Mob Talk Social Club Presents Mob History Story of Brooklyn Colombo Captain Dominick “Mimi” Scialo
Mob Talk Social Club Presents Mob History Story of Brooklyn Colombo Captain Dominick “Mimi” Scialo.
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Dominick “Mimi” Scialo was a Brooklyn Colombo captain whose violent reputation helped him rise—and whose increasingly unauthorized actions appear to have contributed to his murder. The familiar story that he died simply for insulting Carlo Gambino leaves out a significant internal Colombo dispute. His early life and criminal notoriety Scialo was born in Brooklyn on July 11, 1927. An FBI bulletin described him as a flashy dresser who enjoyed dancing, large cars, baseball and horse racing. The same bulletin characterized him as dangerous and wanted in connection with a murder. He became the 106th person on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list on May 9, 1958. Authorities sought him for fleeing prosecution after the shooting of a 17-year-old in Brooklyn. He surrendered to the FBI on July 27, 1959. These were charges; the wanted notice itself does not establish a conviction. A retrospective account entered into the Congressional Record connected that murder investigation to an arson-for-hire scheme. According to that account, two young men burned a property for Scialo, fought with him over payment, and were subsequently beaten and shot. It reported that the murder indictment was eventually dismissed after a victim’s deathbed statement disappeared from the prosecutor’s office. That is the account reproduced in the record, rather than a court finding I have independently verified. His promotion to captain Research published by LCN Bios, drawing on FBI records, places Scialo’s promotion to captain around spring or summer 1973. His crew combined members previously associated with Harry Fontana and the Musacchio crew. Its members included Paul D’Amico, Vincent “Jimmy” Muce, Larry Lampasi Jr. and several Fontana relatives. This suggests his tenure as captain was relatively brief. What appears to have triggered his downfall The same research identifies a particularly damaging sequence in December 1973: - December 10: Bookmaker Miguel Cosme, an associate of Larry Lampasi Jr., was murdered. Scialo’s crew was suspected. - December 13: Lampasi was shot in a Brooklyn barbershop after complaining about the killing. He survived. - January–February 1974: FBI informant Gregory Scarpa reported that Scialo had been killed because family leaders considered him unpredictable and a liability. Scarpa attributed the contract to Harry Fontana, with Carmine Persico’s approval. These are informant allegations quoted by a secondary researcher, so they deserve attribution rather than presentation as proven judicial facts. The Carlo Gambino story—and the date confusion Popular accounts say Scialo drunkenly insulted Gambino in a restaurant and was killed afterward. But Scarpa’s reported information describes broader complaints about Scialo, including complaints from Gambino and Frank “Funzi” Tieri. It supports a more complicated explanation involving unauthorized violence and trouble within his own family. There is also an important chronology distinction: October 9, 1974 is reported as the date his body was discovered, buried beneath a Brooklyn social club. The FBI-based research places his killing in January 1974, months earlier. Accounts placing the restaurant confrontation in October therefore conflict with that chronology.
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