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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 ...
When Brooklier was sentenced to a 20-month prison stint along with underboss Samuel Sciortino in 1975, Jimmy Fratianno on Tom Dragna's request, transferred back to the L.A. family from Chicago, and was named co-acting Los Angeles boss with Dragna. [59] Fratianno traveled across the country making new connections and deals. [10]
However, the FBI was tipped off by new informant Jimmy Fratianno, and they intervened in the extortion incident. 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
His close associates in the Los Angeles mob included Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno and Leo "Lips" Moceri, both of whom he teamed up with on multiple occasions to commit mob sanctioned murders. In 1955, Bompensiero was convicted of bribery and conspiracy in an illegal liquor license transaction and was sentenced to 3–42 years in prison.
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 ...
Fratianno now implicated Brooklier in the 1977 Bompensiero murder. In 1978, Brooklier was indicted on charges of racketeering , extortion , and murder. In November 1980, he was convicted of racketeering and extortion, but was acquitted of Bompensiero's murder; he was sentenced two months later to five years in prison. [ 5 ]
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 ...
Brancato soon bailed out, and was murdered about 6 weeks later on August 7. 1951, by Los Angeles Mafia capo Jimmy Fratianno, who confessed to the famous Two Tonys murders in his book, The Last Mafioso