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Two Gambino soldiers who reputedly helped onetime underboss Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano execute one of his 19 murder victims have joined their former boss in the Big House.

Frank Fappiano (No. 4) and Joseph  D'Angelo (No. 3), who were seen joking with Gravano (No. 7) a day after they allegedly killed contractor Edward Garofalo outside his Brooklyn home, began federal prison terms of 51 and 57 months respectively.

But what sent Fappiano, 37, and D'Angelo, 31, to prison has nothing to do with murder. Instead, the two pleaded guilty to extortion and distributing marijuana in Brooklyn from 1993 to 1995.

Prosecutors Jim Walden and Christopher Blank alleged in court papers that both were participants in the Aug. 8, 1990 execution but neither was ever charged with the crime. Gravano supervised the killing of Garafalo, a mob associate who drew the wrath of John Gotti and was ordered killed by the

Fappiano, the alleged triggerman in the hit, earned membership in the crime family through his actions, according to FBI reports.

D'Angelo, who joined Gravano's crew in the 1980's after his father was killed  in a gangland feud, was inducted years later, sources said. He showed up in Brooklyn Federal Court and tried to intimidate Gravano when he took the witness  stand against Gotti in1992. (Ruth Pollack sketch, left.)

Joining the duo in the joint, is another Gambino associate, Joseph Serrano, 30, who was acquitted of a racially motivated murder of a black youth in 1989. Serrano pleaded guilty to extortion and pot charges and began serving a 51 month sentence this week.

While all three men received similar prison terms, Fappiano's reaction was markedly different than those registered by D'Angelo and Serrano when Judge Edward Korman lowered the boom.

Fappiano smiled when he got the minimum, instead of the maximum -- 63 months. D'Angelo and Serrano, who could have gotten 46 or 41 months, respectively, grimaced when they heard their numbers. Each got the high end due to cocaine dealing that, while not part of their guilty pleas, was included in sentencing reports about the two men.

Noting that sentencing guidelines force him to mete out four and five year sentences to "mules" who get nabbed bringing coke into the U.S., Korman said he felt duty bound to give the maximum to D'Angelo and Serrano.

Meanwhile, Gravano (right) remains in the Maricopa County jail on $5 million bail awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges. And Brooklyn Federal Judge I. Leo Glasser, who gave Gravano five years for crimes that include 19 murders, holds a hearing tomorrow to decide if prosecutors can have more time to find  witnesses to replace him at the jury tampering trial of Bosko Radonjich.

Joseph Ida was upset by our account last week that told of his recent plea deal that will allow him to have choice cuts of meat delivered to his home from his favorite butcher while he serves six months for loansharking -- at his Staten Island home.

Ida, 63, wasn't upset about our characterization of the plea as a good deal, or our assertion -- based on court records -- that he has reputedly gotten away with murder and mayhem during a life of crime.

What angered Ida (right) was the allegation -- repeated over and over again in a 27-count  indictment -- that Bova's Meat Market at 8020 13th Avenue in Brooklyn was a hub of criminal activity for Ida and his crew. Ida picked up envelopes containing loanshark payments there; he went into the back room to count money; he met with cohorts there to discuss old loans and arrange new ones, according to the indictment.

"My client is very upset because  Joe Bova is the best butcher in Brooklyn and had nothing to do with my client's business, whatever it may have been," said Ida's attorney James DiPietro.

"He sells the finest cuts of meat; people from all over Brooklyn shop there; and he's as honest as the day is long. Don't believe me or my client, believe (Brooklyn District Attorney) Joe Hynes. He said so in a letter he sent him," said DiPietro, who provided us the letter. (left)

Indeed, like Ida, DA Hynes likes the fine cuts of meat at Bova's, but the letter he sent Bova in 1996 was like 30,000 he sent to stores that agreed to be "safe havens" for school kids under attack from street gangs or bullies until police could get there, said spokesman Kevin Davitt.

"Happy Anniversary in Heaven," began one she placed from her son John, his wife, and four children. "You will remain close to our hearts forever. We wish you were here with us."

While riding a borrowed motorized minibike, Frank was struck by a car and killed as he darted out from behind a dumpster on 157th Ave in Howard Beach, Queens, about six blocks from his home.

Each year, on Frank's birthday and the anniversary of his death, his mother has shared her grief with Daily News readers.

"If I could have protected you from the world, I would have. I will forever long for you," she told her son, signing it: "With love, Mom and Dad."

"You are in my heart, my mind, my very being....I love you baby brother," said one in the name of her daughter Victoria, her   husband Carmine Agnello, and their three sons.

In a cruel irony, the paper placed a news item about the Gotti family on the same page as the memorials. A story at the top of the page reported that a federal magistrate judge had ruled that Agnello was a danger to the community and had been held without bail to await trial on extortion, arson and racketeering charges.

You'd think the Gotti clan, whose carryings on helped sell thousands of tabloid papers, would be allowed to grieve for a lost son without being reminded on the same page about their never-ending legal troubles.