What's Going on with Greg Scarpa Jr?

Scarpa Junior at Colorado's ADX.
Gregory Scarpa Junior, sentenced to 40 years to life for assorted mob mayhem (a law enforcement source told us he's been linked to 24 homicides alone), has been transferred from the same Supermax that Vinny Basciano was in.

Only Scarpa Junior has been moved -- we're not sure when -- to something called a Residential Reentry Management Field Office based in Kansas City, Kansas.

"He's never getting out," the source told us. "They might have moved him to make him more comfortable now that everything has settled down." But still -- a a Residential Reentry Management Field Office?
We phoned the RRMs press office to ask the question: if someone is transferred to an RRM, does it mean they are being prepared to be released.
The phone rep couldn't give us an answer and suggested we call another phone number. But if a person who works for the RRM unit couldn't provide us with a simple definition of what an RRM is, can we honestly expect someone from the BOP to give us an answer? We never mentioned Scarpa Junior, only asked for a definition of what those places are. They are defined on the website as:

RRMs administer contracts for community-based programs and serve as the Federal Bureau of Prisons local liaison with the federal courts, the U.S. Marshals Service, state and local corrections, and a variety of community groups within their specific judicial districts. RRM Staff also monitor local Residential Reentry Centers which are responsible for providing federal offenders with community-based services that will assist with their reentry needs.

Scarpa Junior was about to testify at the Roy Lindley "Lin" DeVecchio trial. He never got the opportunity.
In 2006, Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes indicted DeVecchio on charges that he'd helped Scarpa kill four people in the 1980s and early 1990s by supplying confidential FBI information. The trial was destroyed in the fall of 2007 when Tom Robbins of The Village Voice came forward with an interview he and Jerry Capeci had conducted with Schiro in 1997 in which Schiro denied that DeVecchio had been involved in murders. This eventually orced prosecutors to move for a dismissal of charges against DeVecchio, which was granted on November 1, 2007.

Sandra Harmon authored Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal.




View a collection of Scarpa Junior's 302s posted online by Peter Lance, and a recap of part of his story.
The following is footnoted summary of Scarpa Junior.  

As a prison informant Gregory Scarpa Jr. claimed that Ramzi Yousef had told him of plans to bomb an airplane or kidnap a US Attorney to cause a mistrial in Yousef's 1996 trial. Yousef also implied having assistance from a foreign government and claimed this government would offer Scarpa asylum. [1] The FBI report did not name the foreign government, but Wikipedia citing Simon Reeve's The New Jackals notes that "Yousef's maternal uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was living in Qatar as the guest of a Qatari cabinet official." [2] 

On March 31, Scarpa claimed that Yousef had sent a bomb through the DHL postal service. [3] On June 13, Scarpa named Abdul Hakim Murad as a co-conspirator in a plan to bomb an airplane. [4] On July 18, the day of the bombing, Scarpa would say that Yousef had previously warned a Jerry Koupakis not to fly on any TWA aircraft on the morning of July 18. [5] Scarpa would also say that Yousef credited Bojinka (Bojinga) with the Dhahran bombing of June 26, 1996, [6] and that Yousef had people from England scouting the Atlanta Olympic Games. [7] 

Coincidence

The destruction of TWA flight 800 on the evening of July 17 was officially determined to be an accident. This has been disputed by independent investigators.

A Christian supremacist, Eric Rudolph, would take credit for the July 27 bombing of the Olympic Games. 

Cover-up 

Rodney Stich claims that the FBI covered up Scarpa's reports to protect FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio from murder charges. [8] 

In 2005, Scarpa would tell police that Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had told him about a cache of explosives hidden in his old home. Scarpa failed a polygraph examination. The FBI, under pressure from Congress, searched the house and found the explosives where Scarpa said they would be. [9]