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William Vito "Black Bill" Tocco (born Guglielmo Vito Tocco; February 12, 1897 – May 28, 1972) was an Italian-American mobster from Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan and a founding member of the Detroit Partnership of La Cosa Nostra.
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When William Vito “Black Bill” Tocco was born on 13 February 1897, in Terrasini, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, his father, Giacomo Tocco, was 39 and his mother, Nicolina Moceri, was 34. He married Rosalia Zerilli on 26 September 1923, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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Family tree of Jack Tocco. Bandit, burglar, crook, privateer. Born Giacomo William Tocco. Italian-American mobster. Born on October 29, 1926 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan , United States
Apr 29, 2022 · William Vito "Black Bill" Tocco (February 12, 1897 – May 28, 1972) was an Italian-American mobster from Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan and a founding member of the Detroit Partnership of La Cosa Nostra.
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Jun 24, 2011 · Peter Tocco's grandfather was William "Black Bill" Tocco, the Detroit mafia's founding father, establishing the crime syndicate in 1931 after winning a violent street war for gangland...
Jul 16, 2014 · Giacomo "Black Jack" Tocco — reputedly the longest-serving Mafia boss in American history — has died at the age of 87. He died at home on Monday afternoon. Tocco and his wife Toni raised a large...
The first official or "sitting boss" of the Detroit Partnership was William Tocco, born Guglielmo Vito Tocco in Terrasina, Sicily, in 1897 and known as "Black Bill" Tocco. Tocco had been one of the top leaders of the Eastside gang, along with Joseph Zerilli and Angelo Meli who became underboss and consigliere to Tocco.
