Frank cullotta biography
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Frank Cullotta
American mobster (1938–2020)
Frank Cullotta | |
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Cullotta in 2012 | |
| Born | Frank John Cullotta (1938-12-14)December 14, 1938 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | August 20, 2020(2020-08-20) (aged 81) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Occupations | |
| Allegiance | Chicago Outfit |
| Conviction(s) | Burglary (1968) |
| Criminal penalty | Eight years' imprisonment (1968) Eight years' imprisonment (1982) |
Frank John Cullotta (December 14, 1938 – August 20, 2020) was an American mobster in the Chicago Outfit and a member of the Hole in the Wall Gang burglary ring in Las Vegas with friend and mobster Tony Spilotro. After his arrest in 1982, he became a government witness and entered the witness protection program. Cullotta later became an author and a tour guide.
He died on August 20, 2020, from complications related to COVID-19.
Early years
[edit]Cullotta was born on December 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, to Josephine Montedore and Joseph Raymond Cullot
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Frank Cullotta, Chicago Outfit associate who led the Hole in the Wall Gang burglary ring in Las Vegas, has died
Frank Cullotta, leader of the infamous Hole in the Wall Gang burglary ring in Las Vegas, died early Thursday in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 81.
Cullotta died from complications of COVID-19.
In his criminal heyday working for the Chicago Outfit’s Las Vegas overseer, Tony Spilotro, Cullotta was responsible for at least two murders, as well as hundreds of burglaries and other crimes. The Hole in the Wall Gang got its name from its technique of avoiding security systems by entering homes and businesses through a wall or roof instead of through monitored doors and windows.
Cullotta’s burglary spree came to an abrupt end on July 4, 1981, when he and his crew were busted in the act of entering Bertha’s department store on East Sahara Avenue. The FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department knew about the planned burglary thanks to an informant within the ranks of
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Frank Cullotta (14 December 1938 – 20 August 2020) was a Chicago Outfit enforcer and a close friend of Anthony Spilotro. In 1986, Cullotta had Spilotro whacked after his bosses had decided that they would no längre put up with Spilotro's loose-cannon behavior.
Biography[]
Frank Cullotta was born in Chicago, Illinois on 14 månad 1938, and he began his criminal career as a teenager, graduating from petty theft to burglary, armed robbery, arson, and murder. He became an enforcer for the Chicago Outfit of the American Mafia and became best friends with Anthony Spilotro. In 1979, the two of them killed the informant Jerry Lisner, and they founded the "Hole in the Wall Gang" that same year. This gang committed many high-end burglaries and made large amounts of money, but most of them were arrested during a 4 July 1981 burglary. In 1982, he began to work with the FBI after discovering that Spilotro was planning a hit on him, and Tony Spilotro and his brother Michael Spilotro were