Have Vibram soles reduced in quality drastically recently, or have I been sold counterfeit Scarpa boots? They used to last for years, not start to disintegrate after two.
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@chris108.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gyHave Vibram soles reduced in quality drastically recently, or have I been sold counterfeit Scarpa boots? They used to last for years, not start to disintegrate after two.
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"1985 was a busy year for #Scarpa in terms of homicide with as many as four murders to his credit."
#Mafia #FBI #truecrime #organizedcrime #nonfiction #biography #BookSky #CosaNostra #ColomboFamily
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"Scarpa looked to determine the limits of criminal behavior the FBI would tolerate from him. In short, would the #FBI turn a blind eye while #Scarpa committed murder?"
#Mafia #truecrime #organizedcrime #biography #nonfiction #CosaNostra #Brooklyn #ColomboFamily
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social#JonBernthal should play Greg #Scarpa in a #biopic series. I might know a writer for the job!
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"DeRosa was wounded, having been shot in the neck by #Scarpa as he walked away . . . Scarpa was somehow still alive after having a bullet enter his face, take out his left eye, and leave 'another hole near his nose.'"
@newsevoce.bsky.social@newsevoce.bsky.social@jonathan-dyer.bsky.socialI know "post hoc ergo propter hoc" is a logical fallacy, but I am convinced that a 2nd week of best sales since January of "Greg #Scarpa, Legendary Evil" is due to the release of "By Any Means" from @paramountpictures.bsky.social
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"Scarpa responded with surprise number one: he admitted in open court and on the record that he had been an informant for the #FBI.“
#Scarpa #Mafia #mob #organizedcrime #truecrime #nonfiction #biography #ColomboFamily #CosaNostra #Brooklyn
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"Greg #Scarpa, Legendary Evil: The Many Faces of a #Mafia Killer" published by #WildBluePress
Scarpa - a member of the #Colombo crime family, a one-man crime wave, a bigamist, a killer, a thief, a con, and a traitor - was an #FBI informant for more than 25 years.
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"The third Colombo war, as of November 24, 1991, was officially deadly. A response to Smurra’s execution was in order, yet the plan #Scarpa devised for revenge was so bizarre as to be comical."
#Mafia #FBI #truecrime #nonfiction #biography #organizedcrime
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social#Scarpa "violated every oath he ever took, and in doing so made it clear that to him words like 'family' and 'loyalty' were useful only as tools of manipulation for his own advancement, his own protection, his own greed."
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social#Scarpa "secured his position of power and prestige within a criminal enterprise by simultaneously aligning himself with the very forces working to destroy that enterprise."
#Mafia #FBI #ColomboFamily #truecrime #nonfiction #biography #organizedcrime #BookSky
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.socialScarpa's "last act . . . was one final betrayal of the men he led in the life he had chosen."
#Scarpa #FBI #Mafia #truecrime #organizedcrime #nonfiction #biography #ColomboFamily #CosaNostra #Brooklyn #informant #BookSky
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.socialMy thanks to @paramountpictures.bsky.social. My award-winning #Scarpa #biography enjoyed its best sales week in 9 months the week after the 9/4 release of #ByAnyMeans a film about a brief time in Scarpa's long, destructive life.
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"Any public trial . . . would threaten Scarpa’s life. But if #Scarpa were able simply to walk away from the arrest, his status as an #FBI informant would be confirmed and he would likewise be as good as dead."
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.socialA nice surprise from #Germany today. Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil is in the #top10, number 9 to be exact, in #BestSellers in #TrueCrime (English)!
#Scarpa #Mafia #FBI #organizedcrime #nonfiction #biography #CosaNostra #ColomboFamily
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.socialNew #blog post about falling back on a #legal #education to #write a #biography of a notorious #gangster
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.social"Scarpa, a man feared for his reputation as a ruthless, capricious killer left this earth not with a bang, but a whimper, his treachery and hypocrisy fully exposed."
#Scarpa #Mafia #FBI #truecrime #nonfiction #organizedcrime #CosaNostra #ColomboFamily #Brooklyn
@jonathan-dyer.bsky.socialNew #blog post after watching #ByAnyMeans based on Greg Scarpa's unlikely participation in an #FBI investigation in #Mississippi in 1966, and my perspective as a #Scarpa biographer.