There were plenty of violent guys in the mob, but few bore names that told you exactly what kind of hurting you were in for quite like Tommy Karate. His real name was Thomas Pitera, but given how ...

Vincent Giattino was part of Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera’s murderous crew in the late 1980s. He’s serving life in prison for a pair of grisly slayings — including using a silenced ...

According to the New York Daily News, Giattino was part of Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera’s killer crew during the 1980s. Giattino was sentenced to life in prison for a pair of murders.

Thomas (Tommy Karate) Pitera. (Advance file photo) Thomas (Tommy Karate) Pitera: The Brooklynite was one of the most prolific hitmen in mob history. Bullied as a child, Pitera studied martial arts ...

Back in April 1990 (then-Gambino boss John Gotti et al would be arrested in December of that year), Gangi confessed to being a member of a mob-linked crew under Bonanno soldier Thomas (Tommy Karate) ...

Unlike most other Mafia hitmen, Thomas Pitera was well-trained in martial arts ... he would be suspected of as many as 60 murders for the Bonanno crime family. Dubbed “Tommy Karate,” Pitera was a ...

Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera, a member of the Bonanno crime family, and the others were indicted on numerous racketeering and drug charges, said Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn.

Frank Gangi testified in the trial of Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera, about how two criminal associates of Pitera were killed, dismembered and buried in a wildlife refuge. Pitera, a Japanese ...

Other notable inmates at McCreary include former NYC mobster with the Bonanno Crime Family, Thomas Pitera aka Tommy Karate, and drug lord and gangster Kenneth McGriff, both of whom are serving ...

One of Cohen’s most prominent cases in his prosecutorial career involved mob killer Thomas ″Tommy Karate″ Pitera. A jury convicted Pitera in July 1992 of committing a half-dozen murders as ...