# Former Mob Boss and a Colombo Soldier: Expose the Truth Behind the Last Mob War

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Podcast: [Sit Down with Michael Franzese](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sit-down-with-michael-franzese-7319588)
Published: 2026-05-19T20:49:00+00:00
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## Resource

I sat down with Greg Scarpa Jr. last week, and he told me a story I almost couldn’t believe. Now I’m sitting down with a second man who lived it from the other side, and he’s corroborating every word. Frankie Steele was a Colombo associate during the Persico-Orena War. He was 21 years old in the safe houses, in the wired cars, in the murder trials that put him away for over a decade. He’ll tell you exactly how the war started, how an FBI agent named Lin DeVecchio fed Greg Scarpa Sr. the addresses of the men they were trying to kill, why every trial after his ended in acquittal, and why my friend Michael Sessa is still rotting in a prison cell 34 years later for a murder he didn’t commit. This is the puzzle nobody could finish telling — until now. Two of the three living men who know the whole story are sitting in front of you. Listen to what they have to say. Former Mob Boss and a Colombo Soldier: Expose the Truth Behind the Last Mob War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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