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Mar 29, 2024 · Frank Nitti was an American gangster in Chicago who was Al Capone’s chief enforcer and inherited Capone’s criminal empire when Capone went to prison in 1931. Starting as a barber, Nitti became a fence for stolen goods and about 1920 joined Capone’s gang. He was sent to prison for 18 months after.
Aug 3, 2014 · Francesco Raffaele Nitto, better known as Frank Nitti or “The Enforcer”, followed Al Capone as leader of the Chicago Outfit in the years after Prohibition. He was boss more in name than fact, but he left a major stamp on the city’s Mafia organization by the time he killed himself to avoid prison time.
Apr 6, 2024 · Known as "The Enforcer," Frank Nitti orchestrated dozens of murders for Al Capone before becoming the boss of the Chicago Outfit himself. When legendary Chicago mob boss Al Capone was imprisoned on income tax charges, he hand-picked his first cousin, Frank Nitti, as the new gangland boss.
Frank Nitti was an Italian-born American gangster, best known as one of the top henchmen of the notorious gangster Al Capone. Nitti was in charge of the monetary matters of the ‘Chicago Outfit’ and later took control over the gang. Born in Campania, Italy, he was the first cousin of Al Capone.
March 19, 1943 · Chicago, Illinois, USA (suicide by gunshot) Birth name. Francesco Raffaele Nitto. Height. 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) Mini Bio. Although Frank Nitti has gotten the reputation over the years as the right-hand man of gangster Al Capone and a feared killer in his own right, this has actually proven not to be the case.
Aug 19, 2017 · In 1943, Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti was similarly charged with extorting millions of dollars from Hollywood studios such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox. Nitti, the brains of the...
Aug 9, 2017 · Associated Press. The body of Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti is carried away from the scene after it was found on March 19, 1943, near a railroad embankment in North Riverside, a Chicago suburb....
