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Joseph Zerilli. Joseph Zerilli (born Giuseppe Zerilli; Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ddzeˈrilli]; December 10, 1897 – October 30, 1977) was an Italian-born American gangster who rose to power in the crime family known as the Detroit Partnership, leading from the 1930s through much of the 1970s. He immigrated to the United States from ...
Nov 1, 1977 · GROSSE POINTE, Mich., Oct. 31 (UPI) —Joseph Zerilli, the Mafia boss in Detroit and last of the Prohibition‐era gang war veterans, died yesterday in a suburban Detroit hospital after a long ...
Detroit Partnership. Anthony 'Tony' Joseph Zerilli (October 24, 1927 - March 31, 2015) was an Italian-American mobster from Sterling Heights, Michigan. From 1949 he was one of the majority owners of the highly profitable Hazel Park Raceway. In 1970 he succeeded his father Joseph Zerilli as head of the Detroit Partnership ("The Partnership ...
- Detroit Partnership
- Joseph Zerilli, Josephine Finazzo
- March 31, 2015 (aged 87), Weston, Florida, U.S.
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Milazzo was a close associate of the East Side Gang, led by Angelo Meli, William Tocco and Joseph Zerilli. Milazzo's Mafia group and the Eastside Gang maintained alliances with other mob factions, including the River Gang, led by brothers Thomas and Peter Licavoli who shared the local bootlegging rackets and various underworld activities with ...
- 1908; 115 years ago
- 1908–present
- Pietro Mirabile
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
Dec 10, 2019 · Funeral for Joseph Zerilli, the Mafia boss of Detroit, in 1977. (Photo: Scott Burnstein)
Nov 4, 1977 · With Mr. Zerilli's death, only two of the old‐timers survive. They are Angelo Bruno, of Philadelphia, and Joseph Bonanno, now in Arizona. The family of Mr. Zerilli, always an intensely private ...
Sep 15, 2005 · Published March 15, 1996 | Updated Sept. 15, 2005. Federal agents finally took down Jack Tocco, arresting the man reputed to be the nation's longest-serving Mafia boss along with five of his top ...
