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Philip Francis Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 – August 13, 2007), nicknamed "the Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball shortstop.He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–1956), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
Rizzuto emigrated from Sicily with his family to Montreal in 1954. [8] In the 1970s, Rizzuto was an underling in the Sicilian faction, led by Luigi Greco until his death in 1972, [9] [10] of the Calabrian Cotroni crime family. As tension then grew into a power struggle between the Calabrian and Sicilian factions of the family, a mob war began ...
Leandro Rizzuto Jr. January 8, 2018 [223] January 3, 2020 [224] Nomination returned to the president [224] Ambassador to Afghanistan: William P. Ruger: September 10, 2020 [225] January 3, 2021 [225] [226] Nomination returned to the president [225] Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (with the rank of ...
Rizzuto (Italian: [ritˈtsuːto]) is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Angelo Rizzuto (1906–1967), American photographer;
During Project Colisée, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police videotaped Arcadi visiting the Consenza Social Club 616 times to see Nicolo Rizzuto between 2004 and 2006. [2] On March 9, 2005, Thierry Beubrun, a member of Woolley's Crack Down Posse, shot dead a Rizzuto family soldier, Mike Lapolla, and in turn was shot dead by other Rizzuto family soldiers. [21]
The Bonnano family, to whom the Cotroni family answered to, shifted their support from Violi to Rizzuto, whom they felt to be a more competent criminal. [ 31 ] During the war in Montreal, Violi and his brothers were murdered along with others through the mid 1970s to the early 1980s, when the war ceased.
Raynald Desjardins (born October 2, 1953) [2] is a prominent organized crime figure in Montreal, and a former associate of the Rizzuto crime family.In 2010, he was part of a violent effort to take control of the Rizzutos' operations. [3]
Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera (December 20, 1936 – May 5, 1981) was an American caporegime in the Bonanno crime family who was murdered with Alphonse Indelicato and Philip Giaccone for planning to overthrow Bonanno boss Philip Rastelli. [1]