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 ...

Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera claimed in court papers that the proposed tests could clear him of three murders and pin the blame on turncoat accomplice Frank Gangi. But the U.S. Second Circuit ...

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 ...

Authorities allege Giattino was a member of convicted killer Thomas (Tommy Karate) Pitera’s mob crew over three decades ago. At Pitera’s trial in Brooklyn federal court in the spring of 1992 ...

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.

A federal appellate court has chopped down a motion by a Mafia hitman known as Tommy Karate to compel DNA testing in connection to three cold-blooded killings. Thomas Pitera claimed DNA testing ...

A sixth body had been discovered by law enforcement agents at a site in Chelsea believed to have been used by Bonanno crime family hit man Thomas "Tommy Karate" Pitera. In 1992, Pitera was ...

Thomas “Tommy Karate” Pitera, 57 — who is serving life in the slammer for six slayings and suspected of committing as many as 60 — claimed the proposed tests could clear him of three ...

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.