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Accardo allegedly took control of the Chicago mob when Ricca retired, but would deny it to his death. The IRS probed into Accardo’s bank accounts and indicted him in 1960 for tax evasion. He was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $15,000.
Oct 3, 2005 · The big boss, Tony Accardo, tapped Lombardo to serve in two key, overlapping roles: overseeing the Teamsters union's Central States Pension Fund (otherwise known as the mafia's bank because the...
May 28, 1992 · Anthony J. Accardo, who rose to become the reputed boss of the Chicago crime syndicate from a job as Al Capone`s bodyguard on no more than a 6th-grade education, died Wednesday night in St....
Accardo, Tony (“Big Tuna”) (b. 28 April 1906 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 27 May 1992 in Chicago, Illinois), gangster and mob boss of organized crime in Chicago, who was hailed as the “Genuine Godfather.” Accardo was born in Chicago’s “Little Sicily” to Francesco Accardo, a shoemaker, and his wife, Maria Tillota, a home-maker.
Feb 13, 2019 · Also known as Joe Batters and Big Tuna, Tony Accardo began his criminal career as a bodyguard for Capone and ended it as mob boss.
Oct 14, 2020 · A Brutal Enforcer and Rising Mafioso. Frankie Yale dead in the streets. Accardo made his mark in the Chicago Outfit as one of their most brutal enforcers. He was alleged to have killed three members of the Outfit believed to have been turncoats by beating them to death with a baseball bat.
Oct 29, 1995 · Roemer begins his biography of mob chief Tony Accardo with the phony birth certificate Accardo’s parents whomped up so he could drop out of school while he was only 14. As Roemer points out,...
