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Aladena James Fratianno [1] (born Aladena Fratianno; November 14, 1913 – June 29, 1993), also known as "Jimmy the Weasel", was an Italian-born American mobster who was acting boss of the Los Angeles crime family. After his arrest in 1977, Fratianno became an informant and entered the Witness Protection Program in 1980. He admitted to having ...
In 1978 mob boss Dominic Brooklier had tried to get Rizzitello to set up the murder of Jimmy Fratianno. Fratianno later turned state's evidence and testified against many of his fellow mobsters. Rizzitello was later put on trial for conspiring with Fratianno to attempt to kill a government witness for Pennsylvania crime boss Russell Bufalino ...
The two witnesses to the murder scene were Greg and Debbie Spoth. Debbie Spoth, the daughter of a Berea policeman, was a sketch artist who drew an amazing likeness of Ray Ferritto for authorities. She took the sketch to her father, who in turn, took it to Andy Vanyo, head of the Cleveland police intelligence unit, [ 23 ] who identified Ferritto ...
One history of crime in Los Angeles described the pair as "muscle-men and shakedown artists who made their living preying on bookies and gamblers". [2] According to the Mob Museum , the hit on the two Tonys was ordered by Jack Dragna and carried out by Jimmy "the Weasel" Fratianno and Charley Battaglia after the two Tonys had relieved Sam Lazes ...
No suspect was ever charged with the Two Tonys murders, and they remained unsolved. Although the LAPD still strongly suspected the L.A. mob of the murders, The Two Tonys murder case would remain unsolved until Jimmy Fratianno entered the federal Witness Protection Program over 25 years later, and admitted to murdering the duo with Charley ...
A police investigation revealed that Greene's murder had been a criminal conspiracy between the Mafia families of Cleveland, New York City and Southern California. The investigation also resulted in the defections of Ray Ferritto and Los Angeles boss Jimmy Fratianno, followed by the exposure and arrest of a mole inside the Cleveland FBI. The ...
The book begins in 1947 with Jimmy Fratianno becoming a made man in the Los Angeles crime family, then headed by Jack Dragna. It then goes back to Fratianno's early childhood, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1920s and 1930s. The book then generally follows a chronological timeline of Fratianno's life up to 1978, when under the threat of ...
One of many in the Licavoli family to become involved in organized crime, James Licavoli first arrived in Cleveland in 1938. [1] There he became good friends with Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno and Anthony "Tony Dope" Delsanter. Among their exploits at the time, they teamed up to rob northeast Ohio gambling halls.