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Michael Spilotro was the brother of Anthony Spilotro and was an associate of the Chicago Mafia crime family "The Outfit". Tony the Ant Anthony Spilotro (May 19, 1938 - June 14, 1986) was a mafia enforcer for the Chicago Outfit who worked in Las Vegas in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as Cosa Nostra (which translates as Thing of Ours), is an organized criminal secret society which evolved in mid-19th century Sicily. ...
Outfit leadership in 1978. ...
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Michael Peter Spilotro was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1944. He was the son of Pasquale Spilotro (1899–1954) and his wife Antoinette. He had five brothers, Vincent, Victor, Pasquale Jr., Tony and John. Pasquale Jr. became an oral surgeon and dentist in the Chicago area and Vincent lived a law-abiding life. Tony, John and Victor became criminals like Michael. Chicago, Illinois is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help take it from Good to Featured article status. ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...
Victor Spilotro (1935-1997) was a Chicago mobster who was a brother to Anthony and Michael, but less notorious. ...
Michael was the manager of Hoagie's Pub on the west side of Chicago and stayed out of trouble until around 1980, when he started hanging around with members of The Outfit, including his brother Tony. He was friends with actor Robert Conrad and appeared as a stick-up man in Conrad's TV series The Duke in 1979. Robert Conrad Robert Conrad (born either Conrad Robert Falk or Konrad Robert Falkowski on March 1 in Chicago, although the year is still subject to question), is an American film and TV actor and director. ...
The Duke was a miniseries shown on NBC from April 5 - May 18, 1979. ...
By 1983, he was the man to see if you needed to talk to mobster Joey Lombardo in Chicago. He probably would have become a "made member" of The Outfit had his brother Tony not ended up in the doghouse. He was in so deep with Tony that he had to go too. Joey The Clown Lombardo (b. ...
A Made man is someone who has been inducted into La Cosa Nostra or the (usually Sicilian) Mafia. ...
He was beaten to death and buried with his brother Tony in a St. John, Indiana, cornfield on June 14, 1986. Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 38th 94,321 km² 225 km 435 km 1. ...
Events First year of tianfeng era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Philip Suriano's character, Dominick Santoro, in the film Casino is based on Michael Spilotro. Casino is a 1995 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling. ...
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