- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAnthony Salvatore Casso
- Nickname
- Gaspipe
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Anthony Casso was born on May 21, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Lillian Delduca. He died on May 15, 2020 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- SpouseLillian Delduca(May 4, 1968 - February 28, 2005) (her death, 2 children)
- Was introduced to guns by his father, a Mafia hitman who would take him hunting in upstate New York on weekends.
- Youngest of three children.
- Got the nickname "Gaspipe" because he always carried a small lead pipe from a gas main; if anyone should insult or agitate him ,he would assault them with it.
- American Mafia gangster, with New York's Lucchese crime family. Pleaded guilty to over 100 crimes, including 36 murders. Sentenced to 12 consecutive life terms in 1994, then became an informant for the FBI and was placed in the Witness Protection Program. He was dropped from that program after several infractions. In 1998 he was sentenced by a federal judge to 455 years in prison. Died in a federal penitentiary in 2020.
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