of Richard Greaves; and defendant Calabro with the murder of Carmine Gargano in 1994."
Apparently, Dino Calabro has wised up and now is playing for Team America as reported by Jerry Capeci for The Huffington Post: "One of the new federal songbirds is capo Dino (Big Dino) Calabro, who was a triggerman in Dols's killing and who has been rumored for months to have been seeking a deal."
