In September 1984, Sessa murdered Mary Bari, a former girlfriend of then Colombo consigliere Alphonse Persico.
Suspecting Bolino of robbing his dealers, Sessa shot him one time in the head on a street corner in Bayside.
Costa was a master safecracker for the Bypass Gang, a highly skilled group of bank robbers run by Lucchese mobster Anthony Casso in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
In 1990, three years after becoming a made man in the Colombo family, Carmine Persico had appointed Sessa as consigliere.
[7] On June 20, 1991, Sessa, Robert Zambardi, John Pate, and Hank Smurra went to Orena's Long Island, New York home to ambush and kill him.
On April 8, 1993, Sessa and other Colombo mobsters were arrested while attending a secret meeting outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
He told sentencing judge Jack Weinstein, "I hate everything about the life I led, and I hope that it ends soon because it keeps destroying families and kids who are infatuated with it and can't wait to be 'goodfellas.'
"[10] In October 2007, Sessa testified at the corruption trial of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Lindley DeVecchio.