1. John Nardi was an influential associate of the Cleveland crime family who was involved in labor racketeering in Cleveland, Ohio.
18 Facts About John Nardi
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John Nardi is the cousin of Anthony Delsanter, brother of Nicholas Nardi and father of John Nardi Jr.
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John Nardi would become a representative of his uncle Anthony Milano, a retired consigliere from the Cleveland crime family.
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John Nardi earned his first police record entry in 1939 at the age of twenty three, while employed by a vending workers union to sell the services of their repair technicians, at which he could be overly enthusiastic.
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When John Nardi threatened a bar owner with bodily harm, Safety Director Eliot Ness ordered him to be arrested.
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John Nardi soon became business partners with Ohio Teamsters official William Presser, a mob associate and father of future Teamsters president Jackie Presser in several Jukebox companies.
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John Nardi formed ties with "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, a future boss with the Los Angeles crime family, with whom he ran a bookmaking operation in Cleveland's Little Italy.
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John Nardi soon built numerous street rackets such as drug trafficking, extortion, labor racketeering, arms trafficking, illegal gambling, and loan sharking.
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John Nardi could have enjoyed a bright future with the Cleveland family, but he was too independent and ambitious to accept its structure.
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Not content to wait years to become a made man, or full member, of the organization, John Nardi eventually stopped paying tribute to the family.
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In 1976, John Nardi returned from Florida where he successfully defended himself against federal narcotics and gun-running charges.
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In 1976, the dispute between the Cleveland family and the Greene-John Nardi alliance erupted into all out war.
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Greene and John Nardi then went after Eugene "the Animal" Ciasullo, the family's most feared enforcer.
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However, neither Greene or John Nardi travelled to New York again.
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Just weeks before his death, John Nardi granted an interview to a reporter inquiring about a rumor that Licavoli and he were feuding.
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John Nardi denied that Danny Greene worked for him stating that they were just friends.
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When John Nardi left his office and entered into his vehicle, the bomb was detonated by remote control.
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John Nardi was just a strong labor leader, leaving Cleveland in shock after his death.