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".