by PolackTony » Fri Jun 07, 2024 9:20 pm
Ivan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 9:06 pm
Patrickgold wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:38 pm
Scott just put up an article on his website saying Albert (Ragtime Al) Rapuano was the Outfit’s top guy in Vegas after the Spilotro’s. Has anyone else heard this? Rapeando was from the East Coast, not Chicago. I knew about him but never heard he was their top guy.
Article says he was born in New Haven and made his way to Chicago in the 1960s, where he became manager of the Palmer House hotel in the Loop.
Yeah, that was in Rapuano’s obit (he died in 2022). He was from New Haven (born Albert John Rapuano in 1942) and went to Fordham for business and then the army, after which he moved to Chicago and worked at the Palmer House. He wound up going out to Vegas and became President of the Riviera and one of the top managers of the MGM Grand. So he clearly did have a longer term connection to Chicago predating his time in Vegas. Hotel employees union was also of course super mobbed up back then too, so if he was running a big hotel like the Palmer House in the 60s he likely would have already had some contact with outfit elements at this time.
I don’t recall having ever seen anything stating that he was specifically an affiliate of the Chicago Family in any formal way though. He also wasn’t full Ital (mother’s maiden name was Munz), though I don’t think Scott is trying to say that he was a member.
Wikipedia claims that the manager of Crazy Horse Too, Henry Rapuano — who died in 1983 — was his dad, but I don’t believe that was correct. Albert Rapuano’s dad was Albert Rapuano Sr, who died in 1989 in CT. The Henry Rapuano in Vegas was likely a relative of some sort though, as he was also from CT.
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Scott just put up an article on his website saying Albert (Ragtime Al) Rapuano was the Outfit’s top guy in Vegas after the Spilotro’s. Has anyone else heard this? Rapeando was from the East Coast, not Chicago. I knew about him but never heard he was their top guy.
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Article says he was born in New Haven and made his way to Chicago in the 1960s, where he became manager of the Palmer House hotel in the Loop.
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Yeah, that was in Rapuano’s obit (he died in 2022). He was from New Haven (born Albert John Rapuano in 1942) and went to Fordham for business and then the army, after which he moved to Chicago and worked at the Palmer House. He wound up going out to Vegas and became President of the Riviera and one of the top managers of the MGM Grand. So he clearly did have a longer term connection to Chicago predating his time in Vegas. Hotel employees union was also of course super mobbed up back then too, so if he was running a big hotel like the Palmer House in the 60s he likely would have already had some contact with outfit elements at this time.
I don’t recall having ever seen anything stating that he was specifically an affiliate of the Chicago Family in any formal way though. He also wasn’t full Ital (mother’s maiden name was Munz), though I don’t think Scott is trying to say that he was a member.
Wikipedia claims that the manager of Crazy Horse Too, Henry Rapuano — who died in 1983 — was his dad, but I don’t believe that was correct. Albert Rapuano’s dad was Albert Rapuano Sr, who died in 1989 in CT. The Henry Rapuano in Vegas was likely a relative of some sort though, as he was also from CT.