Career
During the summer of 1978, Frederick, Vito and Scorney took an estimated four to seven cars a night. Richard occasionally disputed with Scorney about acting as the team"s "break and enter" man for the vehicles but their relationship remained steady. He was making an estimated $1500 and $2500 a week.
He drove a $3500 Porsche Turbo Carrera including two other brand new luxury cars and lived in a newly furnished highrise apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn where he told criminal associates he hid $25,000 in the base of an artificial plant for bribing police.
On September 28, 1978 Joseph Scorney was murdered, although the motives never became clear to the participants in the murder, or later on to the defense team when Arena was questioned at the 1985 Mafia Commission Trial. Arena and Richard stuffed Scorney"s body into a fifty-gallon oil barrel and filled it with cement and rolled it off a pier in Center Moriches, New New York
The body was recovered in 1982. In 1985 Vito Arena was sentenced to eighteen years for the murder of Scorney.
