Talk:Gregory Scarpa, Sr.

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Possible slander on living person[edit]

Author does not provide any proof that DelVecchio was committing criminal acts. This man was recently acquitted of all charges against him in a prominent court case.Rogermx 20:15, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How can it be slander when I have listed my source. - RedNeckIQ55

The source is from a site that is pay-per-view (in other words, cannot be verified by most) and seems to be written by Scarpa's son; that would be fine if it were absolutely true and multi-sourced, but one person accusing another of something does not pass BLP. At the least, the words "allegedly" need to be placed in the article, and I'm going to do so. As has been stated above, DeVecchio was cleared in both a state criminal court case, along with a Justice Department investigation many years ago. (Slander is spoken, libel is written. While truth is a defense to libel, the burden is on the writer to prove the truth of what they're saying.) --Gloriamarie (talk) 22:49, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speculation in Mississippi Burning case[edit]

Just because his girlfriend says he did, doesn't mean he was the one who got someone to give up the location of the murdered civil rights workers. Are we to ignore the sources that say the location of the bodies was revealed by a highway patrolman named Maynard King? VolatileChemical (talk) 04:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article Needs to be Updated[edit]

There is a huge gap in the life chronology of this page. An episode was mentioned of how he escaped a mob hit while driving his girls to school in 1991, then just 3 years later he died in prison of AIDS in 1994.

But there is absolutely no information on how Scarpa Sr, who was stated to be an FBI informant, ended up in prison. Nothing about his trial, what he was tried for, how he was able to be imprisoned despite his relationship with the FBI. This is just a shoddy article with such a gaping omission. eYeDEF (talk) 15:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]