Matthew Trupiano

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Matthew M. "Mike" Trupiano, Jr. (born November 8, 1938 in Sicily , † October 22, 1997 in USA ) was a Sicilian-American mobster of the US Cosa Nostra and former boss of the Giordano family (St. Louis crime family) , with its headquarters from St. Louis ( Missouri ). from acts.

Life

Matthew Trupiano was on November 8, 1938 Detroit ( Michigan born) in a Sicilian-American family. His father immigrated from Messina ( Sicily ) to Detroit, where he met his future wife. Trupiano eventually got into trouble with the local Zerilli family (Detroit Partnership) in Detroit and was forced to leave the city.

With the help of his uncle Anthony Giordano , who was the head of the Giordano family in St. Louis, Trupiano moved to St. Louis and became part of the local organization. He soon became president of the Local 110 union , which was controlled by the Giordano family. When Anthony Giordano died of cancer on August 29, 1980 and John Joseph Vitale became the new boss of the family, Trupiano was accepted into the Cosa Nostra and officially a Made Man ( made man ). Two years later, on June 5, 1982, John Joseph Vitale died of natural causes and Trupiano became the new head of the family with Joseph Cammarata as his underboss .

In 1991 Trupiano was arrested for playing illegal rummy games in a back room of a St. Louis car dealership.

Since Trupiano was a leading figure in union work, the prosecution was able to charge him with embezzlement of union funds and in June 1992 he was relieved of his position as president of Local 110 following a criminal complaint .

In October 1992, Trupiano was found guilty of illegal gambling and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. The judge also advised Trupiano to distance himself from gambling. However, due to his poor health, Trupiano was released early from prison after 16 months.

Matthew Trupiano suffered a heart attack at his home on October 22, 1997 and was pronounced dead at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis County, Missouri .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Allan May: The St. Louis Family . Trutv.com. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  2. ^ Mario Machi: St. Louis Family . In: Investigative Journalists . Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com. 1999. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ United States Congress House Select Committee on Crime: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Crime . US GPO , 1973, p. 160, OCLC 175045115 .
  4. ↑ Machi, Mario, Allan May, and Charlie Molino. (1999). "St. Louis Family" . AmericanMafia.com. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b Jerry Capeci: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia . Alpha Books, 2001, ISBN 0-02-864225-2 , p. 91. ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Auble, John (2002). A History of St. Louis Gangsters . St. Louis, Missouri: The National Criminal Research Society. Pp. 105.
  7. ^ "The St. Louis Family" by Allen May TruTV Crime Library
  8. ↑ Henry Levin: MATTHEW Trupiano, KNOWN AS LEADER OF AREA MOB, DIES AT 58 . In: St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Oct. 24, 1997, p. 1C. 
personal data
SURNAME Trupiano, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trupiano, Mike; Trupiano, Matthew M. Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1997
Place of death St. Louis County, Missouri