Alphonse D'Arco
PER
Alphonse D'Arco D'Arco
Bruce Cutler was sparring with a government witness, one Alphonse D'Arco, former acting boss of the Luchese family, whom the government had called to establish that Mr. Eppolito and Mr. Caracappa had had a long relationship with another mobster, Anthony Casso, the Luchese family underboss. Both the witness and the lawyer are what used to be called men's men, Mr. D'Arco, a Korean war veteran who worked in the trucking trade before he joined the mob; and Mr. Cutler, a broad-beamed former high school wrestler. The problems began when Mr. Cutler asked Mr. D'Arco if he had any moral compunction while committing murder, and the witness, after asking Mr. Cutler to define moral, telling him to keep his voice downreferring to him as pal. This was schoolyard stuff, and Mr. Cutler jabbed back saying that he is not his pal.