Then I passed out.". 0 cemeteries found in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, USA. The Crab Sleeps With the Fishes But it wasnt long before vendors taking the $10 bills to the banks to be deposited found out they were counterfeit. This is a carousel with slides. Thu, Apr 8, 1999 at 4:00 am. "Approximately when did this occur? A major drug offender who went to prison for a 1996 mob assassination has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for cocaine and heroin possession and trafficking and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. Word had spread quickly that the jury had reached a verdict in the racketeering trials of Bernard Altshuler, Jeff Riddle, and Lavance Turnage. I said to myself These S.O.B.s will pay for this. I shook hands with Danny, and started keeping records for three or four years.. to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to the Strollo family. Judge O'Malley said she wasn't the one he needed to apologize to. Everyone in Strollos gang, including some well-known characters like Frankie Lentine, got in the act. Nearly fifty years later, "Big Ange" entered the witness protection program and became the highest-ranking mafioso to defect. All Rights Reserved. During that trial, Traficant's friend Charles O'Nesti testified he delivered envelopes of cash to Traficant from Prato. & lt;a href=mailto:[email protected] & gt;[email protected] & lt;/a & gt; By using this site, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. All contact info about Lenine Strollo, 91 from Canfield, Ohio - address, e-mail, phone, public records, etc at Vericora FOR FREE Most assumed "Big Ange" Lonardo would take over, but underboss Milton "Maishe" Rockman insisted it was Scalish's dying wish that Licavoli be named boss of Cleveland's La Cosa Nostra. O'Nesti and Rich pleaded guilty to conspiracy in March 1998. Please reset your password. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. "Lenny will be on a beach with a couple of blondes and a bag full of hundred-dollar bills, waving, saying, 'No, Bernie, I'll never give you up,'" Milano said with a grin on his face, clearly amused by the image. Dees family wants to thank the dedicated staff of Sunrise Assisted Living in Poland as well as the caring angels and staff at Hospice of the Valley for their love and dedication throughout these last months. The quarter-mile, one-way street, just east of downtown, has almost as many cars on blocks as it has houses, and certainly more dogs than people. Strollo also fingered Riddle and Turnage, black street thugs Strollo had used to recruit drug dealers to gamble in the various card and dice games controlled by the Youngstown mob. It was the last time Moceri was ever seen. ", Gains admits he felt abandoned by all but his closest friends. Biondillo went to back up, but by then another car, driven by Warren Willis, had pulled behind him, boxing him in. There was no such window dressing in this case. Oops, something didn't work. Saying he was "overcome," the aging federal inmate said he apologized to his family. By 1998, Wilkins, Blair, and Harris had all pleaded guilty and agreed to testify about their roles in the shootings of Biondillo and Gains. The men were found guilty and sentenced to life without parole. But, like all businessmen, he had problems to deal with. When I got off parole I went back to Lenny. "[Strollo's mob] knew they were being watched," says Wooley, pointing out that, even after the 1995 Super Bowl raid, the mobsters continued their gambling and bribery and went ahead with the shootings of Biondillo and Gains. Strollo had his own gambling operations, most notably the All-American Club in Campbell, a run-down suburb east of Youngstown where every flagpole seems to have a Greek or Italian flag hanging underneath its American counterpart. Add to your scrapbook. Morford, in explaining the extent of Strollo's cooperation to Judge O'Malley, said whatever information he provided was "like money in the bank." Lenny was born April 21, 1931 in Youngstown, the son of the late. Strollo pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax charges . When his stepson was charged with a DUI, Strollo said he took care of Judge Martin Emrich by having landscaping work done at his house. Hit and Miss For nearly eight hours over two days, Lenny Strollo took the stand in the storied courthouse and gave a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of organized crime in northern Ohio. Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the prison time Monday on George Wilkins III, 41, of McClure Street . You mean that politician is likely going to be indicted on corruption charges by the FBI? Sensing the Cleveland mob had larger problems to deal with, the Pittsburgh family began encroaching on its turf in Youngstown, leading to a four-year feud that killed ten people. "When [the Mafia] ran the gambling for the working-class people in Youngstown, they made enormous amounts of money," Jay Milano says. After the trial, one longtime Strollo associate finally said what nearly every observer noticed, but virtually no one was willing to mention publicly. She enjoyed crocheting, cooking and baking for her family and friends and made the best Biscotti for everyone. He took in the jury's verdict with a smirk, then struck out in the only way he could. Policy dropped the former University of Pittsburgh football star as a client, so Traficant--who changed his name early in life from Traficante--acted as his own attorney. But when Gains refused overtures from his people, Strollo had a problem on his hands. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) - Dante Strollo, brother of notorious Youngstown mob boss Lenny Strollo, died on Tuesday. It was cold and rainy when Gains left his office at 8 p.m. on December 23. Unlike Scalish, the white-haired, cane-carrying Prato also named a successor before he died--Naples, now answering only to Pittsburgh. "It was a tough time for me. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. News By the time Strollo was finished, the consensus was that Altshuler, Riddle, and Turnage had about as much chance of being acquitted as Biondillo did of surviving the shotgun slugs and pellets that were pumped into his body: None. Strollo Dominic M & is a resident of Youngstown. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. The inner-city drug dealers. His Euclid-based Miray Fund Raising Inc., prosecutors say, was actually a front for Strollo, Garono, and Altshuler to skim money from casino nights sponsored by nonprofit groups. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Rivals, Drugs, and Money . A system error has occurred. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Strollo also provided information that led to the convictions of former U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., ex-Mahoning County Judge Martin W. Emrich, ex-Youngstown Municipal Judge Andrew Polovischak Jr., three men involved in the Biondillo hit, ex-Mahoning County Sheriff Phil Chance, ex-Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena and others. Just before Altshuler, Riddle, and Turnage were marched out in their orange prison jumpsuits for sentencing, Milano sat on a court bench in an expensive gray suit, head cocked and leg resting on his knee, chatting with reporters. Strollo was a member of the Pittsburgh branch of La Cosa Nostra. Garono, who once said a good way to get gamblers to pay up is by putting them in a bag and beating them with a baseball bat, agreed to racketeering charges four months later. With so many public officials on the take, short-circuiting standard legal procedures was relatively easy. That changed in the early 1980s, when a war left the Cleveland mob decimated and Pittsburgh dominant. It absolutely disgusts me.". Eventually the repairmen taught the young Strollo how to fix the various slot, pinball, and bowling machines that were common in the shot-and-beer watering holes around town that catered to mill workers. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. "Jeff was very realistic from beginning to end.". From information like that, the FBI got a search warrant for Strollo's home, and, in January 1997, agents seized more than 40,000 pages of documents, including financial and gambling records. One of the victims was Charles Carabbia, whose older brother Ronnie palled around with Edward DeBartolo Jr. until Ronnie was convicted in 1979 of flipping the switch that killed Greene. "I don't think about it too much," he says, slapping his hand on his desk with a sense of finality. Prosecutors say that when it was closed in 1987, the All-American Club was the largest illegal casino in the country, generating $20 million a year for the Pittsburgh mob through card and dice games and video poker. YOUNGSTOWN One-time Valley mob boss Lenine "Lenny" Strollo, 90, the former organized crime boss who cooperated with the FBI and provided testimony on several Youngstown area killings and. The hotel earned a degree of infamy in 1928, when Cleveland police broke up what was the first known meeting of the Mafia's national bosses. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. His voice cracks, and his eyes get just the tiniest bit misty. The Cleveland mob got out of bootlegging when prohibition was repealed in 1933. Failed to delete memorial. Informants told the FBI that Strollo feared Naples would try to take over his gambling operations while he was away. And when the Mahoning Valley's economic base disappeared, so did the mob's clientele. to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to the Strollo family.- See more at: http://www.vindy.com/news/tributes/#sthash.TAL3ieam.dpuf, U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current, Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Read More. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. Opinion: Although he was facing a prison sentence, he refused to give up Strollo. Some speculate that Altshuler, at age 68, figured accepting a plea bargain and serving ten to fifteen years was the equivalent of a life sentence anyway. The evidence presented by federal attorneys during the case was overwhelming. That's from sixty years of being emboldened.". Turnage was once a promising high school football player, but he quit college after a year and returned to Youngstown, where he fell in with drug dealers like Antwan "Mo Man" Harris, Cleveland Blair, George Wilkins, and Warren Willis. A former mob boss who helped Youngstown earn the name "Crimetown U.S.A" has died at age 90. Sorry! Mob Hits Biography [ edit] Early years [ edit] Anthony Strollo was born in New York City, the son of Calabrian immigrants Leone and Giovannina Nigro. All the information available through this website is gathered from public records. She was always there to give a helping hand to anyone in need. Buffoons and incompetents succeed to important civic posts. "We really haven't had a democracy in this community in years. On August 9, 1982, Traficant was indicted for accepting bribes and filing a false income tax return. Mayfield Heights resident James Teresi pleaded guilty to running an illegal gambling business. While Scalish kept mob peace in Cleveland, Youngstown was at war. Strollo needn't have worried. It was complex and interesting," he says, noting his law firm had to build a new database just to keep track of all the evidence. But if Strollo's contempt for the feds was increasing, so was their infiltration of the Youngstown mob. As if bribes and campaign contributions weren't enough, one of Strollo's own lawyers, Gary Van Brocklin, was elected to that office in 1984. Youngstown was once among the biggest steel cities along with Cleveland and Pittsburg. She called Strollo a hypocrite for attending her father's funeral and shaking her hand. On the second count, for the attempted murder of Gains--guilty. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. With rumors circulating that Gains would hire FBI agent Bob Kroner--who had investigated the Traficant case in the 1980s and was responsible for busting the All-American Club--as a criminal investigator, discussions turned to ways to "eliminate Paul Gains." YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - Notorious Youngstown mob boss Lenny Strollo has died. Batcho allegedly went in for the kill, but his gun jammed. Local Mandy Jenkins, digital news pioneer who founded Mahoning Matters, dies at age 42. Lenine Strollo from Canfield, OH, age ~91. Based on the information gathered, the federal government launched a major investigation into government corruption and organized crime in the Valley. There was a time when the industrial corridor stretching from Cleveland through Youngstown to Pittsburgh produced more steel than most European nations. He said the government could have gone to trial and put Strollo in prison, but the same corrupt system would still exist. Case Files February 28, 2023, 11:33 AM. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? South Youngtown is just south of my hometown. How long after you were released from the halfway house?". You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. He said the expression that fit his situation is "too soon old, too late smart" and there was nothing more he could say than "I'm sorry." She was employed for many years as a production clerk for General Fireproofing Company. 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