Thomas Kapatos, also known as "The Greek" (died January 22, 1977) was a New York mobster and an enforcer to Mickey Spillane

Mickey Spillane (gangster)

Michael Spillane, much better known as Mickey Spillane , was an Irish-American mobster from Hell's Kitchen, New York City...

 during his war against Jimmy Coonan during the 1960s. He was born to Greek-American emigrants from Karpathos

Karpathos

Karpathos is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. From its remote position Karpathos has preserved many...

 and his last name "Kapatos" is derived from the island. On the afternoon of January 22, 1977, Kapatos was gunned down on West 34th Street by a hired assassin in the employ of Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno

Anthony Salerno

Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno was a New York mobster who served as front boss of the Genovese crime family to family boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante from the 1970s until his conviction in 1986...

; he had been one of many of who had been killed in a six month killing spree to secretly eliminate Spillane's associates.