Giuseppe "Pino" Greco (1950 - September 1985) was a hitman and member of the Sicilian Mafia. A number of sources refer to him exclusively as Pino Greco although Giuseppe was his Christian name; "Pino" is a frequent abbreviation of the name Giuseppe.
Not a great deal of information is available about his early life except that he came from a
long line of Mafiosi. His
family, the Greco Mafia
family, were prominent Mafiosi (he was a distant relative of Salvatore Greco) and he is believed to have joined the Mafia sometime in the late 1970s. His
father was also a Mafiosi nicknamed Scarpa, Sicilian for "Shoe", hence Giuseppe'
s nickname of Scarpuzzedda; "Little Old Shoe".