1. John Roselli was born Filippo Sacco on July 4,1905, in Esperia, Lazio, Italy.
24 Facts About John Roselli
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John Roselli first fled to New York for three months, before moving on to Chicago, where he changed his name from Filippo Sacco to John Roselli.
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John Roselli moved to Los Angeles in 1924, pleading guilty to bootlegging that same year.
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John Roselli began his California criminal career working for small-time bootleggers, becoming the top truck driver for Tony Cornero.
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John Roselli was especially important in bribing and securing the loyalty of Orange County officials, opening up their ports for the gang's use.
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John Roselli first met Al Capone in 1927, on a trip to Chicago to attend the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney boxing match.
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John Roselli next met with Capone at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
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The Los Angeles branch of the Mafia was at the time under the leadership of Joseph Ardizzone, and John Roselli worked closely with Ardizonne's underboss, Jack Dragna.
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John Roselli led the mob's hostile takeover of the gambling ship Monfalcone.
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John Roselli was close friends with Columbia Pictures co-founder Harry Cohn.
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John Roselli established a corrupt administration where the city's underworld paid regular bribes directly to city hall.
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In 1942, John Roselli was indicted on federal labor racketeering charges, along with George Brown, former president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees union, and Willie Bioff, labor racketeer and former pimp.
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Later in 1942, John Roselli enlisted in the United States Army, where he served for three years before receiving an undesirable discharge.
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John Roselli's job was to ensure that the Chicago mob bosses received their share of the burgeoning casino revenues through "skimming".
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However, according to the Los Angeles office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Roselli was employed as a movie producer at Monogram Studios.
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John Roselli had a particular contempt for Castro and felt in some way responsible for the Bay of Pigs invasion failure as he had encouraged individuals to take part.
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John Roselli introduced Maheu to mob leaders Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante.
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On June 24 and September 22,1975, John Roselli testified before the 1975 US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence led by Idaho Senator Frank Church about the CIA plan to kill Castro, Operation Mongoose.
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Shortly before John Roselli testified, an unknown person shot and killed Giancana in the basement of his Illinois home.
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The FBI investigation summarized that John Roselli was killed by Frank "The German" Schweihs, Vincent Incerro and two other suspects.
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The contract was sanctioned by the Chicago Outfit's consigliere, Tony Accardo, because "John Roselli was becoming a public source of embarrassment to La Cosa Nostra".
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Bill Bonanno, the son of Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Bonanno, claimed in his 1999 memoir, Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story, that he had discussed the assassination of Kennedy with John Roselli and implicated him as the primary hitman in a conspiracy instigated by the mob.
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In 2010, Playboy magazine published an article by Hillel Levin in which John Roselli was implicated in the assassination by Robert "Tosh" Plumlee and James Files, an inmate within the Illinois Department of Corrections.
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John Roselli was portrayed by Chuck Shamata in the 2007 TNT miniseries The Company, which portrayed John Roselli's role in the CIA's unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.