Reputed Colombo wiseguy could be deported for concealing crimes on immigration application (NY Daily News)

Reputed Colombo wiseguy could be deported for concealing crimes on immigration application

BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, December 2nd 2010, 4:00 AM

A reputed Colombo soldier pleaded guilty Tuesady to concealing a slew of crimes - including disposing of a murder victim whacked in his Brooklyn home - on his immigration application.

Sebastiano (Sebby) Saracino, 43, could face deportation to Italy as a consequence of the guilty plea in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Saracino applied for citizenship in 2002, saying in a sworn statement that he had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested, and that he was not a member of any "organization" or "society."

He never followed through with providing his fingerprints, so the application was dormant for years.

The feds dug it up after Colombo family informants began spilling the beans about crimes that Saracino had gotten away with.

In 1995, mob associate Richard Greaves was fatally shot in Saracino's basement and transported in Saracino's Jeep Wrangler to an industrial park in Long Island, where the corpse was buried in a freshly dug grave, according to court papers.

Also in the mid-1990s, Saracino was part of a team that attempted to burglarize a bank on Long Island.

The diminutive gangster hid inside a makeshift wall constructed around the night deposit box.

Saracino was not required to confess to a particular crime, but told Federal Judge Brian Cogan yesterday that he had torched a building that he owned in Coney Island.

Sources told the FBI that Saracino was inducted into the Colombo family in 2004. His younger brother, Dino, also is a wiseguy and is awaiting trial for racketeering and murder.

Saracino faces up to 14 months in prison at his sentencing.