Jack “Jackie the Kid” Giacalone the new boss of the Detroit mafia has officially appointed his cabinet, so to speak, recently filling slots for his underboss, street boss and consigliere posts according to sources.

There were no surprises in the selections.

Underworld sources claim that Giacalone, 62, tapped Anthony (Chicago Tony) La Piana his underboss, Peter (Specs) Tocco his street boss and Anthony (Tony Pal) Palazzolo his acting consigliere, with a promise to move him into the position in a permanent capacity soon.

Earlier this year, Giacalone was named only the fourth-ever Godfather in the 83-year history of the Midwest mafia family that his father and uncle helped build and protect dating back to the 1930s through the 2000s, replacing the retiring Giacomo (Black Jack) Tocco, 87, previously the longest-sitting mafia boss in the United States, leading the Family for the past three and a half decades.

“Jack Giacalone”

Tocco went into semi-retirement two years ago, easing Giacalone into the role of don, appointing him acting boss in 2012. Prior to the promotion, Jackie the Kid, the son of deceased underboss Vito (Billy Jack) Giacalone and nephew of Michigan mob icon Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, was the syndicate’s street boss for roughly 15 years. He took over for his uncle who died of cancer in 2001 while under a massive federal racketeering indictment he would never face in court after 40 years running the Family’s day-to-day affairs.

Informants tell local law enforcement that It’s been long known across the Motor City mob landscape that Jackie the Kid, Chicago Tony, Tony Pal and Specs Tocco represented the future hierarchy of the Family, a foursome of capos Black Jack hand-picked more than a decade ago.

La Piana, 71, is a protégé and nephew via marriage of Jack Tocco. Born and raised in Chicago, he married Michigan La Cosa Nostra royalty, wedding the daughter of capo and future underboss Vincent (Little Vince) Meli, in 1974 and moving to Detroit, after years in the Windy City learning the tricks of the gangland trade from mob heavyweights like, John (Johnny No Nose) Di Fronzo and Sam (Wings) Carlisi.

Although La Piana has been identified as a major Midwest mafia power broker in numerous federal government reports, U.S. congressional committee testimony and police intelligence logs over the last 30 years, he hasn’t faced criminal charges since he was a young mob wannabe on the Westside of Chicago in the late-1960s. Chicago Tony beat federal truck-hijacking charges out of Illinois at trial in 1968. He was called Jack Tocco’s “lieutenant for labor union affairs” at Tocco’s federal racketeering trial in 1998, however avoided ensnarement in the giant Operation GameTax bust himself.

Tony Pal oversees Detroit’s Downriver area and is in charge of the Family’s rackets in Canada. His last run-in with the law came in 1993 when he was arrested and served time for operating a money-laundering service for local underworld types looking to wash their criminal proceeds. FBI audio surveillance caught Palazzolo bragging to an undercover policemen from Canada that, “This is my city,” as he gazed out the window of a hotel suite at the Detroit skyline.

Palazollo, 73, had his name surface in the Jimmy Hoffa murder investigation, both at the time that it occurred in 1975 and last year, when deposed Detroit underboss Anthony (Tony Z) Zerilli pointed the FBI to a piece of property once-owned by Jack Tocco, his first-cousin, in suburban Oakland County and told investigators that he was informed by Tony Giacalone that Palazzolo bludgeoned Hoffa with a shovel and then buried him there alive. According to what

Giacalone filled Zerilli in on, Hoffa was lured to the property by then-capo Peter (Bozzi) Vitale, the Family’s longtime “Godfather of Greektown” (a popular entertainment district downtown) and Tony Pal’s mentor.

While Tocco’s underboss and the city’s undisputed porno king for the past 50 years, Joseph (Joe Hooks) Mirabile is retiring along with him, his consigliere Dominic (Uncle Dom) Bommarito is said to be staying on temporarily to help guide the transition of power. Uncle Dom is expected to step aside in the next year or two and pass the No. 3 spot on the Family totem pole to Palazollo.

Specs Tocco, Jack Tocco’s nephew, has been acting street boss since 2012 when Jackie the Kid Giacalone got bumped up to acting boss. Both Specs, (sometimes also referred to by his childhood nickname, “Blackie”) and Jackie the Kid were indicted on federal racketeering and gambling charges in 2006, the lead defendants in a case which saw Tocco, 66, convicted and hit with prison time (2 and a half years) and Giacalone acquitted at trial.

Giacalone, Specs Tocco and La Piana are alleged to have all been “made” together in a February 1986 induction ceremony and according to informants and FBI documents, “made their bones” alongside each other. All three are considered suspects in the 1984 murder of labor leader Ralph Proctor, a onetime Hoffa ally, and Giacalone and Tocco, are suspects in the 1985 slayings of Detroit underworld figures Peter (Fast Pete) Cavataio and Harold (Harry Mack) Macairz.

The Family’s new brass keeps the balance between the syndicates’ street and boardroom groups that has existed ever since Jack Tocco took power in the
1970s, with Giacalone, like his father an uncle before him, representing the blue-collar faction and La Piana, the white-collar faction.

Retired federal prosecutor and Detroit mob nemesis Keith Corbett compares the situation to a successfully-implemented “Castellano-Gotti” alliance, referencing the power split in New York’s Gambino Family during the 1980s where roughneck John Gotti seized control by assassinating the more refined, business-oriented Paul Castellano.

“Jack Tocco was always more akin to Castellano and the Giacalones more like Gotti and unlike what happened in New York they always made it work, so I see no reason why this new arrangement, which is similar, but not an exact replica, won’t work as well,” he said. “Now, it’s just reversed with whose No. 1 and whose No. 2. In the tradition of his family, Jackie is more Gotti and La Piana, who was brought up under Tocco, is more Castellano. I’m pretty sure just like with Jack Tocco, Tony La Piana is fine being in the background and having a Giacalone out in front taking most of the exposure.”

The Giacalone brothers in tandem did significant more prison time and faced numerous more indictments in their gangland careers than Jack Tocco and his brother and top aide Anthony (Tony T) Tocco (died in 2012) – well over 25 years locked up combined for the Giacalones against a paltry two for the Toccos.

Article courtesy of Scott M. Burnstein Author of Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit (Images of America) and other great mafia titles.
 

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Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco the longtime boss of the Detroit Mafia passed away of natural causes in an unexpected bit of mafia news.

Tocco took power of the mob in Detroit back in 1979 and was the longest tenured mafia boss in the country. He was known as a very low key old school style boss who was more intelligent and business savvy then he was violent. Tocco was born into the mob with his dad William “Black Bill” Tocco being one of the founding fathers of the crime family. Black Jack operated behind the scenes and was able to avoid many of the pitfalls of a mafia boss staying out of jail for the majority of his career, except for a 1998 conviction on racketeering charges resulting in an 11-month stay in prison.

Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco

Tocco was long considered a suspect in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa and then was directly implicated in his disappearance by former Detroit Mafia underboss and his first cousin Anthony “Tony Z” Zerilli. Acting on information supplied by Zerilli the FBI dug up plots of farmland once owned by Tocco back in 2013 hoping to recover Hoffa’s remains.
Zerilli claimed that mob underlings informed him that Hoffa was taken out to the property beaten to death with a shovel and buried there. Tony Z was also convicted in 1998 along with Tocco and the two had a falling out which eventually led to him cooperating with the FBI in 2012 leading to the search in 2013. But the dig came up empty and no remains of Hoffa were discovered.

Jack Tocco was one of the last remaining links to the mafia of old the Golden Era or the American Mafia of the 60’s through the early 80’s. The Detroit Mafia has just recently began moving into a new era with new leadership but Giacomo was truly one of the last Godfathers.

For more information on the history of the Mafia in Detroit check out Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit (Images of America) and other great mafia titles by author Scott M. Burnstein.

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Anthony “Tony Pal” Palazzolo has been appointed as the new official consigliere of the Detroit mafia.

Previous consigliere Dominic “Uncle Dom” Bommarito has stepped down into retirement after holding his post during the recent leadership transition. Newly named boss Jack “Jackie the Kid” Giacalone has now fully taken the reigns of the family and now has his full administration in place with Palazzo and Anthony “Chicago Tony” La Piana holding the rank of under boss.

This trio has been dubbed “the future big 3” by Detroit mob family administrators over the past few years according to Motor city mob expert Scott Burnstein who broke story of new consigliere in his gangster report column. A long time Detroit mobster Palazzolo now 74 has overseen the family interest in Canada and in the city’s downriver area. He has roots in the mafia as his father was a lieutenant in the Michigan mob under Goivanni Priziola longtime consigliere.

Palazzolo was named as a mob captain back in 1998 taking over the crew once led by capo Peter Vitale who groomed him through the years. According to the FBI Palazzolo has been a very illusive guy and hard to keep tabs on through out the years. The Giacalone , La Piana, and Palazzolo trio will lead the Detroit mafia into the next generation after the passing last July of long time boss Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco the longest tenured mob boss in America.

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The Detroit mafia is now firmly under the control of a new regime lead by new official boss Jack “Jackie the Kid” Giacalone as its latest transition period winds down.

The Detroit mob is going to be downsizing from having 5 crews on the streets down to four at least temporarily according to sources from Scott Burnstein’s Gangster Report. The mafia in Detroit has had five capo’s running their respective crews since the early 1990’s but Giacalone wants to minimize exposure and feels the smaller things are safer according to reports.

“Jack Giacalone“

The crew formerly run by now underboss Anthony “Chicago Tony” La Piana is set to be dissolved with in the next year per sources. It is now being run by acting co-capo’s Antonio “Toto” Ruggirello and Antonio “Tony the Exterminator” Ruggirello who are ready to retire with Chicago Tony already semi-retired and in an administration position. Once the Ruggirello boys retire the transition will be to dissolve the crew all together.

The mob in Detroit has been one of the more stable and low key mafia families for years and after the 2014 installation of new boss Giacalone and underboss La Piana things should remain that way. Both Jackie the Kid and Chicago Tony were groomed to take the lead running the family in an “acting” capacity for a couple of years before they were officially installed into the hierarchy by deceased former boss Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco. Recent mafia news out of The Motor City indicates the transition has been smooth.

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Anthony “Tony Z” Zerilli the former underboss and acting boss of the Detroit Mafia passed away of natural causes in Florida at the age of 87.

He was the son of Joseph “Joe Uno” Zerilli himself a former Detroit mob godfather and the son-in-law of one-time New York mafia don Joe Profaci. He was one of the last of the old guard that controlled the mafia in Detroit for years and is one of many passing’s in the organization in last couple years.

“Tony Zerilli“

Zerilli was indicted back in 1996 along with then boss Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco and the rest of the administration in a massive racketeering case. Upon his release from prison in 2008 Zerilli was “shelved” or demoted and revealed of his position in the Detroit mob by Tocco blaming Zerilli for the bust. The evidence gathered by the feds came from a bug located in the car of one of Zerilli’s crew.

In 2012 Zerilli decided to talk to the feds giving them information about the possible burial ground of Jimmy Hoffa and the alleged story of his murder. He claimed Hoffa was killed by Detroit mob members and buried on land once owned by Tocco and his brother, dropping a dime on them both. He claimed he was told about the hit on Hoffa by former mafia street boss Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone the man Hoffa was supposed to be meeting for lunch the day he disappeared. After an extensive search of the property no body was recovered.

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Detroit mafia brothers Giuseppe “Joe the Hood” D’Anna and Girolamo “Mimmo” D’Anna are finally set to begin their racketeering and extortion trial in October.

The Detroit mob duo was indicted by the feds back in 2013 but was able to delay the start of the trail through various legal motions and continuances. Guiseppe D’ Anna is a reputed capo for the mafia in Detroit heading up the Zip faction of the family while his brother Mimmo D’Anna is an alleged soldier.

“Girolamo D’Anna (front) and Giuseppe D’Anna (back)”

The brother were charged with attempted murder by the state for the 2011 near death beating of Pietro Ventilmiglia a rival business owner. Ventilmiglia owned Nonna’s Italian Kitchen a restaurant which sat across from Tirami Su Ristorante the headquarters of Joe the Hood. After rebuffing shake down attempts and warning to shut down from the mafia brothers Ventilmiglia was beaten with wooden baseball bats inside his restaurant in front of onlookers.

The state trial ended with plea deals and the mob duo getting sentences of less then three months each in prison and some home confinement. The feds then decided to hit them with racketeering and extortion charges and now they each face up to 20 years in prison. The brothers are first cousins of Salvatore D’Anna a mob boss in Sicily and nephews of now deceased Detroit mafia capo Anthony “Tony Cars” D’Anna.

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Girolamo “Mimmo” D’Anna and Giuseppe “Joe the Hood” D’Anna alleged members of the Detroit mafia have agreed to a plea deal and are headed to prison. The Sicilian-born

The Sicilian-born Detroit mob brothers agreed to plead guilty in their racketeering case which included the beating of a rival restaurant owner they were attempting to shake down. According to reports, Joe D’Anna is a captain of an eastside crew in the Cosa Nostra family and could do from three to five years behind bars while his brother Mimmo D’Anna is looking at a likely sentence of no more than three years.

“Mimmo and Joe D’Anna”

The brothers were convicted of the 2011 assault in a state case about five years ago but were issued a very controversial plea and each served only four years in county jail and some home confinement. The feds were not satisfied with the state’s punishment and later dropped a RICO case against the mafia duo in 2013. According to the feds, Joe D’Anna brutally attacked fellow restaurant owner Pietro Ventimiglia with a baseball bat. The restaurant owners place named Nonna’s Italian Kitchen was located across the street from a restaurant owned by the D’Anna brothers and were trying to get him to pay a street tax for over two years.

Joe beats the man leaving him with cracked ribs, cracked skull, and other broken bones while his brother Mimmo stood watch at the door according to court documents. As he hit the man in the face, head, and body threatening to kill him and his family back in Italy if he didn’t pay up, he screamed at the man “Don’t you know who I am?.” The brothers are nephews of former Detroit mafia capo Anthony “Tony Cars” D’Anna and were close to former Detroit mob boss Giacomo (Black Jack) Tocco. Black Jack passed away in 2014 but according to Scott Burnstein and his Gangsterreport one of his last acts as boss of the mafia in Detroit was to promote Joe D’Anna to captain.

UPDATE:

A correction to the previous report as the charges against Girolamo (Mimmo) D’Anna have been dismissed as part of the plea deal reached by his brother. So only one of the D’Anna brother will head off to prison.

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The Detroit mafia lost one of its former capos with the recent passing of Frank “Frankie the Bomb” Bommarito.

The 87-year-old mobster was hospitalized with due to symptoms of heart and kidney failure before passing away. Bommarito was once the right-hand man of now-deceased mob leader Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone and for years acted as a liaison between the Detroit mob and the cities biker gangs according to the feds. He was bumped up to captain back in 2004 and served in that capacity until he was demoted and partially shelved in 2012 by new boss Jack “Jackie the Kid” Giacalone according to sources from Scott Burnstein and his gangsterreport.

“Frank Bommarito”

Frankie the bombs long history in the mafia included being captured by FBI surveillance in 1979 transporting Giacalone faction members to the inauguration ceremony of former boss Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco. Bommarito also had his share of run-ins with the law during his illustrious career in Cosa Nostra. He was indicted back in 1985 for taking out a murder contract or a mob associate and did a five-year stretch. He has also long been a suspect in the 1985 mafia murder of Detroit mob soldier Peter Cavataio. He was implicated along with Jackie Giacalone for the hit by mob turncoat John Pree but was cleared after Pree recanted his testimony in front of a grand jury.

Bommarito may have been one of the last remaining people with information about the infamous 1975 disappearance of Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa according to some in law enforcement. According to the feds, some believe that Frank and his brother along with Anthony Giacalone organized the details of the mob hit on Hoffa. The bomb’s close association to the Giacalone’s and being a top lieutenant have fueled speculation that he could have been used in the murder of Hoffa or perhaps the disposal of the body. But as is with many other aspects of the Hoffa case the speculation of Frankie the bombs involvement is likely to remain just that.

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Detroit mafia leader Anthony Palazzolo recently passed away of natural causes according to reports.

The 78-year-old mobster was known to be low key and elusive during his long career in the mafia. He served as a captain in the Cosa Nostra family for years before getting bumped up to consigliere approximately five years ago. He was one of the last people alive to be linked to the murder of legendary Teamsters labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa. It was long believed that Hoffa had used his ties to organized crime to take over as President of the powerful union and it was those same ties which ultimately lead to his 1975 disappearance and death.

“Anthony Palazzolo”

Hoffa’s insistence on taking back control of the union after his release from prison didn’t fall in line with what the mafia wanted. He disappeared while heading to a lunch meeting with Detroit mafia street boss Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone and was never seen again. Palazzolo’s name popped up early on in the Hoffa investigation according to the feds. At the time he was still young and trying to make his way up the ranks to be part of something that big it showed that he was a real up and comer.

Former Detroit mob underboss turned informant Tony Zerilli fingered Palazzolo as a member of the hit team that took out Hoffa. According to Zerilli, he was the driving the car that picked up Hoffa from the Bloomfield Township, Michigan restaurant parking lot and was one of the men who killed him. Then in the 1990’s while in control of Detroit’s Canadian rackets Tony Pal was caught talking about the Hoffa hit on a wiretap. According to court records during the investigation a Canadian undercover cop working with the feds got him to admit his role in the Hoffa murder saying that he disposed of the body by running it through a sausage auger at the Eastern Market headquarters of the Detroit Sausage Company.

That investigation ended up with Palazzolo getting sentenced to five years behind bars on money laundering and drug charges. But he was not charged with anything having to do with Hoffa’s disappearance. The mafia in Detroit has always been a small and low key family and they remain that way today. Veteran mobster Jack “Jackie the Kid” Giacalone now heads the family with Anthony “Chicago Tony” La Piana reportedly serving as underboss. It is unclear as to who is next in line to fill the now vacant consigliere position.

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The Detroit Mafia also referred to as the Tocco-Zerilli crime family or the Detroit Partnership has a long and interesting history dating back to the 1900s.

The mid-west organization was recognized by The Commission and became one of the 24 original Mafia families that comprised Cosa Nostra in America. The mafia in Detroit grew in power and influence over years under the guidance of top mob bosses that included Joe Zerilli and Giacomo “Jack” Tocco. The highly respected mob family maintained a very quiet and low key approach compared to some of the countries other families. That is until the disappearance of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa in 1975 pushed them into the headlines. Years of investigations would follow many of which included members of the Detroit mafia making them one of the most talked-about American Mafia families outside of New York. But times have definitely changed and now many wonder if the mob in Detroit has become a thing of the past.

The families long-held tradition of marrying off within its ranks has truly made it a family affair. This strategy has allowed the mafia in Detroit to avoid many of the pitfalls that have taken down other mob families across the country. Having so many members within the family related by blood made them extremely hard to penetrate. It has also allowed them to avoid costly internal wars and an infestation of mob rats at least for the most part.

The downside was that it limited the families ability to expand and grow. What was once a large organization consisting of more than 100 made men has reportedly dwindled down to approx 30 or fewer today. Over the past couple of decades, the family has lost the majority of its political influence and wide-ranging power. As we entered the 1990s questions of the families sustainability began to arise.

A large racketeering indictment in 1996 proved the organized crime family was still fully functional and actively controlling some traditional mafia rackets. Sixteen alleged members and associates of the Tocco-Zerilli crime family were indicted including aging boss Jack Tocco and underboss Tony Zerilli. The feds described the case as a stake to the heart of the Motor City Mafia. While that may have been a bit much it was a blow to the already diminishing organization.

A RICO indictment that centered around bookmaking, money laundering, and extortion landed in 2006. The indictment while not directly attributed to the local mafia family included the familiar names of Tocco and Giacalone. Many saw this as a sign that rumors of the mob families demise may have been a bit premature. But it remained clear that the changing times were having a negative effect on the once-mighty crime family as this was one of the last major cases to date involving multiple members of the organization.

Longtime boss Jack Tocco passed away back in 2014 followed by the death of Tony Zerilli in 2015. The family would lose other long term members over the past few years as well. It was time for the next generation to take the reigns of the Detroit Mafia. But many believed that this new generation were more businessmen then they were mobsters intent of moving the family away from their long-held mob rackets and into more legitimate businesses.

The mob family still maintains a functioning hierarchy according to some reports. It including current boss Jack (Jackie the Kid) Giacalone, underboss Anthony (Chicago Tony) La Piana, and street boss Peter (Specs) Tocco. Although some believe these ranks and positions have become more ceremonial than they are functional. Just how active is this new era of the Detroit Mafia when it comes to the families illegal enterprises?

Many mob enthusiasts and insiders point to the lack of indictments and legal cases brought against the organization over the last several years as a sign of the families inactivity. Would the feds have turned their backs on an active and functioning American Mafia family? It could be a clear indicator that the new regime isn’t as involved in illegal rackets as their predecessors were. The feds may no longer consider them as part of the American Mob landscape.

We still see cases at least to some extent being brought against other active mafia families outside of New York including New England, Philadelphia, and Chicago. But not everyone buys into the idea that the Detroit family is all but dead and gone. Many believe the family has adapted its methods of doing business utilizing its close ties to avoid any federal hiccups. They believe the family still maintains sway over the local area and still controls much of its illegal bookmaking, extortion, and loan sharking activities along with some of the drug trafficking.

The organization is clearly a shadow of its former self like many other families around the country but for many that doesn’t mean they are defunct. If the Motor City Mafia family hasn’t met its end just yet it may be trending toward doing so sooner than later. It’s hard to tell exactly where things stand in Detroit today but a real lack of mafia news out of the Motor City in recent years is hard to overlook. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

The debate will continue as to whether or not Detroit still has a functioning and established crime family. Even if the guys in Detroit still have a piece of long-running rackets like bookmaking and loansharking is it enough today for them to still be considered a legit and active family? What do you think? Feel free to comment below.

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