James Squillante

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James "Jimmy" Squillante aka Jerome Squillante , Vincent Squillante or Jimmy Jerome (* June 7, 1919 , † probably September 23, 1960 ) was an American mobster. He was a member of the Cosa Nostra in New York City .

Squillante was often referred to as the king of the garbage collection racket (English "King of the waste management crime") and was one of Albert Anastasia's contract killers and is thus to be assigned to the group later classified as the Gambino family .

Life

Vincent was the son of Luigi Squillante and Bedelia Alberti ; he had a brother named Nunzio and seven sisters. In 1949 he married Theresa Scialabba , with whom he had a daughter, whom they named after his mother Bedellia . However, he separated from his wife in 1951 and married Olivia Hughes , with whom he had two other daughters - Donna and Olivia .

The infiltration of the garbage collectors ( "labor racketeering" ) by the mobsters in New York City ran parallel to the development of the Teamsters union as a whole - to which the garbage collectors belonged - and began as early as 1955 when the garbage collectors contacted "Local 813" organized by the union. The driving force in the background was Squillante.

In 1963, the Pentito Joe Valachi disclosed the role of Squillante ; accordingly Squillante is said to have been involved in the murder of clan boss Frank "Don Cheech" Scalise . He is also said - along with seven other people involved - to have killed his brother Joe on September 7, 1957 in his house because he had sworn revenge for his brother's death and did not want to give up. The dismembered body was taken away by garbage trucks and disposed of.

Sometime in September 1960, there is also no trace of Jimmy Squillante ; allegedly he was shot on September 23rd and pressed together in a scrap car and melted down in a steel furnace. Apparently leading mafiosi feared that Squilante would not get through an upcoming court case and eliminated the potential risk.

additional

In 1975, the Teamsters union official Jimmy Hoffa - according to one of the popular theses - is said to have been 'disposed of' in a similar manner. There is still no trace of either body to this day.

literature

  • Carlo Devito: Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime . New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0-8160-4848-9
  • John H. Davis: Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family . New York: HarperCollins, 1993
  • Stephen Fox: Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America . New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 978-0-688-04350-6
  • Robert J. Kelly: Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-30653-2
  • Robert F. Kennedy : The enemy within , 1964
  • Peter Reuter: Racketeering in Legitimate Industries: A Study in the Economics of Intimidation , 1987
  • Jay Robert Nash: Encyclopedia of World Crime (SZ) Vol. IV , CrimeBooks Inc., Wilmette, 1990. ISBN 0-923582-00-2
  • Carl Sifakis:
    1. The Mafia Encyclopedia . New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8160-5694-1
    2. The Encyclopedia of American Crime . New York: Facts on File Inc., 2001. ISBN 978-0-8160-4040-7
  • Mafia: The Government's Secret File On Organized Crime

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nevada Observer: "CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF LA COSA NOSTRA IN THE UNITED STATES: JANUARY 1920 - AUGUST 1987" ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.nevadaobserver.com (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nevadaobserver.com
personal data
SURNAME Squillante, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Squillante, Jimmy (nickname); Squillante, Jerome; Squillante, Vincent; Jerome, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1919
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: September 23, 1960