Talk:Matthew M. (Mike) Trupiano, Jr.

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[edit] Wow!

OK. First thing's is first. Matthew Michael "Mike" Trupiano Jr. was allegedly the boss of the Mafia in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1982 to 1997.

The immigration part of the article regarding Trupiano's mother is completely made up.

Trupiano did relocate to St. Louis from his hometown in Detroit, Michigan, in the early 1960s after he piled up gambling debts he couldn't pay and allegedly was having an affair with the wife of a local Detroit mobster. Trupiano's mother was the sister of Anthony Giordano, the St. Louis mob boss from 1962 to his death in 1980. They were all American-born. Giordano pulled some strings with his criminal associates in the Detroit crime family and saved Trupiano's life. Giordano brought his nephew to St. Louis and put him to work in his gambling operations.

Again, Giordano died in 1980. Trupiano was made one year later by Giordano's successor, John Vitale. Vitale died one year after that in 1982. It was less than a month after Vitale's death -- in the summer of 1982 -- that Trupiano was elevated from soldier to boss of the Mafia in St. Louis because of his relationship with the Mafia in Chicago, Illinois.

Trupiano did do jail time from 1986 to 1987 on gambling charges. He got out and was busted again in 1990, once again on gambling charges. He ended up back in prison between 1992 and 1994 when he was paroled again. He died in October of 1997 of a heart attack. (Trupiano did NOT die of cancer as the author of the stub states.)

The reference part on "Leisures and Trupianos" by historian Allan May do not exist.

Somebody didn't know very much about what they were writing about when they wrote this and (to put it mildly) obviously the author of this stub needs some serious schooling on grammar. Lock & Key 07:04, 14 November 2007 (UTC)