College student feared buried with mobsters

By The Associated Press

Saturday, October 4, 2008 11:26 PM EDT

EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. - Investigators suspect that a missing college student may be buried with two mobsters at a site on Long Island, according to a published report.
The Pace University student, 21-year-old Carmine Gargano Jr., disappeared in 1994 after leaving his family's Brooklyn home.

Authorities believe that Gargano's body may be buried at a site in East Farmingdale where a team of FBI agents and police have been digging since Wednesday.

Newsday said investigators received information from an informant who claimed the undergrad was killed in a revenge plot aimed at his cousin - a member of the Luchese crime family involved in a dispute with a Colombo crime family associate.

John Pappa, a Colombo associate, was at first suspected in the student's murder. Pappa is now in prison after being convicted in four other murders involving the Colombo family, but he denies involvement in Gargano's disappearance or killing. His attorney, Michael Bachner, said that if the government had any proof, they would have indicted his client by now. The lawyer calls it “basically a Sopranos-type story.”

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