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	Nicodemo Scarfo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicodemo Domenico Scarfo (born March 8, 1929) was an American mafioso, member of the U.S. Cosa Nostra, and head of the Scarfo Crime Family which controlled organized crime as far as southern New Jersey.
		Scarfo established himself in Atlantic City in the 1970s and then became boss of the Philadelphia Family after bosses Angelo Bruno and Philip Testa were murdered in 1980 and 1981.
		Scarfo was sentenced to life imprisonment at Supermax, primarily on the testimony of a number of informants, including his nephew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicodemo_Scarfo (536 words)

	United States v. Nicodemo Scarfo
		Scarfo argues that two of the issues raised in his 2255 motion, his alleged conflicts with attorney Simone and his consecutive sentences for RICO and RICO Conspiracy, are "substantial 'and debatable among jurists,'" and thus must be heard on appeal.
		Scarfo argues that the Second Circuit, in Fulton, "has unequivocally held that where trial counsel is alleged to have participated in the crime charged with his client there is an actual conflict of interest that cannot be waived, and adheres to a per se rule of reversal." Appellant's Memorandum at 4.
		Scarfo was convicted of the extortion of William Rouse.
	www.ipsn.org /court_cases/us_v_scarfo.htm (7891 words)

	United States v Scarfo (July 9, 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scarfo apparently believes that because his federal sentence was given consecutive to his state sentence in the D'Alfonso case, we were influenced in sentencing by that state conviction.
		Scarfo was represented by me from approximately 1980 on court matters and I gave him advice in connection with certain things in the seventies when he had problems before the New Jersey Senate investigating committee.
		Scarfo was the defendant in a case that's known as the Rouse extortion case and in that case I had represented Leland Beloff at one point, and also there were accusation s made by two witnesses DelGIorno and Caramandi, mostly DelGiorno --mostly Caramandi.
	www.thelaborers.net /court_cases/us_v_scarfo_97-2780.htm (3883 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scarfo acknowledged in court that his gambling operation employed numerous telephone "sitters" who would take the bets from the betters who called in on toll-free 800 numbers the betters were provided.
		Scarfo also told Judge Pisano that his gambling operation had numerous agents who were responsible for their own group or package of betters and that these agents would receive a percentage of their gamblers' losses.
		Scarfo, a resident of Newark, is the son of jailed mob boss Nicodemo D. Scarfo, of Philadelphia.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/nj/press/files/sc0228_r.htm (375 words)

	TheExperiment - FBI Hacks Alleged Mobster
		Scarfo, who has been charged with masterminding a mob-linked loan sharking operation in New Jersey, reportedly used the popular PGP encryption software to shield his computer's secrets from prying eyes.
		Scarfo's prosecution comes at a time when the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system is under increasingly heavy fire from privacy groups, and the use of data-scrambling encryption products appears to be growing.
		Scarfo has been charged with supervising "an illegal gambling business" in violation of state and federal law and using extortionate loan shark tactics, according to a three-count indictment filed in federal court in June 2000.
	www.theexperiment.org /articles_printer.php?news_id=997 (933 words)

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		Court records in the pending case indicate that Nicodemo S. Scarfo, 35, was the target of a sophisticated surveillance tool - a so-called keystroke-logging device - that allowed the FBI to reproduce every stroke he entered on a computer on which gambling records allegedly were stored.
		Scarfo subsequently was charged with supervising a mob-linked bookmaking and loan-sharking operation in North Jersey.
		Scarfo was allegedly supervising part of a $5-million-a-year mob bookmaking operation with ties to the Gambino crime family, according to court records.
	www.owlriver.com /privacy/breakin-wiretap.html (1229 words)

	Communication Monitoring, Encryption Control
		Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., notorious for his mob-related activities was recently accused of illegal gambling and loan-sharking.
		Scarfo stated that the search done by the FBI was in violation of his 4th Amendment rights and that the KLS wiretap conducted was illegal.
		Nicodemo Scarfo pleaded guilty the year after and was sentence to prison.
	qlink.queensu.ca /~7dmz/cisc497/page2.html (660 words)

	washingtonpost.com: High-Tech FBI Tactics Raise Privacy Questions
		When federal prosecutors set their sights on Nicodemo Scarfo, son of reputed Philadelphia mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, for alleged illegal gambling and loan-sharking, they had to employ some sophisticated high-tech techniques.
		Scarfo's defense team, with assistance from privacy organizations, is trying to force the government to reveal how the "key-logging" technology works as a possible prelude to asking that the evidence it yielded be thrown out.
		As an example he wondered whether, if the key-logging system used in the Scarfo case was able to turn itself off when the modem was activated to ensure that a wiretap order was not required, why it couldn't instead have been configured to activate only when an encryption program was run.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A55606-2001Aug9?language=printer (977 words)

	Opinion and Order - U.S. v. Scarfo (Dec. 26, 2001)
		Scarfo argues that since the government had the ability to capture and record only those keystrokes relevant to the "passphrase" to the encrypted file, and because it received an unnecessary over-collection of data, the warrants were written and executed as general warrants.
		Scarfo's computer contained an encryption program called PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), which is used to encrypt or scramble computer files so that decrypting or unscrambling the files requires use of the appropriate passphrase.
		Recognizing that Scarfo's computer had a modem and thus was capable of transmitting electronic communications via the modem, the F.B.I. configured the KLS to avoid intercepting electronic communications typed on the keyboard and simultaneously transmitted in real time via the communication ports.
	www.epic.org /crypto/scarfo/opinion.html (4483 words)

	Taking a Byte Out of Cybercrime Evolving Crime
		Scarfo, a New Jersey mobster, was sentenced last month to the maximum 33 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to running an illegal gambling ring.
		Scarfo's case illustrates just one way federal and other law enforcement officials have been relying increasingly on cyberforensics to track down criminal suspects.
		Investigators in the Scarfo case refused to comment on whether the key-logging system was being used in other investigations and whether there would be more cases prosecuted as a result of the system.
	www.crime-research.org /library/Bryan.htm (1916 words)

	Free Football Picks - Scarfo's high-tech case ends with plea
		Scarfo admitted supervising a gambling operation in North Jersey for about a year, beginning in the summer of 1998.
		The device was placed somewhere on Scarfo's computer during a court-authorized break-in at a Belleville office where Scarfo was working in the spring of 1999, according to court documents.
		Scarfo has two prior convictions, one a racketeering charge related to the distribution of illegal video poker machines.
	www.bettorsworld.com /web/forums/showthread.php?t=9702 (724 words)

	Nola.com's Printer-Friendly Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scarfo is entitled to all the legal safeguards that any suspect enjoys.
		Scarfo had stored on his computer, federal investigators seem to have overstepped the bounds of what traditional search warrants allow.
		Scarfo's office and copied files off his computer after informants linked him with a sports-betting and loan-sharking operation.
	www.nola.com /printer/printer.ssf?/newsstory/fibbers16.html (424 words)

	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. NICODEMO SCARFO,
		They identify Scarfo and sixteen other defendants as members of an enterprise known as La Cosa Nostra, the LCN, the Mafia, the mob, this thing of [1320] ours, the Bruno family and the Scarfo* family.
		Scarfo approved the implementation of a mafia "street tax" upon individuals involved in criminal activity who were not "connected" with LCN members.
		The shakedown money that was delivered to Scarfo was clearly identified as such and had a slip with the notations of "Elbow" and "Extra" to designate that the revenue came from shakedowns.
	www.ipsn.org /court_cases/us_v_scarfo_198-04-20.htm (10987 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - this just in ... Mob News and Features
		Scarfo and Paolercio were charged under the federal statute that requires "five or more" participants who "conducted, financed, managed, supervised, directed or owned" a business that earned more than $2,000 in any single day.
		Scarfo's attorney, Don Manno, pointed out that his client was in jail until July 1998, nearly 11/2 years after the government said the conspiracy started.
		Scarfo was serving a 13-month sentence for pulling a knife, threatening, and attempting to stab William Morton, the manager of the Deja Vu bar, in Atlantic City, on March 24, 1996.
	www.americanmafia.com /News/6-23-00_Gaming_Sharking_Scarfo-Jr.html (494 words)

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		They were authorized by court order to surreptitiously enter Scarfo’s office, by breaking and entering if necessary, and to install their program without his knowledge.
		Scarfo’s passphrase happened to be the same as the Bureau of Prisons ID number assigned to his father, mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, Sr.
		Scarfo filed two motions: one motion for pretrial discovery seeking information about how the FBI’s KLS system worked and another motion to suppress the evidence gleaned from the FBI’s use of KLS.
	www.law.duke.edu /dev/journals/dltr/articles/2002DLTR0002.html (1683 words)

	Welcome to the Star Chamber (was: U.S. Refuses to Disclose PC Tracking) [Free Republic]
		Scarfo's lawyers have argued that the technology resembles a wiretap, and that using the logger without going through the relatively stringent requirements of a full wiretap order may have violated Mr.
		Scarfo that might be helpful in his attempts to get the evidence gathered by the key-logger system rejected.
		Scarfo is accused of having used with a popular encryption program to scramble and unscramble records of gambling and loansharking operations.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b87af546022.htm (1728 words)

	ITworld.com - Keyboard stroke capture okay, judge says
		Scarfo's attorneys hoped to suppress the evidence as unconstitutional, a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
		Scarfo's attorneys claimed that by keeping details of the logger's mechanisms secret, the defense could not determine if the warrant had been breached.
		Scarfo's attorneys plan to file a motion asking the judge to reconsider.
	www.itworld.com /Man/2688/IDG020104strokecapture/pfindex.html (449 words)

	Nicky Scarfo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scarfo, was the target of a sophisticated operation by the bureau that allowed it to record every...
		Scarfo emerged as the undisputed leader of the...
		Scarfo, this continued so as Donoghue points out, from the napkins to the garbage collection everything but the gambling itself is...
	www.jolt12.co.uk /nicky_scarfo.html (374 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		NICODEMO S. Donald F. Manno, Appellant (Pursuant to F.R.A.P. 12(a)) Appeal from the United States District Court For the District of New Jersey D.C. No.: 00-cr-00404-1 District Judge: Honorable Nicholas H. Politan Argued: July 19, 2001 Before: SCIRICA, RENDELL, and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.
		The article concerned a controversial means of surveillance used to acquire evidence against Scarfo.1 Both Manno and the prosecutor predicted the filing of a pretrial motion contesting the legality of the Government's surveillance technique.2 On December 5, 2000, the District Court held a previously scheduled hearing.
		On January 10, 2001, the District Court held a hearing concerning Scarfo's retention of new counsel and, again, the Court spent much of the hearing discussing the injunction with Manno: The Court: It was brought to my attention that there was an article in the Philadelphia paper.
	laws.lp.findlaw.com /3rd/004313.html (6515 words)

	U.S. v. Joseph Pungitore (Pungitore -Scarfo soldier decision) 1998-08-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		LaCheen said he knew who and what Scarfo and Leonetti were, and he did not think it advisable for his client to appear unwilling to go to trial with Scarfo when he, Scarfo and the other co-defendants were being held in the same jail without bail.
		Simone asserted in open court that all the defendants and lawyers were working together as a team, and that all the defendants had agreed to permit their lawyers to leave the courtroom from time to time.
		Scarfo by his lawyer with or without the presence of a "spy." The lack of any real basis for concern is supported by Mr.
	www.thelaborers.net /court_cases/us_v_pungitore.htm (15409 words)

	Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Tampa: Cover: Cover: Peeping Feds
		The elder Scarfo took the Philadelphia mob from its heyday in the 1970s and dragged it into an intra-family war that left more than half the made guys in the family dead by the end of the 1980s.
		Scarfo's attorneys wanted to see if their client was subject to an unlawful search and seizure.
		Commenting on the Scarfo case and the effect of the anti-terrorism bill, David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center says, "The government was not inclined to disclose the (key logger) methods before Sept. 11.
	tampa.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:1362 (2570 words)

	08/07/01: The FBI recorded virtually every keystroke made on Scarfo's computer ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In a case privacy advocates say smacks of Big Brother, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Politan ruled that the government must reveal the details of the computer monitoring system it used to gather evidence against Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., who is charged with running illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations for the Gambino crime family.
		Scarfo is the son of imprisoned mobster Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo.
		Whether the system is hardware or software is unknown, prompting a motion by Scarfo's attorneys to reveal its makeup so they could have it analyzed and make a case to suppress the evidence it gathered.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/princessdiaries/34.html (379 words)

	Wired News: Scarfo Judge: Private Hearing OK
		The Scarfo defense maintains they need all the details to determine if the bugging was illegal, but prosecutors say publicizing how the device works would damage existing probes of "foreign intelligence agents" and endanger U.S. agents' lives.
		Scarfo, 36, and Frank Paolercio, 32, are accused of loansharking and running a gambling racket in northern New Jersey.
		Scarfo's father, Nicodemo Scarfo, is serving a life term for running the Philadelphia-Atlantic City mob in the 1980s.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,46650,00.html (497 words)

	Judge Demands Documents on FBI Computer Spy System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scarfo, the son of jailed mobster Nicodemo ``Little Nicky'' Scarfo, is accused of running the loan-sharking and illegal gambling operations of the Gambino crime family.
		Scarfo's defense attorneys hope to show that the key logger device was similar to a wiretap, allowing a sweeping, 60-day surreptitious search of his private communications.
		Scarfo's defense attorneys have asked to see how the key logger system operates, saying they are entitled to analyze it to support their motion to suppress the evidence it gathered.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/519574/posts (1199 words)

	Big Brother and the Bookie
		Scarfo's lawyers quickly claimed the feds should have obtained wiretap authorization before conducting that type of surveillance.
		Scarfo hid out in North Jersey after the hit, which most believed was orchestrated by a renegade faction of the Philadelphia Mob upset with the reign of his father.
		Since the elder Scarfo was in jail at the time, his son became a proxy target.
	www.mojones.com /news/feature/2002/01/mafia.html (2994 words)

	Judge OKs FBI Computer Keyboard Sniffing
		In the first case of its kind, a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey has ruled that evidence surreptitiously gathered by the FBI about Nicodemo S. Scarfo's reputed loan shark operation can be presented in a trial later this year.
		Scarfo's lawyer said he was "very disappointed" but he could see no way to appeal Politan's decision before the trial takes place.
		Scarfo's lawyers also claimed the FBI was conducting a general search of the sort loathed by the colonists at the time of the American Revolution and thereafter outlawed by the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of "unreasonable" searches.
	www.rense.com /general18/judgeOK.htm (726 words)

	The Mafia in New Jersey - La Cosa Nostra - State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation 1989 Report - The ...
		Although Scarfo's mismanagement of the group has largely accounted for its decline, at least five high level family members charged with him and facing long prison terms have violated the LCN's traditional code of silence and are cooperating with law enforcement.
		Nicodemo Scarfo had long been an associate of Frank Gerace, once the president of the local, and of Frank Lentino, the union's former business agent.
		Associates who were not accustomed to paying tribute ultimately turned against Scarfo and testified against him and his allies during the 1988 federal racketeering trial and in a separate extortion trial in 1989.
	www.mafianj.com /sci89/bruno.shtml (2821 words)

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