Anthony Casso

Anthony Casso
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance photograph of Casso (right) with Lucchese family boss, Vittorio Amuso (left)
Born	Anthony Salvatore Casso (1940-05-24) May 24, 1940 (age 76) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality	Italian-American
Other names	Gaspipe
Criminal penalty	455 years in prison
Spouse(s)	Lillian Delduca (1968–2005)
Children	2
Allegiance	Lucchese crime family
Conviction(s)	March 15, 1994 (pleaded guilty)

Anthony Salvatore "Gaspipe" Casso (born May 21, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an Italian-American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family. During his career in organized crime, Casso was regarded as a "homicidal maniac" in the American Mafia, single-handedly killing over 40 to 50 people, and ordering as many as 100 or more murders. Former Lucchese captain and government witness Anthony Accetturo once said of Casso, "all he wanted to do is kill, kill, get what you can, even if you didn't earn it."

In interviews and on the witness stand, Casso has confessed involvement in the murders of Frank DeCicco, Roy DeMeo, and Vladimir Reznikov. Casso has also admitted to several attempts to murder Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.

Following his arrest in 1993, Casso became one of the highest-ranking members of the Mafia to turn informer. In 1998, however, the United States Federal Government rescinded Casso's plea agreement and dropped him from the witness protection program. Later that year, a federal judge sentenced him to 455 years in prison.

Casso's life was documented in the 2008 true crime book, Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss, by Philip Carlo.

Born in South Brooklyn, Casso was the youngest of the three children of Michael and Margaret Casso (née Cucceullo). Each of Casso's grandparents had emigrated from Campania, Italy, during the 1890s. His godfather was Salvatore Callinbrano, a made man and captain in the Genovese crime family, who maintained a powerful influence on the Brooklyn docks. Casso dropped out of school at 16 and got a job with his father as a longshoreman. As a young boy, Casso became a crack shot, firing pistols at targets on a rooftop which he and his friends used as a shooting range. Casso also made money shooting predatory hawks for pigeon tenders. Casso stood at 5'6 and weighed 185 pounds.