Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (born Filippo Sacco; July 4, 1905 – August 7, 1976), sometimes spelled Rosselli, was a mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization exert influence over Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel ...
The method was later used in Johnny Roselli's death when he was found in a 55-gallon oil drum off the coast of Florida in 1976. [4] It is generally believed Roselli was murdered in revenge for his skimming profits from Las Vegas casinos, but given Roselli's involvement with CIA plots against Fidel Castro in Cuba, others have suggested that Roselli's death was not at the hands of fellow ...
Although Trafficante would have needed permission from Outfit bosses Accardo and Joseph Aiuppa, Giancana's murder coincided with the discovery of the decomposing remains of Johnny Roselli in an oil drum floating off Miami; he had been shot and chopped up before being dumped in the sea. Some suspected that Roselli was killed on Trafficante's orders.
He and Green both cited the death of John “Handsome Johnny” Roselli, a mid-1950s Las Vegas mobster who disappeared in 1976 a few days before his body was found in a 55-gallon (208-liter) steel ...
John Carneglia, "Johnny Carnegs" (born 1945) Sylvestro Carolla , "Silver Dollar Sam" (1896–1972) Charles Carrollo , "Charlie the Wop" (born Vincenzo Carrollo , 1902–1979)
Jack McCullough, who changed his name from John Tessier, as he was known around the time of Maria's 1957 kidnapping and murder, was released from an Illinois prison in 2016, ending a nearly five ...
December 22 – Paul Ricca, Louis Campagna, John Roselli and four other defendants are convicted of extortion with each fined $10,000 and received prison sentences ranging from seven-to-10 years. They "walk" after three years, because of some dubious, behind-the-scenes mischief between The Outfit and the U.S. Justice Department , during the ...
Nov. 28—CHEYENNE — The trial of a local teenager accused of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of another teen earlier this year began Tuesday in Laramie County District ...