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Calabrese's arrest record dates from 1954, when he served two years in prison for a violation of the Dyer Act (auto theft). [6] He was The Outfit's Chinatown, or 26th Street, crew boss who provided loans to hundreds of customers at exorbitant interest rates that varied from one percent to 10 percent per week. [7]
Its operations were run out of the Old Neighborhood Italian American Club, originally on west 26th Street, in Chicago. Its founder, Angelo J. "The Hook" LaPietra, and Schweihs' partner skimmed $2 million from Las Vegas casinos in the 1980s and built a new massive club structure on West 31st Street, in Chicago. In 1991, Schweihs collected ...
Frank "Toots" Caruso – Capo of the 26th Street/Chinatown Crew. [74] Rudolph "Rudy" Fratto – Capo of the Elmwood Park Crew; Peter DiFronzo was the captain before his death in December 2020. [77] Rudy Fratto became Caporegime by 2021. Fratto was born in 1943. He was first identified as a member of the Chicago Outfit in 1997.
Roti was born in an apartment in Chinatown. [1] Fred's father, Bruno Roti, Sr., known as "Bruno the Bomber", was a henchman of Al Capone, was arrested twice in murder investigations, [2] and was the first capo of what became the 26th Street/Chinatown "crew" of the Chicago Outfit.
He served two years in federal prison for violating firearms laws. Torello served as capo of the South Side/26th Street crew. In the late 1960s, Torello sent Robert "Bobby the Beak" Siegel to Las Vegas to help collect $87,000 from an associate of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, the Outfit agent at the Stardust Hotel & Casino. This story was related by ...
Angelo J. "The Hook" LaPietra, head of the Outfit's Chinatown-Southside Crew aka The 26th Street Crew, skimmed $2 million from Las Vegas casinos in the 1980s. He used the money to move his headquarters from west 26th street to the brand new structure pictured here, The Old Neighborhood Italian-American Club, in 1981.
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Nicholas W. Calabrese (November 30, 1942 – March 13, 2023) was an American mob hitman, best known for being a made man who testified against the Chicago Outfit.His testimony and cooperation with federal prosecutors helped result in the 2007 murder convictions of mobsters Joseph Lombardo, James Marcello, and his own brother, Frank Calabrese Sr.