Gerard Pappa - Aligning Himself With The Genovese Crime Family

Aligning Himself With The Genovese Crime Family

He was inducted into the Genovese crime family in 1974 and worked as a contract killer who murdered many criminals. He was cunning, treacherous and extreme, said to have personally murdered thirty-seven people. He was known to dress as a woman to disguise himself to fulfill murder contracts. Anthony Casso sold him marijuana, heroin and cocaine and always paid.

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