Chilling portrait of a mob bookie
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bookmaking for Chicago mobsters.
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Mob suspect threatened pain `every time it rains´
June 21, 2001
BY STEVE WARMBIR FEDERAL COURTS REPORTER
The reputed mob soldier recounted in chilling detail the unusual threat
he made as he hunted down a man who owed him $55,000.
"When I find you, every day it rains, I'm gonna make you remember me,"
Anthony Giannone said in a conversation secretly recorded by the FBI and
played in federal court in Chicago Wednesday.
The man's joints would ache in rainy weather, apparently after Giannone
broke some of his bones.
A federal judge, after hearing those threats and others, ordered
Giannone, 37, held behind bars without bail at the request of prosecutor
Mark J. Vogel.
Giannone, an alleged drug dealer and bookie from Bartlett, also
threatened to kill his own father-in-law on the tapes, fearing the man
would cooperate with the feds against him, prosecutors said.
As for another possible witness against him, Giannone warned he would do
"the extreme" against him.
And in another conversation, Giannone expressed surprise after talking
to the father of the man who owed him $55,000.
Giannone is heard bragging on the tape how he threatened to sleep on the
father's lawn for three nights to catch his son coming home.
The father came back with a .45-caliber gun--and gave it to Giannone.
"When you find my kid, you can shoot him in the head and do the whole
world a favor," Giannone quoted the father as saying.
The son hadn't even shown up for Mother's Day, the father griped.
Giannone's attorney, Robert Rascia, called his client's recorded
conversations big talk but nothing else. He said the FBI has no evidence
that any of the talk resulted in action.
Giannone is charged with having more than 100 pounds of marijuana in his
possession when FBI agents raided the Elgin home of an associate June
11.
Federal authorities, in an effort to keep Giannone locked up, revealed
in court their wider investigation of him, alleging he not only deals
marijuana and cocaine but also is a member of organized crime and a
bookie.
FBI agent Steven K. Hall testified in court that undercover agents
placed bets with Giannone. In fact, the bookie still owes them $2,000
for winning bets, Hall testified.
One law enforcement source dubbed Giannone "a walking crime wave." He is
believed to be a foot soldier in the Elmwood Park and Bridgeport crews,
the source said.
Giannone was convicted of theft, gambling and battery during the 1980s.
Most recently, Giannone has two criminal charges pending in DuPage
County, one for having a gun, the other for gambling.
He violated his bond by taking a family trip--to Las Vegas, court
records show
Rick Baker
RB
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Frank Sinatra? John F. Kennedy? Jorge Montgomery?
Joseph G. Mitzen
thunde...@webtv.net says...
> Interesting reading here on the kinds of people involved in illegal
> bookmaking for Chicago mobsters.
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