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In the film, Nitti dies after being thrown off a Chicago courthouse roof by Ness (Kevin Costner) during Al Capone's tax evasion trial in the early 1930s, well before his suicide in 1943. He is portrayed by Anthony LaPaglia in the 1988 biopic Nitti: The Enforcer .
Aug 9, 2021 · The man who police described as the finance minister and murder agent for the old Capone mob, which he took over when Big Al was packed off to prison for income-tax evasion, was a swarthy...
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.
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Apr 6, 2024 · 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. Already Capone’s most ruthless enforcer, Nitti would go on to survive at least one attempt on his life and extort millions from Hollywood movie studios — but was forever haunted by the ...
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.
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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.
Mrs. Frank Nitti, widow of the gang chieftain who shot and killed himself Friday, is the former confidential secretary to Edward (Easy Eddie) J. O’Hare, reputed front man for the Capone syndicate, who was slain by shotgun assassins on Nov. 8, 1939, persons close to the family disclosed yesterday.
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