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After the death of boss Frank Balistrieri, in 1993, members of the Chicago Outfit moved into the area gaining control over many illegal rackets in the Milwaukee area. [3] In 2024, boss Peter Picciurro and consigliere John Balistrieri, both died and it is unknown the current status of the family.
August “Augie” Palmisano was killed by a car bomb in downtown Milwaukee in 1978. Forty-five years later, his murder remains unsolved.
But it wasn't long before other Mafia bosses got wind of Balistrieri's deal and demanded they get a piece too, Magensen said. "He was actually threatened," Magnesen said.
Ever since she was a child, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative reporter Mary Spicuzza has heard rumors about her cousin August Palmisano, who was killed in a car bombing in 1978.
Frank Peter Balistrieri (May 27, 1918 – February 7, 1993) was the crime boss of the Milwaukee crime family from 1961 to 1993. He was a central figure in the skimming of Las Vegas casinos during the 1970s and 1980s, and served several prison sentences.
Felix Anthony "Milwaukee Phil" Alderisio (April 26, 1912 – September 25, 1971) was an American enforcer, bagman, hitman and burglar for the Chicago Outfit. He was underboss to Sam Giancana during the 1960s and boss from 1967 to his imprisonment in 1969.
Joe Pistone, or "Donnie Brasco," is famous for infiltrating the Mafia in New York in the '70s. Few are aware that he also worked undercover in Milwaukee. Joe Pistone, or "Donnie Brasco," is famous ...
Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family under the tutelage of Anthony Mirra and later Dominick Napolitano, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New ...