Henry Borelli

Henry Borelli (b. 1948) is a New York mafioso with the Gambino crime family who became a core member of the violent DeMeo crew.

DeMeo Gang

The DeMeo gang was an infamous group of murderers, car thieves and [...] dealers associated. The crew was led by Gambino soldier Roy DeMeo, and also included Joseph Testa, Anthony Senter, Joseph Guglielmo and Chris Rosenberg. The crew garnered a notorious reputation in the criminal underworld. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, the crew was suspected in 75 to 200 killings. Due to his reputed efficiency as a shooter, Borelli acquired the nickname "Dirty Henry". Despite his usefulness as an enforcer and hitman, Borelli would never become a made man in the Gambino family as he had taken The New York Police Department (NYPD) entrance exam in the early 1970s.

Notable murders

Borelli was either implicated in, or suspected of, the following murders:

• Andrei Katz- Borelli used a female friend to lure Katz to a location where he could be abducted by the DeMeo crew. Borelli is not assumed to have actually killed Katz however, nor participated in the dismemberment of his corpse afterwards. Regardless, Borelli was arrested for the slaying along with Joseph Testa when the woman confessed her role in the [...] to police. Both Borelli and Testa were acquitted of [...] after the woman's testimony was discredited by defense attorneys during the trial.

• Joseph Brocchini - Borelli was a shooter in the next known [...] committed by Roy DeMeo and his crew. On May 20, 1976 Borelli and DeMeo shot and killed Brocchini, a made man, or full member, of another New York crime family. Brocchini was killed for punching DeMeo during an argument about a [...] business they owned. Brocchini was shot five times in the back of the head in the office of a his used-car dealership, the other employees having been blindfolded and handcuffed. The crime was made to look like a robbery; DeMeo did not have permission from the crime families to [...] Brocchini and would have been killed himself were it traced back to him.

• Khaled Daoud and Ronald Falcaro - On October 12, 1979, two men were shot to death in a garage owned by one of the DeMeo crew members. One of the men, Daoud, had been threatening to inform the police about the DeMeo crew's extremely lucrative Middle East operation, in which large numbers of stolen vehicles were being shipped to Kuwait, earning the main members of the operation thousands of dollars a week. The other man, Falcaro, was merely accompanying Daoud to what they thought was a meeting to discuss purchasing vehicles for their own legititimate auto sale business. Testimony by crew members Frederick DiNome and Vito Arena confirmed that DeMeo and Borelli were the two shooters in the [...], with Testa and Anthony Senter assigned as backup.

• Charles Montigore and Daniel Scutaro - On June 5, 1980 Borelli and DeMeo again committed a double [...]. They shot and killed Montigore for refusing to recant testimony against the son of a friend of DeMeo's. They also killed Scutaro, a friend of Montigore's who had nothing to do with the situation. Scutaro had arrived at the body shop while the hitmen were still there and asked to see Montigore. DeMeo told crew member Richard DiNome send Scutaro into the garage, where he was murdered by DeMeo and Borelli.

Prison

In 1986, Borelli was sentenced to life in prison and a concurrent sentence of 150 years for 15 counts of auto theft. Although Borelli successfully appealed the life sentence, the 150-year sentence for the auto theft was upheld. 1. As of October 2007, Borelli is serving out his sentence at Hazelton Federal Penitentary located in Preston County, West Virginia. His projected release date is 10-10-2072. 2 .

He is now eligible for parole. Read at the bottom of the document.

Sources

• [...] Machine by Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci, 1993, ISBN 0-451-40387-8.