 During the 1990s era, Scarabino is to have been inducted into the DeCavalcante crime family, under reputed captains Anthony Rotondo of Elizabeth, New Jersey and Philip Abramo of the New York faction in New York City.At the time, Scarabino's criminal activities were labor and construction racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion and murder, as he reportedly conspired to murder Daniel Annunziatta and even former acting boss and captain, Gaetano "Corky" Vastola, in the early 1990s on the orders of John D'Amato, who had been recruited by John Gotti into take over the DeCavalcante crime family after the imprisonment of Riggi in 1990.According to US law enforcement, Scarabino also helped organize the murder of former family underboss, Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso in 1991, in aid of the racketeering operations that Philip Abramo took over in New York.