‘THE DUNGEON’: Feds say Dino Saracino and brother Sebastiano used their childhood bedroom (above) for murder, and a plastic chicken planter for cash drop-offs. (Spencer Burnett)
‘THE DUNGEON’: Feds say Dino Saracino and brother Sebastiano used their childhood bedroom for murder, and a plastic chicken planter (above) for cash drop-offs. (Spencer Burnett)
‘THE DUNGEON’: Feds say Dino Saracino (top right) and brother Sebastiano used their childhood bedroom for murder, and a plastic chicken planter for cash drop-offs. (
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Two mobster brothers turned their Brooklyn childhood bedroom into a grown-up den for Mafia hits — nicknaming it “The Dungeon,” a witness testified yesterday.
Colombo crime family soldier Dino “Little Dino” Saracino, now on trial for three gangland slayings, used the Bensonhurst sublevel bedroom he once shared with his wiseguy brother, Sebastiano, for murdering two mobsters who were lured to their deaths, prosecutors say.
And this all happened, the witness testified, while their parents lived in the upstairs apartment in the same house, which was split into two units in a renovation.
At least one of the brothers lives in the downstairs apartment.
For the 1995 hit on Colombo associate Richie Greaves, they waited until their parents were away on a cruise in Italy, another witness testified.
“Dino said, ‘One day when we’re older and we’re in our rocking chairs, I’ll tell you about it,’ ” said the brothers’ former friend and fellow Colombo wiseguy David Gordon, who is now an FBI informant in the witness-protection program. “[Saracino] said, ‘We did Richie in The Dungeon,’ ” Gordon testified.
Greaves — who had a falling-out with his Colombo crew — was lured to the Saracinos’ basement and shot in the head, prosecutors say.
Both Dino Saracino, 39, and former Colombo street boss Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli, 59, are on trial for the Greaves hit and the 1999 killing of underboss William “Wild Bill” Cutolo.
Cutolo, too, was executed in the Saracino basement apartment, federal prosecutors say.
Saracino also directed debtors using his mob loan-sharking services to drop their cash payments inside a plastic chicken flower pot outside an exterior stairway that led to “The Dungeon,” Gordon testified.