What did Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro exactly do?

Question

What crimes did he commit and such? What are common stereotypes that are said that you know are or arent true?

Don't you think there are more things blamed on him that he really did?

And maybe not all of the movie is exactly true?

Answer 1

Anthony Spilotro is born on May 19, 1938 in ChicagTo get anywhere as a criminal in Chicago you had to be connected to the Outfit, the Chicago Family of La Cosa Nostra. And that's exactly what Spilotro did, he hooked up with Outfit enforcer "Mad" Sam DeStefano. Spilotro starts out as a debt collector for DeStefano but quickly gets involved in bigger crimes. Stay involved with the Mafia long enough and you'll be asked to commit that century old crime: murder. In 1962 Spilotro makes his bones in the M&M killings. Together with mob heavy's DeStefano, Felix Alderisio and Chuckie Nicoletti Spilotro tortures criminals Bill McCartney and Jimmy Miraglia. McCartney's head was put in a vice untill his eye popped out. After this gruesome murder Spilotro was considered golden material for the Chicago Outfit. After the M&M murders in 1963 Spilotro becomes a made guy in the Chicago Outfit and he leaves the protective wing of Mad Sam DeStefano and joins Felix Alderisio's crew.

Now a member of the Chicago Outfit Spilotro got assigned to a bookmaking territory on the North West Side of Chicago in this territory he controlled a few dozen bookmakers. In 1964 Spilotro was sent to Miami to work with Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal who was big in sportsbetting. Rosenthal was sent to Miami to control Chicago Outfit interests there, Spilotro was there to see to it that things ran smoothly and nobody muscled in. By 1967 Spilotro was back in Chicago fulltime. In 1971 Spilotro gets assigned to Las Vegas where he replaces Marshall Caifano. Spilotro sets himself up in the Circus Circus Casino and operated his business from the gift shop there. Spilotro operated under the name Anthony Stuart, Stuart was his wife's maiden name. The moment Spilotro arrived in Las Vegas he started taking care of lose ends. There were 5 murders where the victims were tortured before they were killed several casino employees were found buried in the desert.

Spilotro was having a good time in Las Vegas when in September 1972 Spilotro had to come back to Chicago when he was indicted in the Foreman case. Spilotro was indicted along with Mad Sam DeStefano and his brother Mario DeStefano another criminal named Crimaldi who was present at the Foreman killing had flipped and was the star witness. Things looked bad for Spilotro especially considering Mad Sam's court tactics which were crazed to say the least. Spilotro and Mario DeStefano figured that they had a chance of beating the case if they could somehow seperate their case from Mad SAm and so they decided to take Mad Sam out. In May of 1973 Mario DeStefano and Spilotro set up Mad Sam at his home and whacked him with a shotgun. On May 22, 1973 Mario DeStefano was found guilty and Spilotro was acquitted and went back to Las Vegas. But problems weren't over yet new indictments were coming. This time Spilotro was indicted together with Joseph Lombardo again there was a witness but that wasn't no problem for Tony and Joey in September of 1974 they found the witness and blew his head off. Without the witness there was no case and Spilotro and Lombardo were acquitted of all charges. Spilotro went back to Vegas for a final time.

In Vegas Spilotro ran things smoothly he saw to it that the skim from the casino's went as planned and that no other mobsters moved in on their operations. Spilotro worked close with his old partner Frank Rosenthal who was the boss of the Stardust Casino. But after a few years things started going bad for Spilotro. In 1979 Spilotro was added to the Las Vegas black book, an exclusion list with people listed that could not set foot in any of the Las Vegas Casino's. Spilotro was outraged but it didn't stop him from running his Las Vegas business. Besides the Casino's Spilotro also started his own gang named "The Hole In The Wall" Gang. This gang was made up out of Spilotro and his brother and their associates they were called the hole in the wall gang because when they stole most jewellery by making a hole in the wall. This gang was against the Outfit's orders, the Outfit ordered Spilotro to keep it quiet a gang of thieves wasn't exactly keeping it quiet. But the hole in the wall gang wasn't the worst rumors were floating around that Spilotro was selling drugs and sleeping with the wife of Frank Rosenthal when word got back to the Outfit bosses Spilotro's time was up. After several months on June 14, 1986 Spilotro and his brother Michael were summoned to an Outfit meeting. They were driven to an Indiana cornfield and beaten with baseball bats eventually they were buried alive. And so was the end of one of Las Vegas most notorious mobsters.
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Answer 2

Tony Spilotro was basically an enforcer for the Chicago mob. He was a brutal, sociopathic killer and was finally murdered in 1986. The Joe Pesci character in the movie "Casino" was based on Anthony Spilotro

Answer 3

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