Word: balistrieri
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...Government's case, moreover, includes an allegation that an unnamed trustee of the Teamsters' Central States Pension fund helped a Mafia front man, Allen Click, then only 32, get $62.75 million in loans from the fund in 1974. The trustee advised Glick to see Frank Balistrieri, the Mafia's top man in Milwaukee. The indictment claims that Balistrieri and Joe Aiuppa, the Chicago boss, wielded their influence with other unnamed directors of the Teamsters fund to get the mon ey. Glick used the loans to buy four casinos, including the Star dust and the Fremont...
...indictments reach 1 higher and more broadly into the ; Mafia hierarchy in the Midwest. The accused include the Milwaukee chief Balistrieri, 64, and his two sons, Joseph, 43, and John, 34. The defendants in Chicago, who supervise their Milwaukee subordinates, include Aiuppa, 75, and Jackie Cerone, 69, the underboss. The main Kansas City defendants are Carl DeLuna, 56, the underboss there, and Carl Civella, 73, whose late brother Nick had headed the city's Mafia operations. In Las Vegas, Defendant Tony Spilotro, 45, is described by investigators as a hitman and watchdog for the Chicago crime group...
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