General Chicago Outfit Info Dumping Ground

[Villain]

Do we have any confirmation that Campagna was Riccas underboss and which years?

It seems that Harry Hockstein used to drive around Rio until the latter ones death, and after that, Hockstein became Nittos chauffeur.

Also Giancana either inherited the crew from Campagna which for me sounds more plausible, or he inherited the crew from Nitto....

There used to be semi-retired bosses who previously held positions like capos, bosses etc. and it seems that after his release, Campagna held that position together with Charlie Fish since both were highly respected until their deaths.

[Villain]

Some interesting info on Chuck Nicoletti...

- on February 25, 1929 at 7:30 pm Philip Sr. Nicoletti came home very drunk and with many abusive thoughts on his mind towards his own family. He started beating his own wife Grace and later he took a knife, pointed to his son and threatened to kill him. Chuckie, pursued by his drunken dad, ran into the bedroom and took the gun which was in a bureau drawer and pointed it in Philip’s direction and shot to death his own father. In other words, Chuckie Nicoletti “made his bones” when he was only 12 years old.

After the shooting, someone called the cops from the 23rd precinct and they arrived just to see the 39 year old Philip Sr. lying dead on the floor with his wife crying beside him and Chuckie with the gun in his hand standing in the corner of the room. The cops calmly approached Chuckie and took the gun from his hand. It was obvious who took the shot so Chuckie was taken to the police office for questioning.

Only two days later on February 27, the Cook County Coroner’s Office cleared Charles Nicoletti of his father’s death. Chuckie was exonerated and also commended for protecting his family because he was threatened by his drunk and knife-wielding father who caused Chuckie to do the intentional homicide. After his father’s death, two years later in 1931, Nicoletti dropped out of school in the 8th grade and at the age of 14 went for the street life.

- on May 10, 1943, Charles Nicoletti and Ernest Sansone were arrested by the Chicago police for peddling narcotics. On May 13, Nicoletti was sent to Midland, Michigan to serve 18 months in custody of the Attorney General. On December 24, 1944 Nicoletti was released from prison and went back to Chicago.

- Nicoletti was questioned regarding the October 8, 1948 murder of William John Granata, the Republican candidate who was running against State Representative and Outfit member James Adduci. Story goes that John and his brother Rep. Peter Granata, had refused to trade votes that they controlled on the West Side for the benefit of the Outfit and so Granata was found with his skull split wide open and was pronounced dead at the Henrotin Hospital.

- Nicoletti was also questioned regarding the September 25, 1950, murder of former Police Captain William Drury who in turn was killed by a close-range shotgun blast.

- Nicoletti was questioned regarding the February 6, 1952, murder of Charles Gross, a politician who wanted to become a Republican Committeeman in the 31st Ward. He was blown away by seven shotgun blasts outside his Kedzie Avenue home allegedly by two men. The only witness was Mrs. Julia Jankowski and she told the cops that after the shooting a big, black car sped past her followed by another car. She also described two men as 30 to 35 years old in the first car and other two men as 25 to 28 years old in the second car. Later she was taken she to the bureau of identification to study pictures of known hoodlums.

On February 25 1952, 35 year old Chuckie Nicoletti was arrested and questioned by Lt. John Golden of the police homicide division regarding the murder. He apparently was cleared of any connection with it by a lie detector, and later was released on $25 bond on a disorderly conduct charge.

- Nicoletti was also questioned regarding the murder of Tony Ragucci, who in August 1953, was riddled with bullets and stuffed with his head downward in a sewer near 35th st. and Winchester av. His brother managed to identify him by his ring with the initials "AR" since the rest of his body was ravaged.

- on August 18, 1954, Charlie Gioe was having dinner at a near north side restaurant at Erie St. with former deputy sheriff Vincent Occhipinti and Gio's lieutenant Hyman Weisman. After the dinner, Gioe and his companion Weisman entered their car at the parking lot, when a black car approached them and two men opened fire. Gioe was shot in the head and was instantly killed, but Weisman "miraculously" escaped unhurt.

Three days later, on August 21, Frank Maritote wanted to take his 4 year old son at the movie theatre. As they entered his car, which was parked in front of his house at 710 S. Keeler av., again a big black car showed up and two hitmen started blasting at Maritote as his young boy crouched in terror in the front seat of the car. Maritote also died instantly. On December 8, 1955 Alex Greenberg was having dinner with his wife and daughter at the Glass Dome Hickory Pit, 2724 S. Union av. As he was leaving, he was shot by two hitmen. Greenberg was a tough guy so he staggered after the men as they fled on foot. Greenberg collapsed about 12 feet of the curb. On December 10, 1955, 38 year old John Coletta was beaten to death and his body was poured with gasoline, and then set on fire in his car near suburban Harrington.

On the same day, police Lt. Joseph Morris, head of the police Scotland Yard criminal investigation unit received an anonymous phone call which instructed the lieutenant to go to a certain place if he wants to find the killers of Gioe, Maritote, Greenberg and Coletta. The lieutenant immediately gathered four of his undercover operatives and dozen of armed policemen and led a raid on a large brick garage in the rear of 936 S. Laflin st. which held one of biggest floating crap game in the city. The crap game, which operated every Sunday afternoon somewhere in the vicinity of Taylor and Laflin st. Alternate locations were a pool room and a hot dog stand at the Taylor-Laflin intersection.

That Sunday, four undercover cops, carrying sawed off shotguns under their overcoats, were allowed inside the garage building by the lookout and they found that the game was in progress. For 10 minutes they watched the crap game, conducted on the cement floor instead of tables. When the gangsters noticed the cops they ran for the door but were stopped by the rest of the policemen who were carrying submachine guns. The Scotland Yard police arrested 71 men, including some of the most prominent West Side.

According to the police records, one of the most important suspects was 42 year old Charles Nicoletti. Some of the other gangsters were John “Johnny Bananas” De Biase, James Cerone, Alex Mazzone, Tony Orlando and William Marzullo, the son of Alderman Vito Marzullo of the 25th Ward. Nine police wagons were needed to take the 71 suspects of the dice game to the old Scotland Yard station, 2075 Canalport av. The cops were seeking information about the slayings but nobody dared to talk and later everyone was bailed out by a professional Outfit bondsman. The cops believed that the evidences they obtained would stand up in court but they were wrong.

- in 1958 Nicoletti purchased $85,000 three flat apartment at 1638 N. 19th Ave. in Melrose Park. He ad interests in a club by the name of Cal-Lex at Lexington Street and had a legitimate income from commissions obtained from car dealers like Montgomery Automobile Sales and Denemark Cadillac Agency for referrals given to these agencies by him for making car purchases. He received a new Cadillac every year from the Denemark Agency. He also was employed as a potato salesman and owned a grocery store named La Joys on Taylor Street. He also owned three meat and vegetable markets on the near northwest side of Chicago.

- in 1958, Nicoletti's and Gus Alex's associate Nick Bravos was kidnapped by three individuals and was held for $75,000 ransom. George Bravos paid the ransom and Nick was released. Later the brothers complained to Nicoletti, because they knew what he was capable of. And they were right. Few days later the three individuals, one Greek and two Italians, were found beaten, stabbed and shot to death in a car trunk near Plainfield, Illinois.

- in September 1958, Nicoletti was described as a "big man" in the "syndicate" who was given one of the most lucrative districts

- on April 4, 1959 Nicoletti attended the wedding of one of Sam Giancana’s daughters, among other top hoodlums such as Paul Ricca, Tony Accardo, Eddie Vogel, Ross Prio, Frank LaPorte and Sam Battaglia.

- on May 2, !962, Nicoletti and Phil Alderisio were looking all around Chicago for Jimmy Moraglia and Billy McCarthy. But that’s when the cops showed up and took the two hit-men in on suspicion charges. They arrested the two in their black car which was previously mentioned in some of the murders that occurred in the 1950’s. Later the press dubbed the car as the infamous “hitmobile”. It was a dark collared sedan designed for committing murders. The car had three switches under the dashboard. Two of the switches disabled the taillights so it will make the car harder for tracking at night and the third switch opened hidden compartments that held an impressive collection of weapons and torture devices. The cops found the noted hitmen crouching on the floor of a hit car parked on a dark street. This is one example were Nicoletti’s and Alderisio’s creativity comes to light. The cops confiscated the car and few days later they were released as usual.

Besides that, later McCarthy was found with the help of Nicoletti's associates such as Tony Spilotro and according to Spilotro's guy Frank Cullotta, who years later became a government witness, Spilotro told him that Nicoletti was eating pasta when Billy's eye popped out during the torture. Under huge pain Billy gave the whereabouts of his friend Moraglia so in the end Spilotro slashed his throat with a sharp knife. Their target was soon located and Spilotro had his throat slit too. Their bodies were found in a trunk of a car on May 15th, 1962 on 55th Street in southwest Chicago.

- on December 21, 1963 Charles Nicoletti attended a meeting together with Chuck English, Jack Cerone and Sam Giancana at the Red Steer restaurant at 8800 West Grand and River Road in River Grove, Illinois. On December 27, 1963 Nicoletti attended another meeting with Charles English and Jack Cerone at the Red Steer restaurant.

- by the mid 1960s, Nicoletti became the sole owner of Al Piemonte Ford Co. at 25th and North Av. He also had interests in the Mars Oldsmobile Co. and purchased the land on which the Ford agency was built. Nicoletti opened up a restaurant on North Av. with Lou Nikolas and two other Greeks. Nicoletti also spread his legitimate businesses and also owned several condominiums in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He also had the police chief Dominic Cimino of Melrose Park in his back pocket. Nicoletti and Cimino were constantly seen together at Slicker Sam’s Saloon at 1911 Rice Street. The owner of the saloon was Sam “Slick” Rosa, who was a golfing partner of Sam Giancana and close associate of Nicoletti, operated a crap game at the place. During those days Nicoletti even expanded his gambling operations in northern Indiana with the help of Frank Zizzo and George Dicks.

- on February 8, 1968 Chuckie Nicoletti was arrested together with one of his associates Joe Scaramuzzo in his grocery during a raid on a bookmaking joint. The joint was operated by Nicoletti in a room at the rear of the food store which was owned by his wife, Agnes, at 1000 Loomis blvd. The bookie joint which handled an estimated $100,000 a month in horse bets. Besides gambling paraphernalia seized in the raid, the detectives confiscated a sawed- off shotgun, a .38 caliber revolver and a pamphlet which told how to "bug" police radio calls with a new electronic eavesdropping device. The cops also found a shotgun and a .38 caliber revolver in a room at the rear of the food store. On March 14, 1968 Nicoletti was taken to a trial. The findings and sentence were made by Judge Albert LaPlante who heard the two- hour case without a jury and in the end Nicoletti walked free and was fined only $200 in Domestic Relations court.

- on November 15, 1970 Nicoletti attended a meeting with Outfit members Mario DeStefano, Lenny and his brother Mike Patrick, in a North Western Avenue pizza parlor to share Louis Steinberg’s companionship, the president of Steinberg-Baum discount chain. Steinberg wrote checks, some as high as $900,000 and were cashed in different banks and than transferred to the chain’s 20 different subsidiaries or affiliates, with different corporate names which some were owned by Nicoletti and the Outfit. The FBI also received a report that in return, Nicoletti introduced Patrick to the narcotics trade on the West Side. Nicoletti pushed forward to the narcotics business because by now the government shot down most of the illegal gambling rackets.

- Nicoletti was questioned regarding the December 15, 1971 murder of Henry LaKey, one of the key witnessesin the trial agains Nicoletti's boss Sam Battaglia. LaKey's body was found in the trunk of a stolen car in Freeport, Illinois. He was viciously beaten and showed signs of knife wounds, cigarette burns and other various signs of torture.

- according to the feds, during 1972 Joey Aiuppa and Charles Nicoletti were the two top guys for the Outfit and allegedly divided the organization on two factions, "management" and "blazers".



- during December, 1972 the new acting mayor of Melrose Park, since the death of Jake LaSpisa, was August “Augie” Taddeo. Taddeo was the godson of Outfit boss Joey Aiuppa and close associate of Nicoletti. Vic Taddeo, Augie’s father, worked as a dealer in Cicero gambling games and also worked as a muscleman for Aiuppa. Nicoletti and Aiuppa played major role in placing Taddeo as the new mayor. Shortly before LaSpisa’s death Nicoletti was still the dominant force in Melrose Park politics.

Nicoletti had few nominates for the mayor spot. One was Ralph “Babe” Serpico who served as the Democratic Committeeman for Proviso Township. He did two stints in prison and was discovered by the press as the connection between the Chicago Outfit and the Democratic Party. So Nicoletti washed his hands of Serpico by refusing to intercede. The other guy was Lou Nikolas but Nikolas started bragging about this too early, telling people that he’s the next mayor and had the backing of the Chicago syndicate.The Outfit called on Nikolas he was told that not only he was not going to be the mayor but he also had to resign his job as trustee. That’s when Taddeo got in to the picture and became mayor.

- on February 7, 1973 there was a big meeting which was held at the SAC club in Melrose Park at the request of certain members and associates of the Chicago Outfit. Main figures at the meeting were Aiuppa and Nicoletti, followed by Tony Mastro, Tony “Bucky” Ortenzi, John Romano, Louis and Frank Karris, Rocky Montagna, attorney Vito Dalleo and mayor August Taddeo. There were also two uknown individuals who were brought by Montagna and also a cop only known as “Slim”. Montagna brought these two people, who allegedly came from the west, like Las Vegas or Los Angeles, to purchase a quarter of a million in stolen securities. The deal was done. Next, Aiuppa handed a brown paper sack filled with cash to “Slim”, who shortly after that departed from the meeting.

Next on the agenda was the quarrel between Ortenzi and the attorney Dalleo. Dalleo thought that Ortenzi was far beneath him mentally and socially, so he didn’t want to take orders from him. Suddenly some hard words started to be exchanged at the table but all ended when Aiuppa ordered Dalleo that he was to take orders from Ortenzi or else. Next, Nicoletti, Aiuppa, Taddeo and the Karris brothers discussed the new pub that the brothers wanted to front. Taddeo was ordered to see to it that they would not receive any troubles from the Melrose Park police.

Next subject was the discussion between Ortenzi and the two unknown people about Nicoletti’s and Aiuppa’s desire to purchase a building, that was recently burned down, for $75,000. They wanted to open a club which would be fronted by the Nikolas brothers. The deal was done. Last on the agenda was regarding the juice operations in Melrose Park, the members present at the meeting were have been told that they are now on their own, because the Outfit was afraid that the government agents were getting people to go on juice so as to trap the juice operators. The meeting lasted for half an hour and in the end everybody disappeared in different directions.

- in 1973, a fued erupted between Nicoletti and Alex regarding the narcotics racket. Nicoletti wanted for the organization to get openly involved in the racket, while Alex was against it.

- on July 15, 1973, James Leonetti was lured by one of his friends to Bill's Grill at 2300 W. North Av. At 3 am two masked men entered the tavern, grabbed him, spun him around and than shot him to death. Than they carefully placed a metal receptacle on his chest, which Leonetti had used to ply his trade. When the cops searched the scene they found about $300 in coins spread around in his car which was nearby the tavern. Nicoletti's guys left their message unmistakably for all those who could recognize it. Leonetti led a band of thieves that were preying on the receipts of mob-owned, coin-operated vending machines around the western suburbs.

- by 1977, all of Nicoletti’s illegal rackets faded away. He was 61 years old and had a legitimate business which was the Metropolitan Burial Vault Company at 1325 Main Street in Melrose Park. He constantly helped his workers like driving and loading the trucks. During this period Nicoletti diagnosed him with a metastatic lung cancer and the doctors advised him that he had only five months left to enjoy his life.

That same year, Nicoletti was visitied by government agents regarding the murders of Giancana and John Roselli, and so he told the agents that he was an old friend but didn’t have any comment about the murder. He also told the agents that he was struggling by trying to make a buck from his legitimate business. In the end Nicoletti commented that “crime does not pay today”. Than Nicoletti was asked if crime paid in the past years but he only shrugged his shoulders and with a grin on his face said “I don’t know”.

[Antiliar]

A couple items to add:

- According to some sources, after Willie "Potatoes" Daddono was handed a 15-year sentence, Nicoletti was put in charge of his crew.

- When Phil Alderisio was sent to prison in 1969, the Battaglia crew was turned over to Nicoletti, who ran it with the assistance of Nick Palermo.

- After Joe Lombardo was chosen to replace Sam Battaglia, who died at St. Anne's Hospital on September 7, 1973, it was revealed that Nicoletti was blocked from consideration by Accardo, who didn't find him trustworthy enough for the job.

- On December 3, 1975, Ned Bakes was killed. A Capone-era mobster and close friend of Paul Ricca's whose real name was was Ignatius Spacchesi, was allegedly killed on Nicoletti's orders. According to Frank Cullotta, Nicoletti entered his Chicago restaurant and told him that he was in trouble for ordering Bakes's death without permission and not having the authority. Cullotta believed Nicoletti was killed immediately afterward, but he was not killed until 1977.

- According to the Department of Justice, Nicoletti, who was murdered on March 29, 1977, had become a confidential informant before his death. The Outfit discovered this and Joseph Aiuppa ordered his Nicoletti's execution.

[Antiliar]

This is list compiled by Villain of all the Outfit hits in the 1970s. They didn't call Joe Aiuppa kill crazy for nothing.

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While doing some research on the Outfit chart from the late 20's till now, I also came across this one list from the 70's who me and some of the boys discussed some time ago and so I though about posting it for you guys. Also, big credit goes to Snakes since he was the one who started this list with 72 hits, while I later added 21 additional murders including their alleged executioners. In addition, this is a list of all Outfit-related killings (in Chicago and around the country) during that decade which portraits the Chicago crime family as one of the most, if not the top, murderous and individual crime family in the country during that period. My point is that this was the result of the previous and numerous FBI operations which occurred during the 1960's and almost destroyed the crime syndicate. Also, even anyone has any additional info, like a mistake or a conflicting report, or posses some missing info regarding other Outfit-related murders and hit men, please contribute...

1. March 21, 1970: Carmen Trotta (unknown)
2. August, 1970: Michael Albergo (Frank Calabrese)
3. September 28, 1970: Mario Sprovieri (possibly by Tony Spilotro)
4. January 2, 1971: Rosario Corriero (unknown)
5. June 17, 1971: Robert Pronger (William Dauber and Steve Ostrowsky)
6. October 19, 1971: Sam Cesario (Harry Aleman)
7. December 15, 1971: Henry LaKey (possibly Tony Spilotro)
8. March 10, 1972: Charles Carroll (unknown)
9. August 8, 1972: Guido Fidanzi (William Dauber)
10. September 2, 1972: Roger Croach (William Dauber and Donald Boye)
11. September 3, 1972: Mike Ragan (William Dauber and John Schnadenberg)
12. September 27, 1972: William Logan (Harry Aleman)
13. April 14, 1973: Sam DeStefano (Mario DeStefano and Tony Spilotro)
14. June 23, 1973: William Klim (NV) (Tony Spilotro)
15. November 22, 1973: Samuel Marcello (possibly by Wayne Cascone and James Erwin)
16. November 22, 1973: Joseph Grisafe (possibly by Wayne Cascone and James Erwin)
17. December 20, 1973: Richard Cain (Harry Aleman, Joey Lombardo and Frank Schweihs)
18. January 27, 1974: Wayne Cascone (James Erwin)
19. February 24, 1974: Socrates Rantis (Gerald Scarpelli and James Erwin)
20. April 21, 1974: William Simone (unknown)
21. June 14, 1974: Anthony Dichiarinte (possibly by Joey Lombardo)
22. July 13, 1974: Orion Williams (Harry Aleman)
23. September 27, 1974: Daniel Seifert (Frank Schweihs and Joseph Lombardo)
24. September 28, 1974: Robert Harder (Harry Aleman and possibly James Inendino)
25. December 27, 1974: Richard Mazzone (unknown)
26. January 16, 1975: Carlo DeVivo (Harry Aleman and possibly Frank Schweihs)
27. February 12, 1975: Jack West (AZ) (Nick D�Andrea and Robert Hardin)
28. February 15, 1975: Ed Lazar (AZ) (Nick D�Andrea and Robert Hardin)
29. April 29, 1975: Anthony Battaglia (unknown)
30. May 12, 1975: Ronald Magliano (Harry Aleman)
31. May 12, 1975: Marty Buccieri (NV) (possibly by Tony Spilotro)
32. June 5, 1975: Harry Holzer (MI) (Edward McCabe)
33. June 5, 1975: Linda Holzer (MI) (Edward McCabe)
34. June 19, 1975: Salvatore Giancana (Dominic Blasi and possibly Angelo LaPietra)
35. July 14, 1975: Christopher Cardi (Harry Aleman and William Petrocelli)
36. August 28, 1975: Frank Goulakos (Harry Aleman)
37. August 30, 1975: Nick Galanos (Harry Aleman)
38. September 6, 1975: Walter Wellington (IA) (unknown)
39. October 6, 1975: Louis Bombacino (AZ) (possibly by Paul Schiro and Tony Amadio)
40. October 31, 1975: Anthony Reitinger (Harry Aleman and William Petrocelli)
41. November 10, 1975: Tamara Rand (CA) (Tony Spilotro)
42. December 3, 1975: Ned Bakes (Gerald Scarpelli)
43. January 20, 1976: Frank DeLegge, Jr. (unknown)
44. January 31, 1976: Louis DeBartolo (Harry Aleman)
45. February 6, 1976: Rita Payonk (unknown)
46. June 24, 1976: Paul Haggerty (Nick and Frank Calabrese, Frank Saladino, Ronnie Jarrett)
47. May 1, 1976: James Erwin (Harry Aleman and possibly Jimmy Indendino)
48. June 13, 1976: Don Bolles (AZ) (John Harvey Adamson, William Rocco D'Ambrosio and Frank Mossuto)
49. August 9, 1976: Giovanni Roselli (FL) (unknown)
50. October 5, 1976: Steven Ostrowsky (Eldimiro DeJesus)
51. January 13, 1977: Norman Lang (William Dauber)
52. February 12, 1977: James Villareal (unknown)
53. February 12, 1977: Sam Rivera (unknown)
54. March 2, 1977: Ben Byer (unknown)
55. March 4, 1977: Patrick Marusarz (possibly by Jimmy Cozzo and John DiFronzo)
56. March 15, 1977: Henry Cosentino (Frank Calabrese and Ronnie Jarrett)
57. March 29, 1977: Charles Nicoletti (possibly by Harry Aleman and Frank Schweihs)
58. April 4, 1977: John Lourgos (unknown)
59. June 13, 1977: Richard Ferraro (Gerald Scarpelli)
60. June 14, 1977: Thomas McCarthy (William Petrocelli)
61. June 15, 1977: Joseph Theo (Gerald Scarpelli)
62. July 3, 1977: John Schneider (unknown)
63. July 12, 1977: Earl Abercrombie, Jr. (unknown)
64. July 13, 1977: Morris Saletko (unknown)
65. July 22, 1977: Mark Thanasouras (possibly by Jimmy Cozzo and John DiFronzo)
66. July 22, 1977: Joseph LaRose (possibly by Paul Schiro and Joey Hansen)
67. July 22, 1977: John Vische (possibly by Paul Schiro and Joey Hansen)
68. July 22, 1977: Donald Marchbanks (possibly by Paul Schiro and Joey Hansen)
69. July 22, 1977: Malcolm Russell (possibly by Paul Schiro and Joey Hansen)
70. July 25, 1977: Samuel Annerino (Joseph Scalise, William Petrocelli and Anthony Borsellino)
71. August 25, 1977: James Palaggi (unknown)
72. October 18, 1977: Ray Ryan (IN) (possibly by Marshall Caifano)
73. December 13, 1977: Leo Filippi (unknown)
74. December 22, 1977: Richard Crofton (unknown)
75. January 20, 1978: Bernard Ryan (John DiFronzo and possibly Jimmy Cozzo)
76. February 2, 1978: Steven Garcia (Nick and Frank Calabrese)
77. February 4, 1978: Vincent Moretti (Nick and Frank Calabrese, Ronnie Jarrett, Frank Sladino, John Fecarotta)
78. February 4, 1978: Donald Renno (Nick and Frank Calabrese, Ronnie Jarrett, Frank Sladino, John Fecarotta)
79. February 20, 1978: John Mendell (Nick and Frank Calabrese, Ronnie Jarrett, Frank Sladino)
80. March 17, 1978: Dino Valente (Nick D�Andrea)
81. April 3, 1978: Frank Smith, Jr. (unknown)
82. April 6, 1978: Robert Hertogs (Jack Farmer)
83. April 14, 1978: John McDonald (possibly by Anthony Borsellino and Gerald Carusiello)
84. July 28, 1978: James Catuara (possibly by Frank Schweihs)
85. September 8, 1978: Melvin Young (Robert Siegel)
86. September 27, 1978: Robert Vaca (possibly by Jimmy Inendino)
87. March 11, 1979: George Christofalos (Anthony Borsellino, Gerald Scarpelli and Jerry Scalise)
88. April, 1979: Robert Hatridge (OH) (possibly by Jerry Scalise)
89. May 22, 1979: Anthony Borsellino (Gerald Scarpelli)
90. June 1, 1979: Timothy O'Brien (Gerald Scarpelli)
91. September 28, 1979: Gerald Carusiello (Gerald Scarpelli)
92. October 10, 1979: Sherwin Lisner (NV) (Frank Cullotta)
93. November 14, 1979: Michael Oliver (William Petrocelli, Robert Salerno, Gerry Scarpelli, Joseph Scalise, Michael Sarno and Salvatore Cataudella
94. December, 12, 1979: Henry Lopez (IN) (Edelmiro DeJesus)

Also what do you guys think about the Jay Vandermark alleged murder and the Marty Buccieri one, meaning were they positively Outfit-related? Because if they were, then the list might rise to almost 100 hits...

[Snakes]

I thought the affidavit about Nicoletti being an informant was just an agent's reasoning for why Aiuppa had him killed. I didn't think there was an actual federal document or record naming Nicoletti as such. Only that Aiuppa thought he was informing and had him killed.

[Antiliar]

I thought the affidavit about Nicoletti being an informant was just an agent's reasoning for why Aiuppa had him killed. I didn't think there was an actual federal document or record naming Nicoletti as such. Only that Aiuppa thought he was informing and had him killed.

I haven't seen the actual affidavit, but Nicholas Gage of the New York Times in an October 2, 1977 article said that Nicoletti was an informant.

[Villain]

Thanks for the additional info guys.

Btw, can we also pin the Maniaci hit on Nicoletti too?

[Antiliar]

Thanks for the additional info guys.

Btw, can we also pin the Maniaci hit on Nicoletti too?

Nicoletti was id'd as the driver of the hit car, so it counts.
https://www.archives.gov/files/research ... 318125.pdf

[Snakes]

I thought the affidavit about Nicoletti being an informant was just an agent's reasoning for why Aiuppa had him killed. I didn't think there was an actual federal document or record naming Nicoletti as such. Only that Aiuppa thought he was informing and had him killed.

I haven't seen the actual affidavit, but Nicholas Gage of the New York Times in an October 2, 1977 article said that Nicoletti was an informant.

I have just seen an article stating the agent's affidavit describing Nicoletti as an "alleged" informant. He could very well be, I'm just wondering if Gage had more than just the affidavit to go on for his decision.

[Antiliar]

Gage often got access to information the rest of us could only dream about. Possibly related is that the FBI has refused to release his file for years.

[Villain]

Thanks for the additional info guys.

Btw, can we also pin the Maniaci hit on Nicoletti too?

Nicoletti was id'd as the driver of the hit car, so it counts.
https://www.archives.gov/files/research ... 318125.pdf

Thanks bud.

It is also interesting to note that several years after his father's murder, Nicoletti’s mother Grace remarried to another man named Paul Tergo, who in turn was allegedly an old associate of the Capone gang. It seems some time later Tergo was sent to prison and later was deported to Italy. The exact dates are not known. Do we have any additional info on this Tergo fella?

[Antiliar]

It looks like she married a Sam Terzo in 1920/1930. He was born in 1892 and may be the same as Charles Terzo in the 1910 census. Then it appears that she married a Joseph Terzo in Hot Springs in 1951. Maybe Sam/Charles Terzo died after he was deported and she married the younger brother or a cousin (Joseph was born in 1897). Sam Terzo was sent to prison in 1933 for embezzlement and deported in 1937.

[Villain]

It looks like she married a Sam Terzo in 1920/1930. He was born in 1892 and may be the same as Charles Terzo in the 1910 census. Then it appears that she married a Joseph Terzo in Hot Springs in 1951. Maybe Sam/Charles Terzo died after he was deported and she married the younger brother or a cousin (Joseph was born in 1897). Sam Terzo was sent to prison in 1933 for embezzlement and deported in 1937.

Thanks a lot bud. Damn, it seems Nicoletti's mom was quite busy lol i wonder if he inherited the looks from her lol

So were some of Nicolettis stepfathers associated to the mob? I can also see one Pete Terzo in 1933 who was quite a troublemaker...

[Villain]

New York racketeer Louis Lepke Buchalter being allegedly present on a Mob meeting in Chicago in 1934 regarding the selection of president of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees...

[Pogo The Clown]

New York racketeer Louis Lepke Buchalter

Those were some tough Jews.


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