Anthony Salerno

Anthony " Fat Tony" Salerno ( born May 1, 1911 in East Harlem, New York, † July 27, 1992 in Springfield, Missouri ) was a member of the U.S. Cosa Nostra and the head of the Genovese family in the 1980s. Usually he wore a fedora felt hat and smoking a big cigar; because of his excess weight, he received the nickname " Fat Tony".

Life

Salerno was born in East Harlem, where he also grew up. He rose to the rank ladder, starting as a loan shark and bat, the clan of the Genovese family in New York City to the very top. After the death of Frank Tieri in 1981, he was head of this family, but there was an informant ( Vincent Cafaro ) from their own ranks, who described him as a front man for Vincent Gigante, because " Fat Tony" was already considered seriously ill.

In 1984, the FBI recorded a conversation between " Fat Tony" and John " Peanuts " Trolone and the " Teamsters " Official William J. McCarthy, Roy Williams and Jackie Presser. McCarthy said in this conversation, to require the decision of a Mafia boss before he could move forward in the " Teamsters " on. And although the New York Times reported this conversation in 1988, McCarthy was 1989 president of the union.

In the course of investigations against Paul Castellano, who could be intercepted by the FBI in his villa, all individuals identified as leaders of the five families were arrested. However, were Salerno - as Castellano - set after payment of 2 million U.S. dollars bail on 27 February 1985 released. 1987 Salerno was summoned on the basis of the RICO Act against the "Mafia Commission Trial", which dealt with the corruption between Cosa Nostra and union.

" The prosecution of the Cosa Nostra processes of Manhattan in the summer of 1987 raises the boss of the Genovese crime family of Anthony Salerno, before that he and his people have manipulated the election of Presser ( IHT. June 3, 1987 ). Three months earlier, had the Police investigators questioned the 72 year old and diseased predecessors presser, Roy L. Williams, in the medical department of the State Prison of Springfield / Missouri and learn from him details. "

Anthony Salerno was sentenced to 100 years in prison. On 29 July 1992 he died from a heart attack in the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. Salerno died alone, because it was family members are not allowed to visit him. He was on the Saint Raymond 's Cemetery, Throgs Neck buried in the Bronx.

Movies and Movie Quotes

• In some episodes of The Simpsons occurs a mobster named " Fat Tony".
• In the movie Bulletproof Gangster him playing Paul Sorvino.