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There doesn’t seem to be much video available showing the real-life woman portrayed by Sharon Stone in the 1995 hit movie “Casino.”
But one video on YouTube includes rare footage of Geri Rosenthal dancing at pop singer Paul Anka’s $3-million Las Vegas restaurant and disco, Jubilation. To view the video, click here.
The 10,000-square-foot Jubilation was near the Las Vegas Strip at 75 E. Harmon Ave. across from what now is Planet Hollywood. These days, the property is part of the Marriott Vacation Club Grand Chateau.
In a 2015 “Video Vault” on Channel 3, Las Vegas television reporter Tom Hawley takes a look back at the Jubilation. You can view his story by clicking here.Rosenthal Casino Speisekarte
As Hawley’s piece indicates, Jubilation was the place to be in Las Vegas during the disco era. In the midst of that craze, Geri Rosenthal’s husband, underworld figure Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal (Robert De Niro in the movie), filmed the episode of his local variety show that now is on YouTube.
Visiting Rosenthal. Visitors are sure to enjoy all that Rosenthal has to offer. There are 270 hotels and other accommodations in the surrounding area. Sightseeing and Staying in Rosenthal. Places to visit in the larger region include Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, St. Elizabeth Church, and Old Botanical Garden. Book Rosenthal Casino, Selb on Tripadvisor: See 29 traveller reviews, 24 candid photos, and great deals for Rosenthal Casino, ranked #2 of 3 B&Bs / inns in Selb and rated 4 of 5 at Tripadvisor.
In the episode, Frank Rosenthal interviews his wife moments before she dances with Jeff Kutash, a casino showroom choreographer who was a guest on Rosenthal’s television show that night in 1979.
At the time, Frank Rosenthal was the overseer of four casinos in Las Vegas for Midwestern mob bosses, most notably the now-demolished Stardust, managing the skim, or the theft, of untaxed gambling revenue.
His local program, “The Frank Rosenthal Show,” had begun two years earlier, appearing irregularly on Channel 13 at 11 p.m. on Saturdays.
This episode, which features both Rosenthals dancing at the end of the broadcast, was shot at 3:30 a.m. inside the crowded Jubilation. The co-host was professional dancer and Las Vegas resident Pam Payton.
Much of the episode capitalizes on the disco-dance fervor of that period. Just that week, the April 2, 1979, edition of Newsweek magazine had come out, featuring singer Donna Summer on the cover with the headline “Disco Takes Over.” On camera, Rosenthal holds up a copy of that issue of the magazine.Casino Frank Rosenthal
After discussing disco’s popularity, Frank Rosenthal and Kutash wander over in an obviously staged bit to interview Geri Rosenthal, where she is seated at a table with Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried and Roy.
At the table, Geri Rosenthal remains in her seat for a moment while her husband, who is holding a microphone, asks if she is a former dancer.
“Yes, I think you could say that,” she replies. What she doesn’t say is that she had been a showgirl years earlier at the Tropicana hotel-casino.
Frank Rosenthal then questions his wife about her height. She says is five-feet-nine-and-a-half-inches tall. A moment later, at Kutash’s invitation, she stands up, towering over the choreographer.
Kutash, a disco enthusiast, encourages Geri Rosenthal to dance with him, asking, in disco lingo, “When’s the last time you had a good freak or a good rock or a good hustle?”
She answers, “The best things I ever had were always with my husband.”
“I won’t argue with that,” Kutash says before ushering her away from the table to dance with others to the disco hit “Boogie Oogie Oogie.”
Given what the world now knows about the Rosenthals, that pre-dance exchange between Geri Rosenthal and Jeff Kutash about “a good freak or a good rock or a good hustle” takes on ironic significance.
As it turns out, Geri Rosenthal was involved in a love affair at some point during this period with Anthony Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s street enforcer in Las Vegas. That affair, and its tragic consequences, became the basis of journalist Nicholas Pileggi’s 1995 nonfiction book, “Casino,” and the fictionalized big-screen version the same year. In the movie, Joe Pesci plays the Anthony Spilotro character.
For the Rosenthals, extramarital affairs and alcohol-fueled fights were a part of life.
On April 5, 1979, only three days after the publication date on the Newsweek disco cover that Frank Rosenthal displays for the camera, Geri Rosenthal wrote to her daughter that he came home drunk the previous night, April 4, and choked her into unconsciousness. Geri Rosenthal ended up with a cracked rib, two black eyes and bruises all over her body, she told her daughter in the letter. Presumably the beating took place only days after the show was filmed.
Soon, that tumultuous part of Las Vegas’ history would end without any glamorous high notes, to be immortalized later by the book and movie.
In 1986, Spilotro and his brother were beaten to death in the basement of a home near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and buried south of there in an Indiana cornfield, one on top of the other in their underwear. They were killed for bringing too much attention to the mob’s lucrative but illegal operations in Nevada.
As for the Rosenthals, they split up several years before the Spilotro brothers were murdered and, separately, faced bleak moments of their own before dying on different coasts.
In 1982, Frank Rosenthal was injured when his car exploded in the parking lot of a Tony Roma’s restaurant on East Sahara Avenue near the Las Vegas Strip. The incident has never been solved, though some in law enforcement suspect Spilotro was responsible. Rosenthal left Las Vegas not long after the bombing, ultimately moving to Florida, where he died of a heart attack in 2009 at age 79.
About a month after the car bombing, on Nov. 6, 1982 — and only three years after the Jubilation disco-dance episode now on YouTube — Geri Rosenthal, with bruises on her legs and liquor, drugs and tranquilizers in her system, stumbled into the lobby of the Beverly Sunset Motel, 8775 Sunset Blvd., at 4:35 a.m. and collapsed. She died three days later at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. She was 46 years old.
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Frank ’Lefty’ Rosenthal was a mob associate who operated Las Vegas casinos on behalf of the Chicago Outfit bosses in the 1970s. Rosenthal was made famous through actor Robert De Niro’s character, Sam ’Ace’ Rothstein, in the 1995 movie Casino. The movie told the story of Rosenthal’s close association with Outfit member Anthony ’Ant’ Spilotro (represented by Joe Pesci’s character Nicholas ’Nicky’ Santoro) and their rise together in the Chicago underworld.
Rosenthal and Spilotro both were born in Chicago and grew up around local mobsters. Rosenthal gradually made a name for himself as a sports handicapper and gambling expert. Spilotro came to the attention of Outfit leaders by handling the rough stuff as an enforcer. Both men eventually were assigned to oversee Outfit financial interests in Las Vegas casinos. Rosenthal used his gambling expertise to increase casino revenues and maximize the illegal skim - the siphoning off of a portion of casino revenues before they could be counted and taxed. And Spilotro was the mob heavy in the shadows who kept everyone in line.
The arrangement worked well at first. The casinos operated by Rosenthal became the talk of the town. And Spilotro was able to dominate organized crime in the city. But, over time, friction developed between the two men. Spilotro grew resentful of Rosenthal’s success and high profile in Las Vegas. And Rosenthal became angry with Spilotro for sleeping with Rosenthal’s wife and for attracting unnecessary law enforcement scrutiny to their criminal activities. A dispute with the Nevada Gaming Commission eventually forced Rosenthal out of Las Vegas and the casino business.
Nevada exclusion listentry for Rosenthal
The house of cards would all come down in the 1980s when Outfit leaders were convicted of skimming profits from casinos and sentenced to long prison terms. They dealt with Spilotro by killing him and his brother.
After Rosenthal died in 2008, it was reported that he had been a confidential informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation going back decades. Operating under the codename ’Achilles,’ Rosenthal fed the FBI information that was used to make ’a lot of organized crime and skimming cases.’ [1]
The full extent of Rosenthal’s cooperation has remained a mystery, but newly released FBI documents show for the first time some of the information he shared with federal agents.
According to the FBI, Rosenthal supplied Intel about many high-profile mob murders, including those of former Outfit boss Samuel Giancana and legendary mobster Johnny Roselli. And he helped law enforcement crack the murder of seven burglars tied to the robbery of Outfit boss Anthony Accardo’s residence.Murder of Roselli
Johnny Roselli was a longtime La Cosa Nostra member with connections to the Los Angeles Crime Family and the Chicago Outfit going back to the 1930s. He led the mob’s infiltration of Hollywood studios in the 1940s, and he supervised the mob’s interests in Las Vegas in the 1950s. His life took an unexpected turn in the 1960s, when he conspired with the Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The available FBI reports don’t indicate if Rosenthal knew Roselli personally, but it seems likely their paths would have crossed in Las Vegas, Chicago or Florida at some point over the years.
By the 1970s, Roselli had fallen on hard times and was borrowing money from his criminal associates to get by. His loose lips were also making his mob superiors uneasy. Testimony he had given before a grand jury investigating mob influence in Las Vegas was used to haul Outfit bosses Paul Ricca and Anthony Accardo into court. [2] And he testified for two hours before the United States Congress about the Mafia’s role in the CIA-backed plots against Castro.
Roselli was found murdered on August 9, 1976, floating in a barrel in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami. He had been stabbed multiple times and strangled with a rope.
Detroit Free Press, March 1977.
According to Rosenthal, Roselli was killed on orders of Outfit top boss Anthony Accardo. [3]
Rosenthal said Roselli had become a ’public source of embarrassment to the LCN,’ The murder was allegedly committed by Outfit hitman Frank Schweihs and LCN member Vincent Inserro and two other unidentified individuals. Inserro was Anthony Spilotro’s old mentor in the Outfit.
Two days before the murder, Rosenthal said that Outfit boss Joseph Aiuppa called Schweihs from a public telephone booth in the Chicago-area ’to discuss the Roselli murder.’ Rosenthal wasn’t able to provide additional information about the murder.
Schweihs was considered a prime suspect in Roselli’s murder from the start. Originally from Chicago, he had a long criminal record and had acquired a reputation as an Outfit hitman. He was a resident of Florida for some time and had been arrested there a year before Roselli’s murder for attempting to rob a bank. At the time of his arrest in the bank heist, Schweihs was driving a paint truck. This corresponded to ’physical evidence’ left later at Roselli’s murder scene. According to the FBI, Roselli’s killers ’may have had access to automotive related business.’
Over the years, the FBI received numerous tips from underworld informants about Roselli’s murder but none of them led to an arrest. The murder has never been officially solved.The Blazers
In the 1970s, the Outfit compartmentalized their enforcement arm under a group called the ’Blazers.’ The hit squad was headed up by Charles Nicoletti and included hitmen Frank Schweihs, Joseph Lombardo and the Spilotro brothers. [17] These men were responsible for a good percentage of the murders committed by the Outfit during that period.Other mob murders
Frank Rosenthal identified alleged killers (and the motives in some cases) in the following mob murders:Edward BuccieriKilled May 12, 1975, in Las Vegas, Nevada, shot five times in the head in the parking lot of Caesar’s Palace casino.Buccieri was pressuring casino owner Allen Glick for money. According to Rosenthal, the killing was carried out by Anthony Spilotro, Joey Hansen and Paul Schiro. While Rosenthal told the FBI that Buccieri was targeted at the request of Glick, Glick was never charged with the crime. [4] Hansen from California and Schiro from Arizona were members of Spilotro’s crew. They grew up together in Chicago.August ManiaciKilled September 11, 1975, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shot next to his automobile outside his residence.Maniaci was a member of the Milwaukee Crime Family. Rosenthal said the hit was ordered by Milwaukee boss Frank Balistrieri, although he didn’t give a motive. Another FBI witness said Maniaci had argued with Balistrieri and his underboss Steve DiSalvo in the days prior to the shooting. Maniaci had been a longtime FBI informant, but there is no evidence that played a part in his death. He was killed by a gun purchased from the same gun store at the same time as the gun used to kill former Outfit boss Samuel Giancana. [5] [6]Tamara RandKilled November 9, 1975, in San Diego, California, shot five times in the head at home.Rand was seeking an ownership stake in Allen Glick’s casino holdings. According to Rosenthal, the hit was committed by Outfit hitman Harry Aleman and an unidentified individual known only as ’Corky’. [7] Rosenthal told the FBI the murder was carried out at the behest of Glick, but no charges related to this crime were ever filed against Glick. [8] Aleman was a suspect in many other murders in the 1970s. He was sentenced in 1997 to more than a hundred years in prison following conviction for a 1972 shotgun killing of a union official. He died in prison in 2010.Samuel GiancanaKilled June 19, 1975, in Oak Park, Illinois, shot seven times in the head.According to information provided to the FBI by Rosenthal, Joseph Aiuppa (mistakenly called ’Frank’ in this report), James Torello, Joseph Lombardo and Joseph Amato were ’responsible’ for the murder. Rosenthal didn’t say if the men were actually present at the murder, but that seems unlikely given Aiuppa’s age and prominence. It is probable that top boss Anthony Accardo would have had to sign off on the murder.Charles NicolettiKilled March 29, 1977, in Northlake, Illinois, shot three times in the back of the head while sitting in his automobile.Rosenthal didn’t have solid information about this hit but said he ’feels’ it was likely committed by Harry Aleman. This suggests the hit was sanctioned by the Outfit. [9]Raymond RyanKilled October 19, 1977, in Evansville Indiana, bomb detonated as he entered his automobile.Ryan was a businessman who had testified against Outfit member Marshall Caifano in an extortion case. According to Rosenthal, the hit was carried out by Frank Schweihs on orders of Joseph Aiuppa. [10]BurgmursKilled January, 1978, to April, 1978, in Chicago, Illinois, area.In the Burgmurs case, the Outfit eliminated seven burglars connected to the robbery of Anthony Accardo’s residence. [11] Rosenthal said the killings were ordered by Accardo. He said the hits were ’organized’ by Joseph Aiuppa’s former chauffeur, Gerry Carusiello. Rosenthal’s tip appears to have led investigators to zero in on Carusiello. Telephone records later established that Carusiello had called each murder victim multiple times in the days leading up to their deaths.Significance of codename ’Achilles’?
In Greek mythology, Achilles was a great warrior who fought in the Trojan War. Achilles died after an arrow pierced his heel, the only vulnerable part of his godlike body. Was the codename a wordplay on Rosenthal’s potential ability to take down the invincible Chicago Outfit like Achilles took down Troy’s greatest warrior, Hector?Rosenthal’s information
The information supplied by Rosenthal about the murders generally corresponded with information law enforcement developed from other sources. Rosenthal told the FBI that his information about the murders was second hand. [12] According to the FBI, the information was ’made accessible to him’ because of his close association with Outfit leaders. [13] That doesn’t mean Rosenthal’s information is accurate in all aspects, but it provides a high degree of credibility.
According to the FBI, Rosenthal’s information was ’singular in nature and its disclosure outside the FBI would, therefore, seriously jeopardize the safety of [Rosenthal].’ [14] There is no doubt he would have been killed had word leaked out about his cooperation.Frank Rosenthal Interview Casino
The only significant claim made by Rosenthal that raises a red flag is pinning the murder of Giancana on Joseph Aiuppa, James Torello, Joseph Lombardo and Joseph Amato.
No one was ever charged in Giancana’s death but it has been generally accepted by law enforcement that the prime suspect was Dominic ’Butch’ Blasi. He was Giancana’s closest companion and the last person to see him alive.
How does that square with what Rosenthal said?
A careful reading indicates Rosenthal only claimed that Aiuppa and the others were ’responsible’ for Giancana’s death. That could be interpreted to mean they were the driving force behind the murder, but Blasi, or someone else, actually pulled the trigger.
It’s not clear exactly what pushed Rosenthal into the arms of the FBI, but by 1978 at least, Rosenthal was talking. [15] His contacting agent, at one point anyway, was Special Agent Zachary Shelton from the FBI’s Chicago office. [16] Rosenthal’s relationship with formerly close underworld associate Anthony Spilotro had soured bitterly by this point, so that likely had something to do with his actions. Rosenthal probably looked at the odds before him and decided it was his best play.
Notes
Thanks to Richard Warner for referring the writer to the Morrison article linking Frank Rosenthal and ’Achilles.’
1 Morrison, Jane Anne. ’Lefty’ Rosenthal was an FBI snitch,’Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct. 30, 2008. This was the first time Rosenthal’s cooperation was publicly exposed and his codename was revealed.
2 FBI, John Roselli, Los Angeles Office, Nov. 27, 1970, NARA Record No. 124-10289-10008.
3 FBI, Roskil, Miami Office, June 17, 1978, NARA Record No. 124-10356-10272; FBI, Roskil, Miami Office, Dec. 15, 1979, NARA Record No. 124-10356-10216.
4 FBI, Roskil Gangmurs, Miami Office, Feb. 27, 1979, NARA Record No. 124-10356-10302; Nicholas Pi
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There doesn’t seem to be much video available showing the real-life woman portrayed by Sharon Stone in the 1995 hit movie “Casino.”
But one video on YouTube includes rare footage of Geri Rosenthal dancing at pop singer Paul Anka’s $3-million Las Vegas restaurant and disco, Jubilation. To view the video, click here.
The 10,000-square-foot Jubilation was near the Las Vegas Strip at 75 E. Harmon Ave. across from what now is Planet Hollywood. These days, the property is part of the Marriott Vacation Club Grand Chateau.
In a 2015 “Video Vault” on Channel 3, Las Vegas television reporter Tom Hawley takes a look back at the Jubilation. You can view his story by clicking here.Rosenthal Casino Speisekarte
As Hawley’s piece indicates, Jubilation was the place to be in Las Vegas during the disco era. In the midst of that craze, Geri Rosenthal’s husband, underworld figure Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal (Robert De Niro in the movie), filmed the episode of his local variety show that now is on YouTube.
Visiting Rosenthal. Visitors are sure to enjoy all that Rosenthal has to offer. There are 270 hotels and other accommodations in the surrounding area. Sightseeing and Staying in Rosenthal. Places to visit in the larger region include Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, St. Elizabeth Church, and Old Botanical Garden. Book Rosenthal Casino, Selb on Tripadvisor: See 29 traveller reviews, 24 candid photos, and great deals for Rosenthal Casino, ranked #2 of 3 B&Bs / inns in Selb and rated 4 of 5 at Tripadvisor.
In the episode, Frank Rosenthal interviews his wife moments before she dances with Jeff Kutash, a casino showroom choreographer who was a guest on Rosenthal’s television show that night in 1979.
At the time, Frank Rosenthal was the overseer of four casinos in Las Vegas for Midwestern mob bosses, most notably the now-demolished Stardust, managing the skim, or the theft, of untaxed gambling revenue.
His local program, “The Frank Rosenthal Show,” had begun two years earlier, appearing irregularly on Channel 13 at 11 p.m. on Saturdays.
This episode, which features both Rosenthals dancing at the end of the broadcast, was shot at 3:30 a.m. inside the crowded Jubilation. The co-host was professional dancer and Las Vegas resident Pam Payton.
Much of the episode capitalizes on the disco-dance fervor of that period. Just that week, the April 2, 1979, edition of Newsweek magazine had come out, featuring singer Donna Summer on the cover with the headline “Disco Takes Over.” On camera, Rosenthal holds up a copy of that issue of the magazine.Casino Frank Rosenthal
After discussing disco’s popularity, Frank Rosenthal and Kutash wander over in an obviously staged bit to interview Geri Rosenthal, where she is seated at a table with Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried and Roy.
At the table, Geri Rosenthal remains in her seat for a moment while her husband, who is holding a microphone, asks if she is a former dancer.
“Yes, I think you could say that,” she replies. What she doesn’t say is that she had been a showgirl years earlier at the Tropicana hotel-casino.
Frank Rosenthal then questions his wife about her height. She says is five-feet-nine-and-a-half-inches tall. A moment later, at Kutash’s invitation, she stands up, towering over the choreographer.
Kutash, a disco enthusiast, encourages Geri Rosenthal to dance with him, asking, in disco lingo, “When’s the last time you had a good freak or a good rock or a good hustle?”
She answers, “The best things I ever had were always with my husband.”
“I won’t argue with that,” Kutash says before ushering her away from the table to dance with others to the disco hit “Boogie Oogie Oogie.”
Given what the world now knows about the Rosenthals, that pre-dance exchange between Geri Rosenthal and Jeff Kutash about “a good freak or a good rock or a good hustle” takes on ironic significance.
As it turns out, Geri Rosenthal was involved in a love affair at some point during this period with Anthony Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s street enforcer in Las Vegas. That affair, and its tragic consequences, became the basis of journalist Nicholas Pileggi’s 1995 nonfiction book, “Casino,” and the fictionalized big-screen version the same year. In the movie, Joe Pesci plays the Anthony Spilotro character.
For the Rosenthals, extramarital affairs and alcohol-fueled fights were a part of life.
On April 5, 1979, only three days after the publication date on the Newsweek disco cover that Frank Rosenthal displays for the camera, Geri Rosenthal wrote to her daughter that he came home drunk the previous night, April 4, and choked her into unconsciousness. Geri Rosenthal ended up with a cracked rib, two black eyes and bruises all over her body, she told her daughter in the letter. Presumably the beating took place only days after the show was filmed.
Soon, that tumultuous part of Las Vegas’ history would end without any glamorous high notes, to be immortalized later by the book and movie.
In 1986, Spilotro and his brother were beaten to death in the basement of a home near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and buried south of there in an Indiana cornfield, one on top of the other in their underwear. They were killed for bringing too much attention to the mob’s lucrative but illegal operations in Nevada.
As for the Rosenthals, they split up several years before the Spilotro brothers were murdered and, separately, faced bleak moments of their own before dying on different coasts.
In 1982, Frank Rosenthal was injured when his car exploded in the parking lot of a Tony Roma’s restaurant on East Sahara Avenue near the Las Vegas Strip. The incident has never been solved, though some in law enforcement suspect Spilotro was responsible. Rosenthal left Las Vegas not long after the bombing, ultimately moving to Florida, where he died of a heart attack in 2009 at age 79.
About a month after the car bombing, on Nov. 6, 1982 — and only three years after the Jubilation disco-dance episode now on YouTube — Geri Rosenthal, with bruises on her legs and liquor, drugs and tranquilizers in her system, stumbled into the lobby of the Beverly Sunset Motel, 8775 Sunset Blvd., at 4:35 a.m. and collapsed. She died three days later at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. She was 46 years old.
Larry Henry’s YouTube channel includes videos he shot of mob sites in Las Vegas, the apartment building in Santa Monica, California, where Whitey Bulger was arrested, and the remote Arkansas airport where Barry Seal transported drugs into the U.S for the Medellin Cartel. Subscribe HERE.
Comments or questions are welcome.
Frank ’Lefty’ Rosenthal was a mob associate who operated Las Vegas casinos on behalf of the Chicago Outfit bosses in the 1970s. Rosenthal was made famous through actor Robert De Niro’s character, Sam ’Ace’ Rothstein, in the 1995 movie Casino. The movie told the story of Rosenthal’s close association with Outfit member Anthony ’Ant’ Spilotro (represented by Joe Pesci’s character Nicholas ’Nicky’ Santoro) and their rise together in the Chicago underworld.
Rosenthal and Spilotro both were born in Chicago and grew up around local mobsters. Rosenthal gradually made a name for himself as a sports handicapper and gambling expert. Spilotro came to the attention of Outfit leaders by handling the rough stuff as an enforcer. Both men eventually were assigned to oversee Outfit financial interests in Las Vegas casinos. Rosenthal used his gambling expertise to increase casino revenues and maximize the illegal skim - the siphoning off of a portion of casino revenues before they could be counted and taxed. And Spilotro was the mob heavy in the shadows who kept everyone in line.
The arrangement worked well at first. The casinos operated by Rosenthal became the talk of the town. And Spilotro was able to dominate organized crime in the city. But, over time, friction developed between the two men. Spilotro grew resentful of Rosenthal’s success and high profile in Las Vegas. And Rosenthal became angry with Spilotro for sleeping with Rosenthal’s wife and for attracting unnecessary law enforcement scrutiny to their criminal activities. A dispute with the Nevada Gaming Commission eventually forced Rosenthal out of Las Vegas and the casino business.
Nevada exclusion listentry for Rosenthal
The house of cards would all come down in the 1980s when Outfit leaders were convicted of skimming profits from casinos and sentenced to long prison terms. They dealt with Spilotro by killing him and his brother.
After Rosenthal died in 2008, it was reported that he had been a confidential informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation going back decades. Operating under the codename ’Achilles,’ Rosenthal fed the FBI information that was used to make ’a lot of organized crime and skimming cases.’ [1]
The full extent of Rosenthal’s cooperation has remained a mystery, but newly released FBI documents show for the first time some of the information he shared with federal agents.
According to the FBI, Rosenthal supplied Intel about many high-profile mob murders, including those of former Outfit boss Samuel Giancana and legendary mobster Johnny Roselli. And he helped law enforcement crack the murder of seven burglars tied to the robbery of Outfit boss Anthony Accardo’s residence.Murder of Roselli
Johnny Roselli was a longtime La Cosa Nostra member with connections to the Los Angeles Crime Family and the Chicago Outfit going back to the 1930s. He led the mob’s infiltration of Hollywood studios in the 1940s, and he supervised the mob’s interests in Las Vegas in the 1950s. His life took an unexpected turn in the 1960s, when he conspired with the Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The available FBI reports don’t indicate if Rosenthal knew Roselli personally, but it seems likely their paths would have crossed in Las Vegas, Chicago or Florida at some point over the years.
By the 1970s, Roselli had fallen on hard times and was borrowing money from his criminal associates to get by. His loose lips were also making his mob superiors uneasy. Testimony he had given before a grand jury investigating mob influence in Las Vegas was used to haul Outfit bosses Paul Ricca and Anthony Accardo into court. [2] And he testified for two hours before the United States Congress about the Mafia’s role in the CIA-backed plots against Castro.
Roselli was found murdered on August 9, 1976, floating in a barrel in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami. He had been stabbed multiple times and strangled with a rope.
Detroit Free Press, March 1977.
According to Rosenthal, Roselli was killed on orders of Outfit top boss Anthony Accardo. [3]
Rosenthal said Roselli had become a ’public source of embarrassment to the LCN,’ The murder was allegedly committed by Outfit hitman Frank Schweihs and LCN member Vincent Inserro and two other unidentified individuals. Inserro was Anthony Spilotro’s old mentor in the Outfit.
Two days before the murder, Rosenthal said that Outfit boss Joseph Aiuppa called Schweihs from a public telephone booth in the Chicago-area ’to discuss the Roselli murder.’ Rosenthal wasn’t able to provide additional information about the murder.
Schweihs was considered a prime suspect in Roselli’s murder from the start. Originally from Chicago, he had a long criminal record and had acquired a reputation as an Outfit hitman. He was a resident of Florida for some time and had been arrested there a year before Roselli’s murder for attempting to rob a bank. At the time of his arrest in the bank heist, Schweihs was driving a paint truck. This corresponded to ’physical evidence’ left later at Roselli’s murder scene. According to the FBI, Roselli’s killers ’may have had access to automotive related business.’
Over the years, the FBI received numerous tips from underworld informants about Roselli’s murder but none of them led to an arrest. The murder has never been officially solved.The Blazers
In the 1970s, the Outfit compartmentalized their enforcement arm under a group called the ’Blazers.’ The hit squad was headed up by Charles Nicoletti and included hitmen Frank Schweihs, Joseph Lombardo and the Spilotro brothers. [17] These men were responsible for a good percentage of the murders committed by the Outfit during that period.Other mob murders
Frank Rosenthal identified alleged killers (and the motives in some cases) in the following mob murders:Edward BuccieriKilled May 12, 1975, in Las Vegas, Nevada, shot five times in the head in the parking lot of Caesar’s Palace casino.Buccieri was pressuring casino owner Allen Glick for money. According to Rosenthal, the killing was carried out by Anthony Spilotro, Joey Hansen and Paul Schiro. While Rosenthal told the FBI that Buccieri was targeted at the request of Glick, Glick was never charged with the crime. [4] Hansen from California and Schiro from Arizona were members of Spilotro’s crew. They grew up together in Chicago.August ManiaciKilled September 11, 1975, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shot next to his automobile outside his residence.Maniaci was a member of the Milwaukee Crime Family. Rosenthal said the hit was ordered by Milwaukee boss Frank Balistrieri, although he didn’t give a motive. Another FBI witness said Maniaci had argued with Balistrieri and his underboss Steve DiSalvo in the days prior to the shooting. Maniaci had been a longtime FBI informant, but there is no evidence that played a part in his death. He was killed by a gun purchased from the same gun store at the same time as the gun used to kill former Outfit boss Samuel Giancana. [5] [6]Tamara RandKilled November 9, 1975, in San Diego, California, shot five times in the head at home.Rand was seeking an ownership stake in Allen Glick’s casino holdings. According to Rosenthal, the hit was committed by Outfit hitman Harry Aleman and an unidentified individual known only as ’Corky’. [7] Rosenthal told the FBI the murder was carried out at the behest of Glick, but no charges related to this crime were ever filed against Glick. [8] Aleman was a suspect in many other murders in the 1970s. He was sentenced in 1997 to more than a hundred years in prison following conviction for a 1972 shotgun killing of a union official. He died in prison in 2010.Samuel GiancanaKilled June 19, 1975, in Oak Park, Illinois, shot seven times in the head.According to information provided to the FBI by Rosenthal, Joseph Aiuppa (mistakenly called ’Frank’ in this report), James Torello, Joseph Lombardo and Joseph Amato were ’responsible’ for the murder. Rosenthal didn’t say if the men were actually present at the murder, but that seems unlikely given Aiuppa’s age and prominence. It is probable that top boss Anthony Accardo would have had to sign off on the murder.Charles NicolettiKilled March 29, 1977, in Northlake, Illinois, shot three times in the back of the head while sitting in his automobile.Rosenthal didn’t have solid information about this hit but said he ’feels’ it was likely committed by Harry Aleman. This suggests the hit was sanctioned by the Outfit. [9]Raymond RyanKilled October 19, 1977, in Evansville Indiana, bomb detonated as he entered his automobile.Ryan was a businessman who had testified against Outfit member Marshall Caifano in an extortion case. According to Rosenthal, the hit was carried out by Frank Schweihs on orders of Joseph Aiuppa. [10]BurgmursKilled January, 1978, to April, 1978, in Chicago, Illinois, area.In the Burgmurs case, the Outfit eliminated seven burglars connected to the robbery of Anthony Accardo’s residence. [11] Rosenthal said the killings were ordered by Accardo. He said the hits were ’organized’ by Joseph Aiuppa’s former chauffeur, Gerry Carusiello. Rosenthal’s tip appears to have led investigators to zero in on Carusiello. Telephone records later established that Carusiello had called each murder victim multiple times in the days leading up to their deaths.Significance of codename ’Achilles’?
In Greek mythology, Achilles was a great warrior who fought in the Trojan War. Achilles died after an arrow pierced his heel, the only vulnerable part of his godlike body. Was the codename a wordplay on Rosenthal’s potential ability to take down the invincible Chicago Outfit like Achilles took down Troy’s greatest warrior, Hector?Rosenthal’s information
The information supplied by Rosenthal about the murders generally corresponded with information law enforcement developed from other sources. Rosenthal told the FBI that his information about the murders was second hand. [12] According to the FBI, the information was ’made accessible to him’ because of his close association with Outfit leaders. [13] That doesn’t mean Rosenthal’s information is accurate in all aspects, but it provides a high degree of credibility.
According to the FBI, Rosenthal’s information was ’singular in nature and its disclosure outside the FBI would, therefore, seriously jeopardize the safety of [Rosenthal].’ [14] There is no doubt he would have been killed had word leaked out about his cooperation.Frank Rosenthal Interview Casino
The only significant claim made by Rosenthal that raises a red flag is pinning the murder of Giancana on Joseph Aiuppa, James Torello, Joseph Lombardo and Joseph Amato.
No one was ever charged in Giancana’s death but it has been generally accepted by law enforcement that the prime suspect was Dominic ’Butch’ Blasi. He was Giancana’s closest companion and the last person to see him alive.
How does that square with what Rosenthal said?
A careful reading indicates Rosenthal only claimed that Aiuppa and the others were ’responsible’ for Giancana’s death. That could be interpreted to mean they were the driving force behind the murder, but Blasi, or someone else, actually pulled the trigger.
It’s not clear exactly what pushed Rosenthal into the arms of the FBI, but by 1978 at least, Rosenthal was talking. [15] His contacting agent, at one point anyway, was Special Agent Zachary Shelton from the FBI’s Chicago office. [16] Rosenthal’s relationship with formerly close underworld associate Anthony Spilotro had soured bitterly by this point, so that likely had something to do with his actions. Rosenthal probably looked at the odds before him and decided it was his best play.
Notes
Thanks to Richard Warner for referring the writer to the Morrison article linking Frank Rosenthal and ’Achilles.’
1 Morrison, Jane Anne. ’Lefty’ Rosenthal was an FBI snitch,’Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct. 30, 2008. This was the first time Rosenthal’s cooperation was publicly exposed and his codename was revealed.
2 FBI, John Roselli, Los Angeles Office, Nov. 27, 1970, NARA Record No. 124-10289-10008.
3 FBI, Roskil, Miami Office, June 17, 1978, NARA Record No. 124-10356-10272; FBI, Roskil, Miami Office, Dec. 15, 1979, NARA Record No. 124-10356-10216.
4 FBI, Roskil Gangmurs, Miami Office, Feb. 27, 1979, NARA Record No. 124-10356-10302; Nicholas Pi
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