Scarfo Acquitted in Mob Killing

A jury today acquitted reputed mob boss Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo and eight associates on all charges in the 1984 slaying of gang rival Salvatore Testa.

Scarfo raised his right hand in a near salute and grinned at the jury as it returned the verdicts. Spectators in the packed courtroom cheered and shouted. Scarfo, 59, and the eight other defendants were being tried for the Sept. 14, 1984, murder of Testa. Scarfo faces charges in two other murders. He was convicted last year of conspiring with a former city councilman to extort $1 million from a waterfront developer and is serving 14 years in prison on that conviction.