Anthony Spilotro (May 19, 1938 – June 14, 1986) was an Italian-American mobster and enforcer for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas during the 1970s and 1980s. His job was to protect and oversee the Outfit's illegal casino profits (the "skim"). Spilotro replaced Outfit member Marshall Caifano in Las Vegas.
Born Anthony John Spilotro (pronounced spil-oh-tro, according to William Roemer when he asked John Spilotro how Pasquale, Sr. pronounced it), he ...
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Anthony Spilotro (May 19, 1938 – June 14, 1986) was an Italian-American mobster and enforcer for the Chicago Outfit in Las Vegas during the 1970s and 1980s. His job was to protect and oversee the Outfit's illegal casino profits (the "skim"). Spilotro replaced Outfit member Marshall Caifano in Las Vegas.
Born Anthony John Spilotro (pronounced spil-oh-tro, according to William Roemer when he asked John Spilotro how Pasquale, Sr. pronounced it), he was nicknamed "Tony the Ant," by the press, after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent William F. Roemer, Jr. referred to Spilotro as "that little pissant." Since the press couldn't use "pissant," they shortened it to the "Ant." He was also called Tough Tony.
The fourth of six children, Spilotro was born and raised in Chicago. A bully from an early age, he went to Burbank Elementary School, and later entered Steinmetz High School in 1953. His parents, Pasquale Spilotro, Sr. (who emigrated from Triggiano, in the Italian Province of Bari,...
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