Of all the murder and racketeering charges that are pending against New York area wiseguys - and there are a slew of them – the ones against Luchese soldier Frank (Frankie Pearl) Federico are the most heinous of all.

Federico, 76, is charged with executing brothers-in-law Robert Kubecka and Donald Barstow at the East Northport L. I. offices of their family business because they refused to knuckle under to the mob and cooperated with authorities. Trial starts next month.

The murder victims were hard working family men, not wiseguys or wannabes who were whacked over some venal mob dispute over respect or lack thereof.

At about 6 AM on August 10, 1989, according to court papers, Frankie Pearl and a cohort barged into the tiny office of the men’s private carting business and, during a violent, bloody struggle, shot them to death on orders from his mob superiors.

After a federal grand jury targeted him as a suspect in 1993, Federico went on the lam, not to be caught until he stopped in for a donut on East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx a year ago. But he now claims that he couldn’t have killed the men because at that moment, he was far from the murder scene. He was hard at

work, at Pandick Press on Broadway in Manhattan, and there are lots of people who can attest to that.

His alibi witnesses include John Lee, who worked nearby at the Hot Line Delivery Service at 10 West 47th St., and four of Lee’s co-workers – Lee’s brother-in-law, his helper, and two Chinese brothers who also worked there. These last potential witnesses could be hard to locate. They are listed as FNU LNU #1, #2, #3, and #4 – as in first name unknown, last name unknown.

But Frankie Pearl does know the names of a litany of pals he says can also provide him with an alibi. People like mobster Rocco Vitulli, the second alleged triggerman, and Luchese wiseguys Vittorio (Vic) Amuso, Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, (left) George (Georgie Goggles) Conte, George (Georgie Neck) Zappola, Frank (Frankie Bones) Papagni (right) and Frank Giaccobe. Except for Vitulli, who served a few years for unrelated gambling charges, all are in prison, convicted of playing their own roles in the conspiracy to kill Kubecka and Barstow.

Don’t laugh. In court papers, Frankie Pearl’s lawyer, Paul Testaverde, has demanded that assistant U.S. attorneys William Gurin and Michael Warren arrange for the incarcerated felons to be transferred from federal prisons around the country to the federal lockup in Brooklyn for a reunion with Federico, where he awaits trial.

Testaverde did not respond to numerous calls seeking details on the defense strategy, but Federico, who is orchestrating the alibi portion of his defense, apparently hopes to elicit testimony from some or all of them that he wasn’t

involved. Frankie Pearl initially listed Salvatore Avellino, (left) the Luchese capo who ran the family's Long Island garbage rackets, and his brother Carmine, as alibi witnesses, but recently took them off his list.

As for a trail of blood at the murder scene that an FBI analysis has determined to be Federico’s, Testaverde claims that authorities have framed his client.

“It is our position,” Testaverde wrote the court, “that there has been a government conspiracy in this case which involves the police taking the blood seized from the defendant on Jan. 29, 2003 and illegally substituting the defendant’s seized blood into blood vials intentionally and erroneously marked as blood taken from the crime scene.”

In court papers, prosecutors Gurin and Warren had a different take on their blood evidence and Frankie Pearl’s proposed alibi defense.

They in court papers noted that when the feds drew blood samples from Federico, he seemed to know the blood would match the specimens found at the murder scene 14 years ago, and tried to explain it away.

After the blood was taken, they wrote, Frankie Pearl said: “There was a lot of shooting that day, a lot of shots, there was a lot going on. You don’t know the whole story, there’s always two sides to the fence, there’s a lot of people.”

Not too many attendees at John Gotti’s wake recognized the stocky dark-haired mourner with a white suit and tie who showed up to pay respects to the late Dapper Don with a Bronx crew of wiseguys under capo Salvatore (Tore) Locascio.

But the crime family’s hierarchy knew that Andrew (Andrew Campo) Campos (right) was an important friend of theirs, and a key player in a huge moneymaking scheme that poured millions of dollars into the crime family’s coffers.

Campos, 34, operated eight shell companies around the country that generated $50,000 to $600,000 a day from 1997 to 2001 in an innovative and ingenious “telephone cramming scheme” that grossed over $200 million with a cool $100 million in profits, according to a massive racketeering and money laundering indictment filed this week.

FBI agents arrested Campos at his $1 million dollar home in Eastchester without incident. Campos was inducted into the crime family recently, and quickly moved up to acting capo by acting boss Arnold (Zeke) Squitieri because he views Campos as a “moneymaker,” sources said.

Although the Campos surname suggests a Greek ancestry, his father’s lineage is Italian, according to a law enforcement source who told Gang Land the crime family conducted an extensive investigation into his heritage before he was “made.”

The “cramming” scam was similar to an Internet fraud scheme that Locascio, (left) soldier Richard Martino and

associate Zef Mustafa (right) allegedly used to bilk thousands of unwitting world wide web consumers of $230 million by falsely promising “free tours” of porn sites and billing their credit cards without authorization instead.

In the telephone “cramming scheme,” callers dialing an “800” number that promised free chat lines, dating services, phone sex and other services instead had their phone numbers logged and billed an average of $40 a month for voice mail service they never requested or received, according to assistant U.S. attorneys Andrew Genser, Eric Komitee, Tracey Knuckles and Sharon Volckhausen.

The charges were placed on consumers’ phone bills by a mob controlled company – a so-called “billing aggregator” – that entered into billing and collection agreements with telephone companies that allowed the wiseguy firm to insert a bill page into the phone company bills.

The scheme was the crime family’s most profitable enterprise and probably generated even more cash than the family leaders realized, according to some federal law enforcement officials.

“I think the bosses are going to be a little surprised by the numbers in this case,” said one law enforcement official, adding, “and who knows how much we missed.”

In addition to Campos, Locascio, Mustafa and Martino, (left) three other Gambino associates are charged with racketeering in a 20 count indictment that seeks to forfeit $430 million in assets from the defendants. Three others and USP&C Inc., the company used to facilitate the telephone cramming scheme, are charged with mail and wire fraud.