1. Anthony Provenzano, known as Tony Pro, was an American mobster who was a powerful caporegime in the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction.
15 Facts About Anthony Provenzano
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Anthony Provenzano was born on May 7,1917, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the fourth of six children to Sicilian immigrants Rosario and Josephine Anthony Provenzano.
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Anthony Provenzano became employed by Teamsters Local 560 in Union City, New Jersey, as a business agent between 1948 and 1958, as the president between 1958 and May 1966, and as secretary treasurer between November 24,1975, and June 1978.
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Anthony Provenzano was a resident of Clifton, New Jersey and Hallandale, Florida.
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In 1959, Provenzano cited the Fifth Amendment 44 times before a Senate racketeering committee, for which Robert F Kennedy was counsel.
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In June 1961, Teamsters Local 560 secretary-treasurer Anthony Provenzano Castellito traveled to Upstate New York to meet with Salvatore Briguglio, a mob-associated loan shark.
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On November 15,1960, Anthony Provenzano was indicted in the District of New Jersey for extortion for the demand and receipt of "labor peace" payoffs from the Dorn Transportation Company between 1952 and 1959.
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On July 12,1963, Anthony Provenzano was convicted of extortion and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment; he served four-and-a-half years, incarcerated between May 1966 and 1970.
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Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, who denied having scheduled a meeting with Hoffa, were found not to have been near the restaurant that afternoon.
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On June 14,1978, Anthony Provenzano was convicted of murder, while the conspiracy to commit murder count was dismissed, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Kingston, New York, exactly one week later.
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On February 22,1979, Anthony Provenzano was indicted in the District of New Jersey, along with Gabriel Briguglio, Stephen and Thomas Andretta and Ralph Pellecchia on RICO charges in the Seatrain Labor Peace Payoffs case.
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On December 12,1988, Anthony Provenzano died of a heart attack at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary in Lompoc, California, aged 71.
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Anthony Provenzano was buried at St Joseph's Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.
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Anthony Provenzano left his estate to his French-Canadian second wife, Marie-Paule Migneron Provenzano.
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Anthony Provenzano is portrayed by English actor Stephen Graham in the film The Irishman.