Word: rizzitello
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...sanctioned by three Los Angeles Mafia chieftains, Don Dominick Brooklier, Under Boss Sam Sciortino and former Boss Louis Tom Dragna. The killers, says the informant, were Mob Muscleman Thomas Ricciardi and Jack Locicero, the present consigliere of the West Coast crime syndicate. Another of their associates, Mafia Enforcer Mike Rizzitello, has not been connected with Bomp's murder, but will be charged with extortion in the same indictment. All six will be tried under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law, which provides penalties of up to 20 years in jail for anyone convicted of engaging...
...collect the money, the dons ordered Roselli killed; he was asphyxiated in 1976 (Roselli gained notoriety in 1975 when he told a Senate committee that he and another mobster had been recruited by the CIA in the 1960s to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro). Next, the bosses turned to Rizzitello for help. Just as he began pressuring the casino owner, the FBI, tipped by Fratianno, intervened and scared Rizzitello off. Further, Fratianno has told the FBI that he and his West Coast associates extorted payoffs of up to $50,000 from another Las Vegas casino owner whenever they needed walking...
...twelve-day run was virtually a sellout, but not all eyes were on Frankie and Dean. A few were on the audience, which included top Mafiosi from New York and other parts of the country. Among them were Jimmy ("the Weasel") Fratianno of San Francisco, Mike Rizzitello of Los Angeles, Tony Spilotro of Las Vegas, Russell Bufalino of Scran ton, Pa., and several associates of Philadelphia Boss Angelo Bruno...
...most powerful man in Las Vegas, next to Moe Dalitz [a legendary mobster on the Strip]. Spilotro takes a cut of all illegal activities of any consequence." He spends much of his time traveling by private jet on Mob business in California, where he has helped Fratianno and Rizzitello guide new Mob investments in narcotics trafficking, bookmaking, loan-sharking and extortion from legitimate businessmen as well as from illegal Mexican immigrants who work in garment-manufacturing firms owned by the mobsters. The Eastern and Midwestern hoodlums have run into stiff competition from entrenched indigenous gangs in at least one field?...
...Rizzitello helped the Mafia take over 80% of the $100 million-a-year Los Angeles pornography business. His approach is not sophisticated. In January, for example, he extracted $20,000 from a porno film company simply by proclaiming: "Los Angeles is our town. You can't operate here unless we're in." He has ranged north to San Francisco, working with Teamsters on shakedowns of employers. But Rizzitello may soon be taken off the streets for up to three years. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 23 for a penny-ante crime?fraudulently collecting $21,780 on a false...