Willie Moretti

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Guarino "Willie" Moretti (born June 4, 1894 in New York City , † October 4, 1951 in Cliffside Park , New Jersey ) was an American mafioso and underboss of the mafia clan from New York City, which later became Genovese Family was classified. His first name may also have been Guarano .

From early childhood, Moretti was a friend of Frank Costello , who also became his best man. When Frank Costello got a seat in the National Crime Syndicate , he left Moretti New Jersey . With the help of Joe Adonis, Moretti covered the coast and northern New Jersey with countless gambling dens for illegal gambling . Both became wealthy as a result. The crown jewel was the Marine Room in the Riviera Nightclub in Fort Lee , Bergen County (New Jersey). The show in the ostentatious ambience could be entered with a compulsory consumption of two drinks, but in the said back rooms gambling was practiced on a grand scale.

When Moretti's disease of syphilis reached its final stage in 1950 , in which the brain is attacked, the "Commission", the highest executive council of the American Mafia, feared that he would start talking at some point. During a subpoena on December 13, 1950, before the Kefauver Commission , a Senate committee under Senator Estes Kefauver , Moretti had admitted the existence of the Mafia in the United States.

Willie Moretti was shot dead by three killers of Albert Anastasia in a restaurant in Cliffside Park , New Jersey , in October 1951 . After his death, Vito Genovese became the new underboss of the Genovese family later named after him (under his leadership as head) .

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SURNAME Moretti, Willie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moretti, Guarino (real name); Moore, Willie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1951
Place of death Cliffside Park , New Jersey , United States