Drug Addiction and Falling Out With Gravano
Nicholas Mormando became hooked on crack cocaine and cocaine. It is suspected by Sammy Gravano that he also got his friend Michael DeBatt hooked on the potent narcotic. Sammy later said about Nicholas,:"He became like a renegade. He went berserk. He didn't want to be in the crew no more. He was going to start his own little gang. I couldn't take a chance on him running around. He knew too much. So I got permission from John (John Gotti) to kill him. We finally got Nicky to come by Tali's, and he went with Huck (Thomas Carbonaro) to pick up Old Man (Joseph Paruta), who was still alive then. Joe got in the backseat and shot Nicky twice in the back of the head". Sammy Gravano and his brother-in-law Edward Garofalo) were trailing in a car behind them. While both cars were driving on West 9th Street, near Bay Parkway Mormando's corpse was thrown out of the car into a vacant lot. It was found the next day."
The murder of Nicholas Mormando remained unsolved until Sammy Gravano agreed to testify against John Gotti at his racketeering trial.
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