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[Moo Cow]

Next on the hit parade was Louis Strauss, better known as "Russian Louie." Strauss had attempted to blackmail Benny "the Cowboy" Binion, a former Dallas bootlegger and now a Las Vegas developer. Apparently Strauss made his threats unaware that Binion had known Jack Dragna for many years. Binion promised Dragna a 25-percent interest in a future casino if he would handle this problem. It took 18 months, but in April 1953, Fratianno enticed Strauss into a setup in California. When Strauss entered the house Joe Dippolito performed the bear hug routine, while Bompensiero and Fratianno turned the Italian rope trick again. This time, oddly enough, four other mobsters were on hand to observe the strangling.

Several years later when the casino deal had failed to materialize, Fratianno brought this to Binion’s attention. Binion agreed to pay Fratianno $60,000 for murdering Strauss, a payoff the Weasel promptly split among his co-conspirators – Bompensiero, Dippolito, and "Milwaukee Phil" Alderisio, who drove Strauss to the murder house.

In 1955, Bompensiero was convicted on three counts of bribery in the sale of a California liquor license and sentenced to three-to-14 years in San Quentin. He would serve five years. A year before Bompensiero’s release, Fratianno was transferred to the same prison. While together, Bompensiero related to the Weasel that while he was awaiting trial on the bribery charges, he killed "Red" Sagunda, an ex-Cleveland thug who had made his way to San Diego.

During the time Bompensiero and Fratianno were away in prison, major changes were taking place in the Los Angeles Mafia. Jack Dragna died in 1957 and was succeeded by lawyer-turned-mobster Frank DeSimone. The family, which would become known as the "Mickey Mouse Mafia," grew weaker under his leadership. When DeSimone died in 1968, his replacement, Nick Licata, would prove to be even less effective.

Bompensiero was on probation from 1960 to 1965, a period during which he avoided problems with the law and, along with Fratianno, sought a transfer to the Chicago mob. Only the Weasel got the transfer.

In the mid-1960s, Fratianno claims he and Bompensiero had a series of meetings with attorney Joseph L. Alioto, the future mayor of San Francisco. Bompensiero knew many of Alioto’s relatives back in his hometown of Milwaukee. One of Alioto’s relatives was the boss of the Milwaukee Mafia from 1953 to 1962. In addition, Bompensiero was the godfather of Alioto’s cousin’s child. Bompensiero tried to work out a deal with Alioto’s brother-in-law, Rudy Papale, to sell lard in Mexico. In 1968, when Alioto was mayor and under consideration as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for vice president, these alleged meetings with Fratianno and Bompensiero would come back to haunt him. Alioto denied ever meeting Fratianno and swore in court, "I do not know and have never met Frank Bompensiero."

Although Bompensiero and Fratianno were close friends and shared many of their thoughts and feelings with each other, Bompensiero despised another intimate friend of the Weasel’s, Johnny Roselli. A representative of the Chicago mob in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Roselli, never a mob boss, commanded a great deal of respect. During the mid-1960s, Bompensiero told Fratianno about his reasons for disliking Roselli:

"These two guys (from Detroit) were having a feud and they went to see Joe Zerilli, each wanting the other guy clipped. So Mike Polizzi came to see me and this was strictly between us, nothing to do with the L. A. family. They tell me who they want clipped but I’ve got to do the job alone.

"As it happens I know the guy. So one night I see him at a party and I pull him aside. I says, ‘Look here, you’ve been having this problem and the old man’s given me the contract. I’m going to clip this guy but I’m going to need your help.’ Now this guy’s all happy, see, and I tell him I’ve got a bad back and I need him to dig the hole. We go out to this fucking place I’ve picked out ahead of time and this guy starts digging the fucking hole. Works like a sonovabitch, this guy, sweating bullets. So finally he says, ‘How’s that? Deep enough.’ I’m sitting down, resting, so I get up and I says, ‘It’s perfect.’ He starts climbing out of the hole and I shoot the cocksucker in the back of the fucking head. Back down he goes in the hole and I fill it in."

Bompensiero then told Fratianno that he was supposed to receive a percentage of the profits from the Frontier Casino in Las Vegas as compensation for the hit. When the Detroit mobsters reneged, Bompensiero went to see Johnny Roselli, the so-called "man in Las Vegas" to settle the beef. Instead of settling it in Bompensiero’s favor, Roselli ended up with a percentage of the gift shop there. Although Roselli later claimed to Fratianno that one had nothing to do with the other, Bompensiero would always hold this against Roselli and would freely badmouth him to Fratianno and others.

In July 1966, a local newspaper in El Centro, Calif., reported that Fratianno’s trucking company was working on a freeway project in the Imperial Valley. As rumors of "Mafia control" became lead stories, an investigation was launched and state charges were filed against Fratianno, Bompensiero, and three others for criminal conspiracy. In January 1967, the charges were dropped against Bompensiero, but in the end Fratianno lost his lucrative trucking business.

Sometime in 1967, Bompensiero became an informant for the FBI. His first assignment may have been alerting the FBI that George Seach was on the mob’s hit list. Johnny Roselli had been indicted in December 1967 on charges of fleecing members of the Beverly Hills Friars Club out of $400,000 in rigged gin-rummy games. Scheduled to testify against Roselli was Seach, a member of the gang, who was granted immunity as a government witness. Roselli asked Fratianno to kill Seach. Bompensiero and others staked out Seach’s home, but Fratianno was soon notified that the FBI had removed Seach to Hawaii for safekeeping.

In the early 1970s, Bompensiero cozied up to Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s new overseer in Las Vegas. Through this friendship, Bompensiero was able to do a little loansharking business in Las Vegas. In November 1975, he helped Spilotro locate and murder San Diego real-estate broker and investor Tamara Rand. Attacked in her home, the wealthy Rand was shot once in the head, once in the back, and three times under the chin once she was on the floor. The murder was carried out by Spilotro after Allen Glick, a mob-backed Las Vegas casino owner, complained to Chicago Mafia representatives that he was being pressured by Rand to make good on a promise he made to her following a $2 million loan.

After Nick Licata died in 1974, Dominic Brooklier took over the Los Angeles Mafia and things would go from bad to worse for Bompensiero. In 1975, Brooklier put out the word that Bompensiero was to be killed. Bompensiero’s loose lips and his constant bad mouthing of his mob associates, including Fratianno, led to this decision. Bompensiero would prove to be an elusive target.

As the months dragged on and Bompensiero was still alive, Louis Tom Dragna, the nephew of Jack and the acting family boss (Brooklier was serving a prison term), came up with a plan to put the San Diego boss at ease and bring him out in the open. They made Bompensiero consigliere of the Los Angeles Mafia. In March 1976, Bompensiero met with Louis Dragna and Fratianno in a restaurant to discuss family business and the pornography industry. During this meeting Bompensiero complained about getting rid of the "deadwood" in the family and was twice rebuffed for his comments by Dragna. When he got up to go to the bathroom, Dragna said to Fratianno, "He looks pretty relaxed, don’t you think? This’s working out great."

One of Bompensiero’s acts as consigliere was to help make a new member, Michael "Mike Rizzi" Rizzitello. The ceremony clearly indicated how far the Los Angeles Family had sunk. Bompensiero, Fratianno, and Dragna performed the initiation rite in Dragna’s automobile on a dirt road outside of Murrieta - Hot Springs, Calif. Instead of the traditional knife, gun, and burning saint, all they had was a sewing needle to prick Rizzitello’s finger.

During the March restaurant meeting, an FBI agent, sitting nearby, listened with interest as Fratianno talked about getting into the pornography business. The FBI then set up a dummy company called Forex and had Bompensiero endorse Forex to Fratianno and his associates. Fratianno, who avoided involvement with Forex, received a call not long after this from Rizzitello stating that the men who were running the Forex operation were FBI agents. He knew this because they had just served him with a subpoena. Fratianno and Rizzitello quickly realized that the endorsement to get involved with Forex had come from Bompensiero.

Fratianno got Bompensiero on the phone. He grilled him about the Forex operation, asking him where he got his information. Bompensiero made up a story about getting the information from a local pornography storeowner and told Fratianno he would check the guy out. Two days later Bompensiero called Fratianno and told him he had murdered the storeowner, a lie that confirmed the Weasel’s suspicions of Bompensiero.

As was his habit, Bompensiero would leave his home during the evening to walk to a payphone to place and receive important calls. On Feb. 10, 1977, the 71-year old Bompensiero took his last walk. On this night he encountered Los Angeles mob gunman Thomas Ricciardi, who murdered him. Ricciardi then jumped into a getaway car driven by Giacchino "Jack" LoCicero.

Fratianno would later meet up with Ricciardi and ask him about the murder. "Who was with you?" the Weasel inquired.

"Jack LoCicero. You know, that fucking Bomp, he shit his pants when he saw me with the piece. He tried to give me a tough time," Ricciardi replied.

"How tough a time can a guy with four slugs in his head give you?" wondered Fratianno.

Like Bompensiero before him, Jimmy Fratianno eventually became an FBI informant and would later be forced into the Witness Protection Program. He testified at many trials and became a sort of rat celebrity appearing on CBS’s 60 Minutes and on documentaries about the mob. In addition, he helped write two books abut his life; The Last Mafioso, with Ovid Demaris, and Vengeance is Mine, with Michael J. Zuckerman.

In February 1978, Fratianno testified before a Los Angeles grand jury to his knowledge of the activities of the crime family and of Bompensiero’s murder. Indictments were then prepared. The U. S. vs. Brooklier, et al., began with jury selection on Sept. 30, 1980. The media pointed out that the trial would be "a real-life La Cosa Nostra vendetta being settled with full public disclosure."

Tommy Ricciardi had died during open-heart surgery in 1979. Because he was the one who had told Frantianno that LoCicero had been the driver in the Bompensiero murder, this testimony would not be allowed to be brought out in court. After a three-week trial, five ranking members of the Los Angeles Mafia – Brooklier, Dragna, LoCicero, Rizzitello, and Sam Sciortino – were convicted on 11 of 22 counts of the indictment. Ironically, each was acquitted of Bompensiero’s murder. In July 1984, Brooklier died in a prison medical center in Tucson.

Marie Bompensiero, Frank’s widow, sued the government for carelessly causing the murder of her husband. Fratianno was named in the suit. She was suing Fratianno for $1 million. Fratianno surmised, probably correctly, that San Diego and Los Angeles mobsters were behind the suit to either draw him out in the open or discredit his previous testimony. Both the cases were dismissed after three days of testimony.

In June 1993, Fratianno, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in his sleep at the age of 79.

Allan May’s e-mail address is: AllanMay@worldnet.att.ne



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[Moo Cow]

A google search linking Binion Roselli Nicoletti and Giancana produced this but not in English ..is it German? I went to open the link and got a pop-up explaining opening or viewing the document could harm my computer??? Is this German????
Does anyone out there know????

[DOC] Mafia, Geheimdienste und Politik der USAFile Format: Microsoft Word
Auch Sam Giancana und Johnny Roselli von Chicago sowie Salvatore Granello und James ... Lewis McWillie, Benny Binion und Santos Trafficante, auf sich. ...
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Gesamt-Zusammenfassung - [ Translate this page ]Das letzte diskutierte Thema vor dem Mittagessen betrifft Sam Giancana und die Korruption ... Lewis McWillie, Benny Binion und Santos Trafficante, auf sich. ...
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[Moo Cow]

Any connection? I am surfing(and fishing) today....

http://hometown.aol.com/jimm844224/cate ... ews06.html

[Billy Boggs]

Those Crazy hackers are at it again LOL LOL.

http://mindtoysrus.com//board/

Nice tune.............

[Bruce Patrick Brychek]

Dear Moo Com,

I have received, and reviewed your emails.

I will make copies for Jimmy, and myself.

In response to one of your emails, during lunch Jimmy did/does not
slobber out of the side of his mouth, and is in excellent health.

Further, Jimmy is far from brain dead, and is actively engaged in several
complex, and intricate projects with me.

In addition, Jimmy was merely following orders which originated at the CIA,
and within the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. Had Jimmy not fired that
day, JFK would have been killed anyway. There were actually back-up
plans in place already. Although all serious JFK Researchers already know
most, if not all of that.

Jimmy is one of my closest, and oldest living friends, and I resent your
snide remarks. If you can't stay focued at an academic level, I have no
need for you.

Respectfully,
Bruce Patrick Brychek.

[Moo Cow]

Bruce Patrick Brychek wrote:Dear Moo Com,I have received, and reviewed your emails.I will make copies for Jimmy, and myself.In response to one of your emails, during lunch Jimmy did/does notslobber out of the side of his mouth, and is in excellent health.Further, Jimmy is far from brain dead, and is actively engaged in severalcomplex, and intricate projects with me. In addition, Jimmy was merely following orders which originated at the CIA,and within the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. Had Jimmy not fired thatday, JFK would have been killed anyway. There were actually back-upplans in place already. Although all serious JFK Researchers already knowmost, if not all of that.Jimmy is one of my closest, and oldest living friends, and I resent yoursnide remarks. If you can't stay focued at an academic level, I have noneed for you.Respectfully,Bruce Patrick Brychek.

I dont care its still called 'murder' no matter which way you look at it..maybe this man became a borne again christian and has repented or shown some remorse for his actions(Maybe he hasn't) but he still is held accountable for his actions.. This man he killed was most likely the most popular and well liked President in History;the next presidents Johnson and Nazi Nixon were the most hated..

BTW,I can see he 'was at it again' with the attempted murder of a police officer..If you want to hang with him, thats your business. I do not feel any affection towards him nor do I feel sorry for him. Check your spelling..at least I correct my mistakes.. who are you anyway?

[Moo Cow]

And another thing, go ask your buddy is he knows who Charles Harrelson is (he must since old charles was on the grassy knoll and has confessed) and please report your findings of fact back to this thread.Mil Gracias.

[Billy Boggs]

Remember when you judge him, if it wasnt for Jimmy Files we would have never known the truth. Just a thought........

[Moo Cow]

Billy Boggs wrote:Remember when you judge him, if it wasnt for Jimmy Files we would have never known the truth. Just a thought........

Yes, but he needs to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and NOTHING BUT the Truth...he is holding back on one party. and Old Moo KNOWS ...
if he wants to repent of his sins he needs to do this and not be a liar or withhold information...true repenters CONFESS so that others can get justice....

I see he is probably being treated better (has a roof over his head, three meals a day, and out of harm's way) which is more than can be said for the 6 million people in the USA today..(Thank the robber barons for that.)

[Moo Cow]

Bruce Patrick Brychek wrote:Dear Moo Com,I have received, and reviewed your emails.I will make copies for Jimmy, and myself.In response to one of your emails, during lunch Jimmy did/does notslobber out of the side of his mouth, and is in excellent health.Further, Jimmy is far from brain dead, and is actively engaged in severalcomplex, and intricate projects with me. In addition, Jimmy was merely following orders which originated at the CIA,and within the U.S. Military Industrial Complex. Had Jimmy not fired thatday, JFK would have been killed anyway. There were actually back-upplans in place already. Although all serious JFK Researchers already knowmost, if not all of that.Jimmy is one of my closest, and oldest living friends, and I resent yoursnide remarks. If you can't stay focued at an academic level, I have noneed for you.Respectfully,Bruce Patrick Brychek.

There is no factual evidence that JFK would have been murdered eventually... what kind of government tells its flunkies to kill the President of the United States? This is not America, but NAZi Germany!!!!
if someone offered me a million dollars to kill someone, I would NOT do it. He could have said no. he could have resigned..I see he still has a smirk on his face