Vincent Alo

Vincent " Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo ( born May 26, 1904 in Manhattan, New York; † 9 March 2001, Florida) was a high-ranking American Mobster of La Cosa Nostra.

Life

Vincent Alo was born in 1904 in Manhattan and began to earn his money on Wall Street at the age of 14 years. In 1923 he landed in Sing Sing, after he was convicted of armed bank robbery. In 1926 he became a member of the American Mafia family with Joseph Masseria, which was later classified as a Genovese family.

Under the head of Lucky Luciano Alo came in contact with Meyer Lansky and Alo was the bodyguard because Luciano was afraid his childhood friend and business partner could be attacked in the budding controversy, particularly between the five families. There were always known the resources of the Bugs and Meyer Mob, Luciano had been instrumental in his conflicts.

In the 1930s, Vincent Alo and Meyer Lansky began working together immediately and went into the gambling business. Starting point here was 1936 Hallandale (today: Hallandale Beach ) in Broward County, Florida, where Julian " Potatoes" Kaufman wanted to convert a building into a kind of casino. Kaufman himself had not enough capital in order to achieve his goal, prompting Alo and Lansky went into this project. In the following years was alo one of the closest Italian-American friends of Lansky - involved and a native of Eastern Europe gangster boss to further gambling projects - especially after Luciano's imprisonment and subsequent deportation. Below in Cuba benefited during the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s, when American gangsters of the political situation and were able to build a gambling paradise. So Alo possessed example, a share of Lansky Riviera Hotel in Havana.

Vincent Teresa described Alo as a guard dog who was watching the one hand, that Lansky did not make short work of the bosses of the La Cosa Nostra, but on the other hand Lansky protected from their attacks.

Alo died in 2001 at the age of 96 years in Florida and was later buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

Film

The person Vincent Alo was in the movie The Godfather - Part II by Francis Ford Coppola by the figure of Johnny Ola (played by Dominic Chianese ) immortalized. Johnny Ola plays there the right hand of Hyman Roth ( portrayed by Lee Strasberg ), which is an allusion to the partnership Lansky Alo.