On April 28, 1928, a gang war started in San Francisco when bootlegger, Jerry Feri, San Francisco’s leading crime lord, was murdered in his apartment. His suspected murderer, Alfredo Scariso, was an accomplished bootlegger as well, and he too was murdered on December 19 of that year. His body was found with multiple gunshot wounds and dumped in the area of Fair Oaks. On December 23, Mario Filippi, a suspect behind the Scariso murder, was found shot to death. Frank Boca, another suspect in Scariso’s death, was found murdered in his car on July 30, 1929. The next murder was that of the so-called “Al Capone of the West”, Genaro Broccolo, who was found dead on October 30, 1932. The final murder was of Luigi Malvese. He had made a reputation as a hijacker, bootlegger, and gun running racketeer. He was shot down on May 18, 1932, while walking through an Italian neighborhood in the middle of the day.

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Louis A. Simon (1899-1976) was an well-known jewish bookmaker who ran a race wire service in Milwaukee. Louis was born on Sep 03, 1899 in ether Milwaukee or Romania. According to newspaper articles it stated that Simon was a colorful figure who operated the Badger News Service (A horse racing results sheet) in Milwaukee for more than 15 years until 1951. According to FBI files it stated that in the 1940s Milwaukee mafia boss Sam Ferrara was muscled into a share of Simon bookmaking operation. He then reach out to his connections in the Chicago Outfit because he had a race wire connections their and seemed to be in good status with them, but Chicago told him to cooperate with Ferrara.

During a 1954 hearing in Washington, D.C. internal Revenue Service agents claimed that Simon took bets totaling nearly $2 million in a Chicago gambling operation between 1947 and 1950. In 1956, Simon was fined $3,000 and given a three month suspended sentence for violation of federal gambling laws. He had been convicted of running a gambling operation in a Milwaukee hotel.

Due to his conviction led to what he described as an exile to Las Vegas. While living in Las Vegas Simon had became a floor manager at the Fremont Hotel for 20 years. On Dec 1976 at the age of 77 Simon died in a Las Vegas hospital. He was laid to rest at the Palm Desert Memorial in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. He was survived by his wife Helen.

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https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=95092&search=Louis_Abraham+Simon#relPageId=11&tab=page

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Milwaukee Sentinel Wednesday, Dec 29, 1976 Milwaukee, WI Page: 29

Lawrence Charles Rassano aka “Little Five” (1913-1975) was allegedly a member of the Chicago Outfit who operated in Cicero. Rassano was born on 25 Oct 1913 in Calabria, Italy or Potenza, Italy to parents Paulo Rassano and Rose Centomoni. It’s believed that he immigrated to the United States in 1914 with his mother. Lawrence was the chauffeur and bodyguard for Chicago Outfit boss, Joseph “The Doves” Aiuppa. Rassano ran a string of B-gril joints for Aiuppa and was friends with him for over 20 years.

Lawrence was married to a women named Louise Mangelli together they had two sons who names were, Robert, born July 16, 1943, and William, born May 9, 1947. His wife suffered a terminal illness of leukemia for two years and died July 27, 1959, at which time Robert was age 16 and William was 12. Mrs. Rassano was buried in the Chicago area. Following the death of his wife in 1959, Lawrence oldest son, Robert, married and resettled. Lawrence other son, William joined the United States armed forces in mid-1967. He was sent on active duty to Vietnam as a member of the 25th Infantry Division. While on a search and destroy mission near Saigon he was killed in ambush by enemy fire on March 2, 1968. His remains were returned to this country and he was given a military burial next to his deceased mother in Mount Carmel Cemetery.

In 1934 he was convicted of the offense of robbery and was sentenced to a prison term of from one year to life, but actually was required to serve only six months of that sentence. He was again convicted in 1952 of the crime of burglary and sentenced to five years probation and was never required to suffer imprisonment during such period of probation. In 1963-1964 was acquitted of bombing Dimitri’s restaurant in suburban Countryside, In 1968 Lawrence was facing a deportation order because of his criminal convictions.

Lawrence died on 10 Apr 1975 in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

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Lawrence Rassano v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 377 F.2d 971 (7th Cir. 1967): https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/276006/lawrence-rassano-v-immigration-and-naturalization-service/

Lawrence Rassano, Petitioner-appellant, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent-appellee, 492 F.2d 220 (7th Cir. 1974): https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/492/220/322007/