Dominick Basso was arrested in January 1988 after being suspected of being an overseer of the Chicago Outfit's betting operations in DuPage County, Illinois and Chicago's northwest suburbs.
10 Facts About Dominick Basso
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In December 1988, Dominick Basso was convicted in Chicago of syndicate gambling and conspiracy to commit gambling and later was sentenced to 20 months of probation and 70 days of work release.
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At the time of Dominick Basso's arrest, betting slips showed that his clients often wagered large sums on baseball, football, basketball, and horse racing events.
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Dominick Basso had been reported by the Chicago Sun-Times to have operated a cleaning store to conceal his real occupation as the head of crime syndicate bosses who had controlled the Midwest's sports betting.
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Dominick Basso was identified in 1989 as having worked for mob chieftains Ernest Rocco Infelise, Donald Angelini, Dominic Cortina and Salvatore DeLaurentis.
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Dowd's aides told the Internal Revenue Service that Rose had placed bets with Dominick Basso believed to be more than $2,000 each on a variety of sporting events.
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The Chicago Sun-Times reported at the time that Rose had made calls listed to telephones in various locations where Dominick Basso operated sports betting operations.
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Dominick Basso lived in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois from at least the 1980s until 1999.
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Vincent Dominick Basso reaped $27,000 from betting on a basketball game between Arizona State and the University of Southern California.
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Dominick Basso died in Mount Prospect, Illinois on March 25,2001.