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Anthony Spilotro
Anthony John Spilotro (né le à Chicago dans l'Illinois et mort le à Enos dans l'Indiana), est un mafieux italo-américain des années 1970 et des années 1980. Spilotro était surnommé « la fourmi » ou « Tony le dur » par la presse puis par le FBI. Son rôle au sein de l'Outfit de Chicago était principalement de surveiller et protéger les casinos illégaux de Las Vegas.
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[modifier | modifier le code]Anthony John Spilotro, quatrième d'une famille de six enfants (Vincent, Victor, Patrick, Johnny et Michael), est né et a grandi à Chicago. Il a été à l'école primaire de Burbank en banlieue de Chicago et est rentré au lycée Steinmetz High School en 1953. Ses parents Pasquale Spilotro (originaire de la région des Pouilles, arrivé à Ellis Island en 1914) et Antoinette Spilotro dirigeaient un restaurant, Chez Patsy, à l'angle des Avenues Grand et Ogden, adoré pour ses boulettes de viande maison qui attiraient des membres de la Mafia comme
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Tony Spilotro
(1938-1986)
Who Was Tony Spilotro?
Tony Spilotro's parents ran a restaurant in Chicago that became a hangout for local mobsters. In his early 20s, Spilotro became a "made" man in 1963 and would be sent to act as the mob representative in Las Vegas by the early 1970s, later forming his own faction, the Hole in the Wall Gang. His continued involvement in criminal activity would lead to Spilotro being blacklisted from casinos, making it difficult to enforce his position. Having angered his bosses and other associates with his actions in the Las Vegas underworld, Spilotro and his brother were brutally beaten and murdered by mob associates on June 23, 1986.
Early Life
Born Anthony John Spilotro on May 19, 1938, in a tough neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, Tony Spilotro was one of six children, all boys: Vincent, Victor, Patrick, Johnny and Michael. His parents, Pasquale and Antoinette Spilotro, were Italian immigrants who ran an eatery, Patsy's Restauran
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The Last Family Secret: 30 years after the Spilotro hit
CHICAGO (WLS) -- On June 23, 30 years ago, the mob's powerhouse brothers were discovered buried in an Indiana cornfield. The "last family secret" is how they got there.
The I-Team looks into Tony and Michael Spilotro's gods road trip, where it began and who was behind it.
"Do you have any fears at all for your life?"
The question to Tony "Ant" Spilotro was finally answered on June 23, 1986, when he and his brother Michael were found six feet under by a Northwest Indiana corn farmer.
"This don't look like any animal skin I've ever seen," the farmer said at the time.
The Spilotro's temporary resting place is still eerily visible thirty years later. How they ended up here fryst vatten not nearly as obvious.
The movie "Casino," Hollywood's version of the brother's death, shows outfit bosses beating them in the Indiana cornfield, somethin