Milwaukee Hit List

[furiofromnaples]

https://gangsterreport.com/milwaukee-mo ... gangsters/

1931 - Giovanni Masina* - 1931 [Racine]

May 23, 1931 - Frank Aiello was murdered on May 23, 1931 at the age of 35 while playing cards in the kitchen of his home with his brothers-in-law. The killers stood by the side of the window and killed Frank with 12-gauge shotguns.

June 8, 1937 - William Dentice

March 18, 1954 - John (Johnny D) Di Trapani – A popular and flashy Milwaukee mob capo, Johnny D got into a beef in Chicago with leaders of the Outfit and wound up dead on March 18, 1954, discovered slumped behind the wheel of his black Cadillac on a westside street corner, his body riddled with six bullets from an automatic pistol. Di Trapani was seen dining at Chico’s BBQ (owned by local gangster Frank LoGalbo) with his family the night before his slaying and then attending a meeting at a downtown night club later that evening. FBI documents related to the investigation into Johnny D’s murder allude to Windy City mafia power Felix (Milwaukee Phil) Alderisio ordering the hit, said to be related to a dispute over money tied to mutual rackets and bar businesses in Illinois.

November 29, 1955 - Giacomo "Jack" Enea&John DiTrapani - Shortly after becoming boss, Alioto was faced with an insurrection. John DiTrapani, relative and godson of Sam Ferrara, plotted with Frank LoGalbo and Jack Enea to take control of the crime family. The rebellion was put down with the murders of John DiTrapani and Jack Enea in 1954. Frank LoGalbo avoided a similar fate by quickly transfering out of the Milwaukee crime family and into a Chicago Outfit regime in Chicago Heights. He continued to reside in Milwaukee under Chicago protection.

Jan 9, 1960 - Izzy Pogrob – The portly and jovial Jewish nightclub owner and Wisconsin mob associate was whacked Jan 9, 1960, found shot nine times, bound and blindfolded in a ditch. His death certificate was signed after he squealed on Milwaukee Mafioso Louie Fazio to police in a beef over a shakedown attempt. Pogrob owned hot night spots in the Cheese State and down in Florida, businesses the FBI believed a series of wiseguys held interests in.

January 7, 1963 - Anthony Biernat – Based out of Kenosha, Biernat was a mobbed-up jukebox and vending machine operator and tangled with mafia crews in Milwaukee and Chicago, leading to his vicious January 7, 1963 slaying. When his body was finally uncovered in a makeshift shallow farmhouse grave, he was hogtied and had been bludgeoned to death, his skulled cracked open in four spots. The Milwaukee FBI office tapped Frank Balistrieri, the city’s crime family’s new boss, Stevie De Salvo his underboss and top-tier associate Frankie Stelloh, as the prime suspects and the orchestrators of the murder, but never charged them with the hit.

September 27, 1972 - Louie Fazio – The 58-year old “big shot” Milwaukee crime family soldier and Wisconsin restaurateur couldn’t get along with local mafia boss Frank Balistrieri either and was killed September 27, 1972, gunned down at 6:45 a.m. outside his home getting into his car. Fazio served 12 years in prison (1946-1958) for the March 1946 gangland slaying of Kenosha wiseguy Mike Farina, who had just robbed a house of a Milwaukee mobster weeks earlier. In the year leading up to his murder, Fazio and Balistrieri fell out over the amount of tribute payments Frankie Bal was receiving, which he felt needed to be higher and Fazio balked at.

September 11, 1975 - Augie Maniaci – Longtime Milwaukee mafia chief that was increasingly insubordinate, power-hungry and believed to be cooperating with the FBI, Maniaci, 66, was shot to death outside his eastside home as he went to leave for work on the morning of September 11, 1975. Maniaci was openly bickering with his boss, Wisconsin Godfather Frank (Frankie Bal) Balistrieri. Tracing his roots in the crime family all the way back the Prohibition Era, Maniaci was a top suspect in the 1955 murder of local wiseguy Jack Enea and continually feuded with Frankie Bal, once he took the Family’s boss’ seat in the early 1960s. He was seen getting into a shouting match with Balistrieri’s second-in-command, Stevie DeSalvo at a Milwaukee steakhouse in the days leading up to his slaying. Balistrieri was quoted as telling his inner-circle “I’ve got to get this fucking son of a bitch before he gets me.” The murder weapon in the Maniaci hit was found in storm drain near the Milwaukee River, but charges have never been filed in the notorious gangland homicide. FBI files and court testimony points to Frankie Bal and DiSalvo farming the contract on Maniaci’s head out to their underworld benefactors in the Chicago mafia – “Outfit” soldiers Chuckie Niccoletti and Nick D’Andrea were both considered prime suspects and met similar gruesome fates in the years to come. Career-criminal Bobby Hardin testified at a future trial that he helped D’Andrea carry out the job at the behest of Chicago capo, Albert (Caesar the Fox) Tocco. The assassination of Windy City mob dignitary Sam (Momo) Giancana, a trusted Maniaci ally, in May of that year, set the groundwork for Maniaci’s downfall.

June 30, 1978 - Augie Palmisano – Headstrong Brewtown mob capo that got into several heated and public verbal altercations with don Frank Balistrieri in the years preceding his passing, Palmisano, 49, was blown to pieces by a car bomb that detonated in the underground garage of his trendy apartment building on the morning of June 30, 1978. Balistrieri, who also suspected Palmisano of being an FBI informant, was quoted telling fellow mobsters at a lunch meeting in the months that followed; “He called me a name…….. to my face, now they can’t find his skin.” Palmisano came up in the Midwestern labor union scene, getting his start as a driver for Milwaukee mob consigiliere Joseph (Joe Camel) Caminitii and captain Augie Maniaci. Backing Maniaci in his battle for power with syndicate brass, per FBI files, Palmisano was openly telling people that he wanted to rub out Balistrieri and his brother Pete in the time surrounding his murder.

March 18, 1989 - Max Addonis – Well-known Milwaukee mob associate and one-time enforcer for Chicago mafia’s representative in Wisconsin, Frank (Frankie the Horse) Bucceri and his wife, notorious rustbelt gangland gun moll, Sally Pipia, who owned Milwaukee’s famed Sally’s Steak House at The Knickerbocker on the Lake Hotel, Addonis was killed execution style on March 18, 1989 in his restaurant office at his downtown eatery, Giovanni’s. According to Chicago Police records, Addonis’ murder was contracted out to a tandem of African-American “gang bangers” from Illinois, both of whom wound up getting clipped themselves shortly thereafter. Addonis made quite a few of enemies in his days in the underworld, surviving several attempts on his life before he was finally offed. He confided to Pipia in a phone call she received the night before he died that “his days were numbered” and he knew people were trying to kill him.

[Extortion]

You might want to add Mike Farina as mentioned that louie fazio killed him in 1946 and he was a kenosha wiseguy

[Ivan]

Tamara Rand hit was ordered by Balistrieri.

[Pogo The Clown]

Tamara Rand hit was ordered by Balistrieri.

She was doing really well with her lawsuit but Balistrieri decided to settle out of court.


Pogo

[Ivan]

Tamara Rand hit was ordered by Balistrieri.

She was doing really well with her lawsuit but Balistrieri decided to settle out of court.

I knew you were going to post that but I didn't think it would be so fast.

The FBI thinks Balistrieri also ordered the Rosenthal bombing.

[Adam]

So I'll throw this in here just because Roemer mentions it in "The Enforcer". I preface this by saying Roemer is full of shit and is making things up. But in The Enforcer, Roemer writes about the murder of Chuckie Nicoletti and connects it to Milwaukee. Here's his actual quote from the book:

"Years later the mob gunned him down. Not quite his own people, I guess, but obviously with their sanction. Chuckie had gone up to Milwaukee and whacked a mob boss there. Most upset, the man's bodyguard had come into Chicago a few months later and retaliated. Got revenge for his boss. Although we never fully verified that scenario, if true it was unique that one family of the LCN would retaliate in such fashion against another. It was also unique because Milwaukee "belonged" to Chicago. The Milwaukee family of La Coas Nostra, bossed then by Frank Balistrieri, was subservient to the Chicago LCN. That is the reason why I say not quite his own people. They were and they weren't."

Now none of this story makes sense. One, there was no mafia murder in Milwaukee that happened a few months before Nicoletti was killed. Nicoletti was killed in March 1977. Even if Nicolette did kill someone in Milwaukee, and the only options are Fazio or Maniaci, those were years before Nicoletti was killed. And neither of them were bosses. So I call this Roemer bullshit, but I'll mention it only because he has it in his book.

[PolackTony]

So I'll throw this in here just because Roemer mentions it in "The Enforcer". I preface this by saying Roemer is full of shit and is making things up. But in The Enforcer, Roemer writes about the murder of Chuckie Nicoletti and connects it to Milwaukee. Here's his actual quote from the book:

"Years later the mob gunned him down. Not quite his own people, I guess, but obviously with their sanction. Chuckie had gone up to Milwaukee and whacked a mob boss there. Most upset, the man's bodyguard had come into Chicago a few months later and retaliated. Got revenge for his boss. Although we never fully verified that scenario, if true it was unique that one family of the LCN would retaliate in such fashion against another. It was also unique because Milwaukee "belonged" to Chicago. The Milwaukee family of La Coas Nostra, bossed then by Frank Balistrieri, was subservient to the Chicago LCN. That is the reason why I say not quite his own people. They were and they weren't."

Now none of this story makes sense. One, there was no mafia murder in Milwaukee that happened a few months before Nicoletti was killed. Nicoletti was killed in March 1977. Even if Nicolette did kill someone in Milwaukee, and the only options are Fazio or Maniaci, those were years before Nicoletti was killed. And neither of them were bosses. So I call this Roemer bullshit, but I'll mention it only because he has it in his book.

I’m not sure that Roemer was lying here, exactly, but rather just had partial info. There were a number of reasons that Nicoletti wound up getting knocked down, the most obvious being that he was a remaining high profile Giancana loyalist. He had been underboss prior, had lost his rackets with the downfall of his former boss, and thus seemed to be on a crash course with the new admin. Additionally, Nicoletti had some significant involvement in narcotics trafficking. Another issue was that he allegedly signed off on the hit (likely carried out by Gerry Scarpelli) on Ignazio Spachese (aka “Ned Bakes”), a senior made guy in Chicago going back to the Capone era. If I’m not mistaken (and someone please correct any errors here), Bakes was whacked up in WI. This was likely one of the last straws for Nicoletti and provided a convenient excuse for Aiuppa to finally take him out.

[eboli]

Is it true that Balistrieri got in trouble with Chicago for the Pogrob murder?

[Pogo The Clown]

The FBI thinks Balistrieri also ordered the Rosenthal bombing.

The bombing was never authorized, but I suspect I know who lit the fuse. And so did the powers that be.


Pogo

[furiofromnaples]

Tamara Rand wasnt killed by Spilotro? The Outfit kill her as a favore to Balistrieri?

[furiofromnaples]

http://www.crimemagazine.com/frank-bomp ... -informant

In the early 1970s, Bompensiero cozied up to Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, the Chicago mob's new overseer in Las Vegas. Through this friendship, Bompensiero was able to do a little loansharking business in Las Vegas. In November 1975, he helped Spilotro locate and murder San Diego real-estate broker and investor Tamara Rand. Attacked in her home, the wealthy Rand was shot once in the head, once in the back, and three times under the chin once she was on the floor. The murder was carried out by Spilotro after Allen Glick, a mob-backed Las Vegas casino owner, complained to Chicago Mafia representatives that he was being pressured by Rand to make good on a promise he made to her following a $2 million loan.