Five Detroit-area men plead guilty to racketeering
The Associated Press
Mar 17, 2007 9:45 AM (7 hrs ago)
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DETROIT - Five defendants have pleaded guilty to racketeering charges resulting from an investigation into illegal sports gambling that federal authorities said netted $5.9 million between 1998 and 2006.

The case features relatives of notorious Detroit-area mobsters.

Jack V. Giacalone, 56, of West Bloomfield, the nephew of Anthony Giacalone and the son of convicted Mafia figure Vito Giacalone, has pleaded not guilty and plans to go to trial on racketeering and extortion charges, officials said Friday.

But federal prosecutors said they are making plea deals with most or all of the other 14 defendants in the case.

On Wednesday, Peter Dominic Tocco, 59, of Troy, the nephew of former Detroit crime boss Jack Tocco, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy along with co-defendants Peter Joseph Messina, 51, of Roseville and Thomas James Mackey, 50, of Clinton Township.

On Friday, John William Manettas, 52, of Harrison Township and Wayne Joseph Kassab, 50, of Sterling Heights pleaded guilty to similar charges. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn has not set sentencing dates.

Under plea agreements, the men face likely prison sentences ranging from 21 to 46 months. They also agreed to collectively forfeit up to $3 million derived from illegal gambling proceeds.

"The heyday of racketeering, extortion, money laundering, illegal sport bookmaking and gambling by organized criminal groups may very well have passed us by, as demonstrated by today's guilty pleas," U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy said Friday.

According to the indictment, the conspiracy involved laundering of the illegal gambling proceeds through legitimate businesses the defendants operated.

The Detroit family was founded in 1921 by Gaspare Milazzo. The family was under his control until 1930, when he was murdered by a faction led by Gaetano Gianolla. Gianolla led the family until 1944, when Joe Vitale took over the family. Vitale was the boss until 1964, when Joseph Zerilli took over upon Vitale's death. Zerilli was the head of a committee that led the Detroit family. When Zerilli died, he was succeeded by the number two man on the committee, Jack Tocco. Tocco became the official boss in 1977. The Detroit family was stung by indictments in March of 1996 against 17 members and associates. The cases are set to go to trial in early 1998. Tocco was among those indicted in the case. However, all of the men indicted are free on bail and awaiting bail.
Tocco is 69 years old. He is a resident of Grosse Point Park who graduated from the University of Detroit in 1949. He is retired, although he has been involved in many businesses. He was a part-owner of the Hazel Park race track. He has owned restaurants, investment companies, real estate firms, the Warren Tennis Club and was partners with his brother, Anthony, in Cadillac Overall Supply. He also owned Melrose Linen of Detroit and Robertson's Laundry in Saginaw with Anthony Joseph Corrado. In the past, Tocco has picketed the federal courthouse in Detroit, charging the government with slander and harassment of the Italian-Americans.

Another man indicted in the massive case was the underboss of the family, Anthony Joseph Zerilli, 68, of Sterling Heights, MI. Zerilli also graduated from the University of Detroit. He owns an Italian restaurant in Roseville and an Italian food products company in Warren.
Four alleged capos of the family were also indicted. One was Anthony Joseph Corrado. As I earlier stated, he was a owner of Melrose Linen with Jack Tocco. Corrado, 60, of Clinton Township, was identified in 1974 by the Nevada gaming commission as one of a few Detroiters to receive "lavish" treatment at the Las Vegas casinos. Anthony Joseph Tocco, 65, of Clinton Township, was another reputed capo. He was among 30 Detroit men placed on the record of the Senate Labor-Management Rackets Committee by Robert F. Kennedy who said Tocco either was a delegate to a crime convention in Apalachin, N.Y., or among "their contacts and associates." Vito William Giacalone, 73, is a reputed capo along with his brother Anthony, 77. Both live in Clinton Township. Each brother has served prison time for tax fraud. Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone is one of the men suspected to be responsible for the death of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa told family and friends that he was going to visit Tony Jack when he disappeared.
These men were also indicted in the case as members or associates of the Detroit Mafia:
Paul Corrado (son of Anthony), Nove Tocco, Peter Corrado, John Sciarrota, John Jarjosa, Norman Bagdasarian, Paul Joseph Tocco, Thomas Lenhard, and Frank Whitcher
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UPDATE-All of the men indicted in Detroit were brought to trial and convicted in March. The men are set to be sentenced later this year for their crimes. It is not known how these prosecutions will affect the Metro Detroit Mafia.

DETROIT

Son of Mafia boss found not guilty of racketeering
April 29, 2007

BY DAVID ASHENFELTER

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A West Bloomfield man was acquitted Friday in Detroit federal court of racketeering and extortion charges stemming from accusations that he tried to collect a gambling debt of more than $350,000 from a Florida man.

A 12-member jury deliberated barely an hour following a two-day trial before acquitting Jack V. Giacalone, 56, the son of admitted Detroit Mafia capo Vito (Billy Jack) Giacalone and nephew of the late Mafia capo Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone.

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Jack V. Giacalone was indicted last year with 14 other people, many of them relatives of reputed mob figures, in an illegal multimillion-dollar sports betting and debt collection operation. Most of the other defendants pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.

Giacalone was accused of trying to collect a gambling debt from Don Julius Deseranno, who told a grand jury that he felt intimidated when Giacalone tried to collect on behalf of two associates. But he told jurors at Giacalone's trial that he didn't feel threatened. The debt resulted from two rigged card games, authorities said.

Giacalone's lawyer, Neil Fink of Birmingham, said he was pleased with the decision. Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Corbett said that "the jury has spoken" and that the government would focus on the other cases.

Contact DAVID ASHENFELTER at 313-223-4490 or dashenfelter@freepress.com.

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Jack V. Giacalone acquitted in federal racketeering case

Vincent Bronzino, the remaining defendant in federal probe, still faces trial on gambling charges.

Paul Egan / The Detroit News


One trial remains in an alleged racketeering and illegal bookmaking case involving several relatives of Detroit area Mafia figures after one of the defendants, Jack V. Giacalone, was acquitted by a federal jury, lawyers said Monday.

Giacalone, 56, of West Bloomfield, the son of admitted Detroit Mafia figure Vito Giacalone and nephew of the late mobster Anthony Giacalone, was acquitted Friday on racketeering and extortion charges.

A trial date for the remaining defendant, Vincent Bronzino, has not been set, Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Corbett said Monday. All 12 of the other defendants have pleaded guilty to various charges, he said.

The case, which also features defendants with the family names Tocco and Corrado, involves an alleged illegal sport betting and gambling operation that federal authorities said netted $5.9 million between 1998 and 2006.

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn is handling the cases.

Carl Marlinga, Bronzino's attorney, said his client wants a trial in front of Cohn without a jury. The case against Bronzino involves a money-laundering allegation arising from Bronzino's payment of a gambling debt using poker chips, he said.

Giacalone is "very happy with the verdict," his lawyer Neil Fink said Monday. Fink said he believed Giacalone's acquittal turned on the credibility of one of the government's witnesses.

Defendants who have pleaded guilty in the case could face up to 46 months in prison.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Convicted bookie gets three years in prison

Paul Egan / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- A key figure in a racketeering conspiracy involving illegal sports betting and money laundering was sentenced to just over three years in prison in federal court today.

Peter Dominic Tocco, 60, of Troy, the nephew of former Detroit crime boss Jack Tocco, is also subject to a $3 million forfeiture order that applies to him and several other defendants convicted in the racketeering case.

Tocco and others ran an illegal sports betting operation that authorities say netted $5.9 million between 1998 and 2006, with proceeds laundered through legitimate businesses such as a car dealership.

U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn sentenced Tocco, who pleaded guilty in March, to 37 months in prison.

"I'm ready to get on with the rest of my life, your honor, and put this behind me," Tocco told the judge.

Authorities said Tocco was a leader of the operation. Tocco's lawyer, Domnick Sorise, told Cohn that Tocco has battled alcohol addiction much of his life.

Also Thursday, Cohn sentenced another defendant in the racketeering case, Thomas James Mackey, 50, of Clinton Township, to 30 months in prison. Mackey pleaded guilty in March to the same charge as Tocco and has also battled alcoholism, his lawyer N.C. Deday Larene said.

"He understands this is his last chance to turn his life around and get a handle on his drinking," Larene said to Cohn about Mackey.

Thirteen men pleaded guilty in the case and one was convicted at trial.

One man, Jack V. Giacalone, 56, the nephew of the late Mafia figure Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, was acquitted following a trial.

anybody knows who those other killed junketorganizers/ loansharks were???????


in the book on Spilotro he was seen as the organizer, but it was probably the Detroit borgata



Chicago 1970
Boss Aiuppa, Underboss Cerone, Consiglieri Accardo, West side capo Fifi Buccieri, North side capo Ross Prio, 26th Street- Chinatown capo Caruso, Elmwood Park capo, Chicago Heights (far southern suburbs) capo Francesco Liparota "Frank LaPorte"


Chicago's 26th Street- Chinatown crew boss Frank Caruso
Frank caruso's sons are Bruno and Frank Caruso jr and they are cousins of Leo Caruso and nephews of First Ward Alderman Fred Roti. Frank Caruso was the boss from the 50ties to the 70ties of the 26th street- Chinatown crew after which James "The Bomber" Catuara became the boss.


Chicago killer Spilotro
In 1970 Spilotro was arrested on gamblingcharges, he is probably a protege of Alderisio.


Chicago killer Spilotro
28 September 1970 the well know burglar Mario Sprovieri was shot to death possibly by Spilotro.


Chicago's frontowner Glick of Las Vegas casino Stardust
At the end of 1970 Lefty Rosenthal starts to work in the Stardust as director amusement and Glick as frontowner for Chicago.


Chicago's Las Vegas operations overseer Caifano replaced by Spilotro
In 1971 the Outfit was led by Aiuppa, Accardo and Alex they replace that year their man Marshall Caifano in Las Vegas by Tony Spilotro.


Chicago's Las Vegas operations overseer Spilotro
Spilotro buys in Las Vegas a giftshop in the casino Circus Circus for 70000 dollars. Circus Circus owner is Jay Sarno who build it with a Teamster loan. Jay Sarno had worked before in Caesar’s palace.


Chicago's Las Vegas operations overseer Spilotro
In a short time then 5 loansharks were killed. HHHHHHHmmmm???????? i wouldn't know names and ask myself??????????????


Flamingo promoter st Louisian Primo Frank "Larry" Caudera killed
page 168 and 169 "This extension of the legal Las Vegas gambling theory has led to the murder or violent death of 4 or 5 junket promoters, one of which was the Flamingo promoter, a st Louisian, named Primo Frank "Larry" Caudera (he organized junkets from St louis to Las vegas). Caudera was blindfolded, shot 6 times, and his body was found in the trunk of his cadillac on a south st Louis street on 2 october 1971 he had disappeared since 30 september 1971 when he left his home. He had left his home to meet his extortionists who had demanded half of his profits becaue according to them his Flamingo junkets were cutting in on the Casino Dunes junkets operations. Following further interviews and investiagtion into the death of Caudera, officers of the St Louis Police Homicide section, on 13 october 1971 arrested Anthony Giardano, John Vitale and James Giammanco (nephew of Anthony Giardano), charging them with the murder of Caudera.
From the hearings on Organized crime in sports (racing) 1973



I MEAN ?????? IT SMELLS THE SAME STORY AND THE SUSPECTS IN AT LEAST OF ONE OF THESE CASES??????????? SEEMS NOT TO BE SPILOTRO


BUT WHO ARE THE OTHERS????????/

Timeline of Detroit mob murders
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A little while back someone posted this great list about Detroit mob murders from the 1940s to now, and maybe mcscott or anyone else can give some feedback on it. Here it is:




I've spent the last few years researching the Detroit mob very closely with a particular emphasis on probable and possible mob murders. Below is a list of mob murders, deaths, accidents, and suicides post 1940 connected to Detroit. The ones with asterisks are ones I'm not particularly confident in, but the others I stand by. I wondered if anyone who pays attention to Detroit disagreed with me on any, or wanted to comment on, or if anyone had any that they'd like to add to my list. I've periodically posted my list before on the previous forum and I'm always looking for good discussion. So here's my list with some very brief descriptions:


1944: Eddie Sarkesian. Hoodlum who had been robbing mob bookies.

1945: Lydia Thompson. Found with note she had written that if anything ever happened to her the police should question Santo Perrone.

1946: Sam Ricca. Flint area man and possible racketeer.

1947: Fred Baraky. Detroit bookie.

1947: Gust Andromolous. Detroit numbers operator.

1948: Sam Scroy and Pete Lucido. Bookies who disappeared.

1949: Eddie Martino. Detroit bookie.

1950: Jack George. Hoodlum and robber.

1955: A. C. Jones. Numbers operator and safe cracker.**

1956: Salvatore Vitale. Narcotics trafficker who disappeared.

1957: Joseph Cicalo. Flint area racketeer.

1957: Leo Difatta. Mob muscleman who was robbing numbers operators.

1957: Gilde Caprio. Gary IN mobster found strangled in Michigan.**

1957: Earl Atwood. Gambler found executed.**

1958: Antonio Dipaquali. Italian immigrant killed by professional car bomb.**

1959: Robert Foster. Detroit hoodlum stabbed to death.**

1959: Joseph C. Moceri. Detroit area mobster.

1959: Christ Scroy. Brother of Sam Scroy. Disappeared and later found mutilated.

1960: Thomas Karamanos. Greektown gambler and informant.

1962: Roy Calabresse. Gambler and possible informant.

1962: Karl Weiner. Gambler. Possible suicide.**

1963: Chafic Sabino. Mob associate who introduced undercover police operator to gambling individuals which led to breakup of a gambling operation. Died in a car crash a few weeks later.**

1963: Sol Brodsky. Con man.

1964: Harry Ellis. Detroit numbers operator.

1965: Onofrio Minaudo. Deported Detroit gangster killed in Sicily.**

1965: Pete Lombardo. Detroit mobster and Perrone associate.

1968: Sam Dimaggio. Loan shark victim.

1968: Caesar Adler. Giacalone gambling operator.

1968: Robert Dunaway. Giacalone enforcer.

1968: Judith Ruggirello. Wife of Antonino Ruggirello who disappeared.

1968: Hubert Voshen** Died in suspiscious car accident. Possibly owed a large amount of money by the Giacalone brothers.

1968: Joseph Moceri. Prohibition era gangster who died after being beaten by robber. The assailant later confessed but there were inconsistancies.**

1968: The entire Robinson family was murdered in northern Michigan. A Detroit mobster in prison claimed that Mr. Robinson owed the Detroit mob money and that they were responsible for the murder of the entire family.**

1970: Nick Arvan. Lawyer and mob associate.

1970: Joseph Calabro. Connected to Arvan murder.

1970-71: George Wahl. Somehow connected to Arvan and Calabro murders.

1971: Pete Klavinger. Heroin dealer and in debt to loan sharks.**

1971: Joe Bozied. Truck dealer killed by car bomb on same day as Sol Shindel.

1971: Sol Shindel. Detroit mob gambling specialist.

1972: Agnes Brush. Bookkeeper for company that made secret loan to a developing firm with mob ties. She had been making complaints about the loan and was found stabbed to death.

1972: Pete Vasallo. Enforcer for Giacalones.

1972: John Palmer. Enforcer for Giacalones. He disappeared from prison. I have no record of him ever being found but its possible he was apprehended later without me knowing about it. When he disappeared most law enforcement officials believed he would never be found.

1972: George Milkovich. Numbers operator and connected to Nick Arvan, Joseph Calabro, and George Wahl.

1972: Gregory "Pete" Katranis. Mob enforcer.

1974: Gerald Franklin. Lawyer for Pete Lazaros

1974: Harvey Leach. Furniture company owner killed after heading to meeting with a Giacalone associate. His company taken over shortly after by a different Giacalone associate.

1974: Ronnie Cohen. Probable suicide but scheduled to testify in grand jury investigation of Harvey Leach case.**

1974: David DeLarosa. Killed by Giacalone associate.

1975: Jimmy Hoffa.

1976: Tommy Labarrie. Money collector for Giacalones.

1976: Nick Ditta, Frank Randazzo, Joe Siragusa. Mob members killed by Ernest Kanakis in hit gone terribly wrong.

1977: Otto Wendel. Teamster treasurer.

1980: John Coclu. Old associate of Maxie Stern. Found beheaded.

1980: Anthony Starr**

1981: Carlo Licata.**

1983: E. David Auer. Detroit area businessman.**

1984: Ralph Proctor. Former Teamster killed after heading to meeting with Anthony Lapiana.

1985: Eugene Mancen, Frederick Sanderson, Laverio Termine. Triple murder allegedly ordered by a Giacalone associate.

1985: Colleen Smith. Bernard Marchesani wanted for questioning in the murder.

1985: Harry Maciarz. Numbers operator and associate of Corrado family.

1985: Pete Cavataio. Identified mob member.

1985: James Stabile, Camille Stabile, I.T. Hill. Triple murder that may have been spur of the moment by man who felt he was owed money by Stabile. The man was later convicted, but Stabile was an associate of Pete Cavataio.**

1989: Frank Stramaglia. Four Bears executive.

1989: Mark Giancotti. Four Bears executive.

1998: Peter McNeil. Informer and witness against Giacalone backed cocaine operation in England that was taken down in the 1980s. Killed in Great Britain.**

2001: John Jarjosa Jr. Son of recently imprisoned man who was an associate of Detroit mob.

2002: Vincent F. Meli. Found in Pacific ocean. Probably an accident.**

Then there are nameless possible murders. The ten unknown possible victims of Central Sanitation. Vito Giacalone told someone that they had bumped off a couple of loan sharks who hadn't listened in the 1960s. In Last Mafioso Fratianno relates a story of Frank Bompensiero killing an unnamed man for Detroit mobsters probably in the 1960s. The way its described it sounds like the Salvatore Vitale murder, but the timeframe doesn't seem to fit. Anthony Giacalone was recorded talking about a murder he participated in in the 1940s that involved transporting a strangled body to Wyandotte, but we don't know who he was talking about. In 1974 top numbers operator and good friend of the Giacalones Louis "Rip" Koury was kidnapped by some black numbers operators. Koury was released, and the Detroit Free Press reported that several of the kidnappers wound up murdered, but I haven't found any information other than that one reference. According to FBI documents a California man was called to Detroit for a meeting in 1962 with Black Bill Tocco and the FBI was unable to locate him afterward. There are a few others that are even more questionable than the ones I've marked as the ones I'm not sure of. But I'll hold off on those. Anyway, I'd like to get some people's opinions. Thanks!

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Reputed member of Detroit Mafia dies at 87 Grosse Pointe Woods

January 10, 2008

By DAVID ASHENFELTER

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER - Detroit Free Press

Vincent Angelo Meli, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia, was remembered by his son Wednesday as a "great family man" and loving father.

Vincent Meli died of bone cancer Monday at St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren. He was 87.

We are a very close-knit family because of my father," Frank Meli said.
He said his father never talked about business activities, but he heard the stories.
"At first it made us mad, but we eventually got to the point that we didn't think about it," he said.

Vincent Meli was born in Sicily in 1921, and came to the United States with his parents when he was 10.

He was a captain in Army intelligence during World War II. After the war, he married Grace Mercurio, had six children and lived in Grosse Pointe Woods.
The FBI described Vincent Meli's father, also named Frank, and uncle Angelo Meli as Detroit-area Mafia leaders.

Vincent Meli and his father owned and operated the now-defunct Meltone Music and White Music jukebox companies in Detroit. The old U.S. Treasury Bureau of Narcotics said they were key figures in Detroit's mob-controlled jukebox business.
In 1984, Vincent Meli began serving a 3-year sentence for extortion after being convicted with other men of using his underworld reputation to frighten truck drivers into paying pension deductions that should have been paid by their employer.

In addition to his son, survivors include sons Carl, Vincent and Paul; two daughters, Carmen Thomas and Phyllis LaPiana; 15 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be at 9:30 a.m. today at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 467 Fairford Road, Grosse Pointe Woods, with mass at 10 a.m. Entombment will follow in Resurrection Cemetery in Clinton Township.

Is Detroit expert Daniel "Dan the Man" Waugh sometimes attending here????


or does somebody know him and know how to reach him because i would like to speak with him

thanks in advance for anybody's help

i think this is Daniel Waugh who is mentioned



By Rick "Mad Dog" Mattix

Far too many organized crime books are narrowly focused on New York and Chicago, as if nothing of any consequence ever happened in the underworlds of other cities. St Louis has a gangster past just as colorful and violent and indeed supplied many of the killers who made the Twenties roar in other urban battlegrounds around the nation. Many books mention Egan's Rats as the premier St. Louis gang but provide little and usually erroneous detail. Dan Waugh, a native St. Louisan, a fantastic researcher, and a wonderful writer, has corrected this with an incredibly in-depth and entertaining history of the gang. Stretching from its 1890s roots as saloon toughs in the employ of politician "Snake" Kinney right on through the bloody Prohibition gang wars and the million-dollar mail robberies that brought the gang down, and the exodus of ex-Rats to the gang war scenes of New York, Detroit, and Chicago, it's an action-packed history that's long overdue. This is also Waugh's debut as a published author but from I've seen he's already a powerhouse contender when it comes to crime history.

Puparo wants to know the first mafia murder in Detroit.

Welcome Tino


25 January 1912 was Sam Biondo killed for which the brothers Gianolla were arrested

Salvatore D'Anna had done the BAE with his brother Pasquale and their sister had married Antonino Giannola. Salvatore D'Anna got an alibi from Tony Cassisi

when Salvatore DÁnna was wounded the killed were Tony Cassisi and his nephew Carlo Cassisi


I don't know the Gianolla who was shot by Vito Renda in November 1911, you know who it is???

i know Tony Giannola was killed 3 janauary 1919 and Vito Renda was shot 26 february 1919 when ambushed by Sam Giannola in jail.




(What i know about these years i know thanks to the earlier by me mentioned Dan Waugh )





You know if these D'Anna brothers were family of the Denver (Colorado) Danna (D'Anna) brothers?????????/:

Denver
in 1925 was john Danna killed. In 1926 his brother Frank Danna was killed. 14 may 1926 were Tony and Pete Danna killed and in 1930 was Sam danna killed


somebody else knows more on the Danna (D'Anna) family??




respects and looking forward for some discussion with you

Anthony Zerilli is a free man again..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Joseph_Zerilli

Just got a copy of Motor City Mafia great pictures!! :)

I just heard of a new photo-history book coming out from same publisher (Arcadia) enetitled Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang by Paul Kavieff. This might be a nice companion to Motor City Mafia. Arcadia also publishes John Binder's The Chicago Outfit.

The Chicago Outfit is also great!
Do you know Historic Photos of Chicago Crime?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159652387..._pr_product_top

Chicago has control of all of the Western families, including Detroit. The Chicago Commission makes and enforces the rules for those families and settles inter-family "beefs." If there was a beef or problem that included New York families with Chicago on Chicago-controlled families, that dispute would be settled by members of both Commissions having a sit-down and working out the dispute.

Statement of Angelo Lonardo

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Mayor Kilpatrick to return $4,500 in legal fund donations
David Josar / The Detroit News
The leaders of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's Detroit Justice Fund met Wednesday and agreed to return a pair of donations totaling $4,500.

One $3,000 donation was from S.A. Restaurants Inc., a strip club on West Eight Mile called the Penthouse Club Detroit, which had been owned by an convicted member of the Detroit mob.

The second, $1,500, was from Advanced Air Services of Livonia.


"The board met and decided to return the money," said ChrisGarrett, a Washington spokesman for the mayor's legal team.

Garrett said the owner of Advanced Air Services mistakenly believed the money was to go to children's programming.

A Tuesday disclosure to the IRS showed Kilpatrick's legal defense fund has raised $185,600 since April and spent most of the money on lawyers for his ongoing perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and misconduct in office case.

I'm looking for info on Caesar and Joe Badalamenti are they related to Don Tano Badalamenti ?

http://realdealmafia.com/detroitlist.html

His sons i guess

His elder brother Emanuele Badalamenti migrated to the United States and operated a supermarket and gas station in Monroe, Michigan

Vito Giacalone, Noted Detroit Mobster, Dies at Age 88
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

WJBK) - A notorious Detroit mobster has died.

Vito 'Billy Jack' Giacalone died over the weekend, according to a report in the Detroit News. He was known as a gambling czar and reportedly believed to be one of the central figures in the disappearance of former Teamster's boss Jimmy Hoffa. Giacalone's brother, Anthony, was set to meet with Hoffa the day he disappeared in 1975.

Vito Giacalone's rap sheet dates back to the 1940s. He had prison stints for a long list of crimes, including weapon possession, gambling and racketeering.

Vito 'Billy Jack' Giacalone was 88 years old when died on Sunday.

The News reports the Giacalone family held a funeral Mass on Tuesday at St. Thecla Catholic Church in Clinton Township.