Talk:Anthony Spilotro
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I understand that someone who participated in the hit on the Spilotro brothers said that the murders did in fact take place in the basement of a mobster's home, but that seems to contradict the autopsy findings. According to the coroner sand was found in their throat and lungs, thereby implying that they were, in fact, buried allive. Is there any information besides his testimony to dispute this?
- I changed "the government had it all wrong" to "the government may have had it all wrong" and added the qualifier "according to Calabrese" to the statement that the two were not buried alive. Until the case is actually closed that seems appropriate. I wish the link to the newspaper story was still there.JeffStickney 22:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Web Address
The second link doesn't work. Does anyone know why?
[edit] Murder
As portrayed in the movie Casino, the character Nicky Santoro (based on Spilotro) was killed by Frank Marino (supposed to be based on Frank Culotta). Did Culotta take part in the killing of Spilotro after getting fed up of Spilotro's dirty work?
No. In real life, Cullotta flipped and tesitfied against Spilotro for the M & M murders and the Hole in the Wall gang's activities. Not to mention the fact that in Pileggi's book "Casino," Cullotta mentions that Spilotro tried to have him killed, but the guys who were suppose to carry out the hit shot up the wrong apartment. So he was probably in the the Witness Protection Program around the time of Spilotro's death in '86. There's alot of stuff going on right now about new evidence concerning the Spilotro Bros' Murders as well as other Outfit hits.
[edit] The Photograph
There's a photo of Spilotro with Oscar Goodman and Herbie Blitztein. But which one of the three is Spilotro? The one with the sunglasses or the short one?
The short one is Tony Spilotro.
[edit] Top Hoodlum?
"Blitzstein is described by FBI agent William Roemer in his book The Enforcer as one of the mobsters tested by the FBI in the early days of the Top Hoodlum Program."
WTF is the Top Hoodlum program? Is it so famous it needs no explanation? 68.166.69.57 07:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Spilotr2.jpg
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[edit] Potential information
Defense lawyer rips mob trial witness as 'liar' - 2nd Witness dismissed as Wikipedia hopeful for 'most famous informant' might have relevance to this article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 00:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Tspilotro3.jpg
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