NorthBuffalo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:04 pm
Fratto says that Vito Caliendo was very close with Butch Petrocelli and came up under him. There was a murder discussed in Family Secrets that involved Robert Oliveri was related to Vito Caliendo who owned porno stores that competed with Oliveri. Petrocelli sent guys to spook him and they ended up killing him - there was a major issue with 'Robery Salerno' who owned Oliveri.
They are not related to another Caliendo family in Melrose Park who appeared to have run that local police department (Charlie and Tony Caliendo).
Right, Oliveri was operating a porn shop in Elk Grove Village that was in competition with one of Caliendo’s shops.
The other Caliendos that you’re talking about may be more distantly related to these Caliendos, as Vito Caliendo’s father Francesco Caliendo was from San Vitaliano and they were from the neighboring town of Scisciano (also the hometown of the Ebolis and Ariolas; Francesco arrived in the US in a shop with a bunch of people from Scisciano including some Ariolas. There are some older posts here on the forum discussing Antonio Caliendo from Scisciano, who owned a farm in Melrose Park in the 1920s that was used as a bomb making workshop and meeting place for a network of Napoletan’bootleggers that included Guido DiChiaro; I’ve long suspected that this was a Camorra group in Melrose Park that got absorbed into the outfit. As Patrick noted above, there are a lot of Caliendos in Chicago but all of the ones that I’ve seen go back to Scisciano/San Vitaliano.
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Bobby Salerno was there when Oliver was killed. Scalise, Scarpelli, Mike Sarno, and Sal Cataudella were also there. It was never established who killed Oliver, but Scalise knew of a remote field where they could bury the body. According to Scarpelli, Petrocelli had ordered the store to be trashed but that a civilian had killed Oliver, the latter being a fib he told to Rocky Infelise to cover for the group. Butch and Rocky were Ferriola's top two guys at the time and of course Butch was later killed, while Rocky went on to be made and eventually inherit the crew.
Snakes wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:21 pm
Bobby Salerno was there when Oliver was killed. Scalise, Scarpelli, Mike Sarno, and Sal Cataudella were also there. It was never established who killed Oliver, but Scalise knew of a remote field where they could bury the body. According to Scarpelli, Petrocelli had ordered the store to be trashed but that a civilian had killed Oliver, the latter being a fib he told to Rocky Infelise to cover for the group. Butch and Rocky were Ferriola's top two guys at the time and of course Butch was later killed, while Rocky went on to be made and eventually inherit the crew.
Yes, IIRC correctly Scarpelli talked about this in his 302? He discussed a number of murders there though there were a lot of redactions. It was reported in the press however in 1989 (Oliver was killed in 1979, but his body wasn’t discovered until 1988, perhaps based on Scarpelli’s info). I don’t remember it being brought up during Family Secrets.
"Hey, hey, hey — this is America, baby! Survival of the fittest.”
Oliver was raised in family secrets during Nick Calabrese testimony about the 'wild bunch' crew. So presumably, Caliendo is under Petrucelli and Aleman who were all from Taylor Street. Petrucelli gets killed, Aleman gets locked up and then Caliendo is just folded under Infelise who was kind of taking over from Ferriola, correct? I imagine his relative working in the same enterprises would have had a lot of information through Vito Caliendo.
