1. Anthony Spilotro was the leader of the "Hole in the Wall Gang", a burglary crew he formed when he moved to Las Vegas in 1971.
14 Facts About Anthony Spilotro
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Anthony Spilotro eventually ran afoul of his superiors in Chicago over his handling of their Las Vegas concerns, and they arranged his murder on June 14,1986.
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Anthony Spilotro was born on May 19,1938, in Chicago, Illinois, the fourth of six children to Pasquale "Patsy" Spilotro Sr.
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Anthony Spilotro attended Burbank Elementary School in his childhood and entered Steinmetz High School in 1953.
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Anthony Spilotro's father had emigrated from Triggiano, Province of Bari, Italy, and had arrived at Ellis Island in 1914.
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Anthony Spilotro started his criminal career alongside his boyhood friend Frank Cullotta, engaging in theft, burglary and murder.
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In 1971, Anthony Spilotro moved to Las Vegas to help oversee the local concerns of the Chicago Outfit, which controlled four casinos on the Las Vegas Strip: the Stardust, the Fremont, the Hacienda and the Marina.
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Around this time, Anthony Spilotro had an affair with Geri McGee, the wife of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, whose casinos Anthony Spilotro had been sent to oversee.
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In 1982, Cullotta was imprisoned and approached by the FBI with a wiretap of Anthony Spilotro talking with someone about "having to clean our dirty laundry", which Cullotta took as an insinuated contract on his life.
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In September 1983, Anthony Spilotro was indicted for conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the Sherwin "Jerry" Lisner murder and released on $100,000 bail.
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Anthony Spilotro testified that Spilotro, his boss in Las Vegas, ordered him to make a telephone call that lured one of the 1962 murder victims, William McCarthy, to a fast food restaurant.
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Anthony Spilotro then went on to the first problem: Spilotro, and how things had gone down since he took over Vegas.
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Anthony Spilotro testified that, in 1986, she drove her husband from an Indiana cornfield where he told her he had just buried Spilotro.
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Anthony Spilotro became the key witness against his brother, Frank Calabrese Sr.