1. Louis "Little New York" Campagna was an American gangster and mobster and a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit for over three decades.
11 Facts About Louis Campagna
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In 1919, Louis Campagna was convicted of robbing an Illinois bank and sent to the Pontiac Reformatory in Pontiac, Illinois.
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Louis Campagna worked with fellow Sicilian Frankie LaPorte, the Chicago Heights boss, and was believed to be Capone's boss who reported back to the Commission for Chicago.
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When Louis Campagna discovered that Aiello was in jail on a murder conspiracy charge, he and 20 other Outfit gunmen went to the station to try to get him.
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When Louis Campagna arrived, the police noticed that he was carrying a handgun and immediately arrested him.
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In 1934, Louis Campagna invested approximately $1,500 of his own money in two illegal gambling dens in Cicero, Illinois.
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Louis Campagna then visited Bioff in prison and gave him the following answer:.
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Louis Campagna was sentenced a week later to ten years imprisonment in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
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However, apart from revealing his income from the Cicero gambling operations, Louis Campagna did not provide any useful testimony.
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On May 30,1955, Louis Campagna was fishing on his lawyer's boat in Biscayne Bay in Florida.
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Louis Campagna was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Hillside, Illinois, in what observers described as the most lavish mob funeral since Capone's death.