Interesting Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?...1871222193628&locale2=ms_MY&_rdrOn this day, November 15th, 1979, 2 Detroit mobsters, who were part of Jimmy Hoffa’s murder hit squad, Raffaele “Jimmy Q” Quasarano & Peter “Bozzi” Vitale, who were members of a commission controlling the Detroit crime syndicate, are indicted under the RICO Act, on charges including racketeering, extortion, mail & tax fraud, for shaking down a Wisconsin cheese company. According to multiple sources with intimidate knowledge of the Detroit underworld, the Hoffa hit was handled exclusively by Detroit’s Italian mafia, with no help from New York’s Genovese crime family, as many mafia folklore chatter has suggested, & Hoffa was actually strangled to death, by a 4-person hit-team, consisting of Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone, Salvatore “Swinging Sammy” Serra, “Bozzi”, & “Jimmy Q”, who have all since passed away, & wasn’t shot, as previously spread around by the underworld-fairytales. “Everybody has gotten it all wrong all these years, this was a garroting job & solely a Detroit rodeo, no guns, no Genovese Family,” said 1 Detroit mob insider. “The Detroit Outfit could kill with the best of them, we’re talking pro’s pros, 1-of-a-kind hitters. And this went down in our territory, Hoffa was our guy, he belonged to us. New York always deferred to Detroit in those situations. Why would anyone go out of town, to get this job done? That doesn’t make any sense.” the afternoon he disappeared Hoffa was on his way to a sitdown with Detroit mafia street boss Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone & New Jersey-stationed Genovese Family capo & east coast Teamster powerbroker, Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. The sitdown, Hoffa believed, was arranged by Giacalone, to settle a beef between himself & Tony Pro, that had been stirring-in-the-pot, since the 2 ex-buddies, & strong union powerhouses, were serving time together in federal prison, a year earlier. But the truth was, this was a setup. Tony Jack was Hoffa’s connection to organized crime in Detroit & was related to Tony Pro, by marriage. Both Giacalone & Provenzano never showed-up for the sitdown, instead they were busy establishing solid alibis, at their respective headquarters, Tony Jack hanging-out at the Southfield Athletic Club in Metro Detroit & Tony Pro playing a game of gin rummy, at his Teamsters Local 560 clubhouse in Union City, New Jersey.
Hoffa was last seen getting into, what authorities feel certain was Giacalone son, Joseph “Joey Jack” Giacalone’s maroon-colored Mercury Marquis, with 3 unidentified men, in the parking lot of the Red Fox, just minutes away from Tony Jack, who was showing-face at the trendy health club, owned by Giacalone crew member Leonard “Little Lenny” Schultz. Joey Giacalone isn’t suspected of being a participant in the conspiracy to kill Hoffa. Schultz was a Jewish organized crime associate & labor consultant who was also scheduled to be at the lunch meeting, but instead spent the afternoon with Tony Jack at the Southfield AC. The 3 men scooping Hoffa in the Red Fox parking lot, were Billy Giacalone, Tony Jack’s baby brother, fellow capo & future underboss, “Bozzi” Vitale, the Godfather of Greektown for the Motor City’s Italian mob, & Jimmy Q, the syndicate’s primary narcotics lieutenant. All 3 were reputed seasoned killers & friendly with Hoffa from their dealings with him, dating back decades.
Hoffa was escorted from the Red Fox, to a residence 2 miles north, owned by another longtime mobster, Carlo Licata, a house sitting on a hill at 680 W. Long Lake Road, & somewhere Hoffa was told he was being driven to meet Schultz, Tony Jack, & Tony Pro. Licata, the son of Los Angeles mafia boss Nick Licata, who had passed away from cancer in the months prior, & the brother-in-law to the Detroit mob’s, then-acting boss, Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco, wasn’t at home that afternoon, instructed “to gather his wife & kids & get lost.” “Swinging” Sammy Serra, nephew to then long-reigning don & Michigan mafia creator, Joseph “Joe Uno” Zerilli, waited for Hoffa to walk in the door of the Licata house, through the entrance from the garage & when he did, Serra jumped from out of the shadows & strangled him to death with an electrical cord. Serra has been dead since 1984. “Billy Jack, Jimmy Q, & Bozzi brought him to the slaughter at the house on the hill, that’s what we called Carlo Licata’s house, & Sammy Serra put him down, strangled him to death, within seconds of Jimmy entering the door leading from the garage,” the insider said. “He didn’t’ have his gun, he had his guard down, he didn’t stand a chance. Sammy was built like a tractor trailer, strong as an ox, even then in his 60s. We heard Billy held Jimmy’s legs at the end, he didn’t go quietly.”
Over the past decade, the Licata house has emerged as a possible kill spot in the Hoffa case. The Licata house theory was 1st made public in 2006, by a group of retired FBI agents, who worked the case in the 1980s & 90s, & jointly went to the media once they left the Bureau. The wooded estate, resting on the side of a 2-lane street in ritzy Bloomfield Township, was known by the FBI as a location that mob sitdowns occurred & a meeting place Hoffa & the Giacalone brothers had met several times before. Licata died, under suspicious circumstances, at the residence on the 6-year anniversary of the Hoffa hit, on the afternoon of July 30, 1981, & was officially ruled a suicide, as Licata was shot twice in the chest & died laying face up, with the weapon several feet away from him on top of a dresser, with no fingerprints on it.
Swinging Sammy was nicknamed for his skill using a baseball bat as an enforcement tool, in his early days in the Detroit underworld, as 1 of his uncles, Joe Zerilli’s chief strong arm. After Hoffa was garroted to death, his body was placed into the trunk of Joey Giacalone’s Mercury & transported for disposal, at Central Sanitation in nearby Hamtramck, Michigan. Joey Jack was a 24-year old aspiring wiseguy, in his dad’s crew at the time. Central Sanitation was a garbage collection & incineration company, co-owned by Bozzi Vitale & Jimmy Q, best friends & gangland running buddies for years, which burned to the ground in 1978. Many, including authorities, believe it was an arson-related fire, designed to eliminate any further trace of Hoffa’s remains. Hoffa, for all intents & purposes, had provided a “dummy” Teamsters local for the pair to run, as a front to traffic narcotics, per federal informant files from the 1960s. Hoffa dined with Zerilli, the aging don’s protégés, the Giacalone brothers, Vitale, Quasarano, & Bozzi’s older brother, Paul “The Pope” Vitale, in a backroom at Larco’s, a mobbed-up Italian Restaurant in Northwest Detroit, 3 days before the labor boss was killed, according to FBI surveillance logs.
Zerilli, 1 of the most revered mafia dons in American history, died of natural causes in late 1977, passing the reins of the crime family, he led for 41 years, to Black Jack Tocco, another nephew of his, who would lead the syndicate for the following 4 decades. Jack Tocco, the man the FBI thinks was in charge of arranging the details of Hoffa’s slaying, alongside the Giacalones, passed away from heart failure in July 2014. In the year before he died, Tocco’s name surfaced in the media regarding his possible involvement in the Hoffa hit, when the farm property he owned in 1975, was searched by the FBI for any sign of Hoffa’s body, based on a bullshit tip, provided by Tocco’s 1st cousin & former underboss, Anthony “Tony Z” Zerilli, Joe Uno’s son, who has since passed & was in prison at the time of Hoffa’s murder. Tony Z helped usher the fireplug of a labor chief, from a street-level organizer in Detroit, to the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the largest labor union in the world, & fell out with Tocco, in the years after their dual busts in the Operation Gametax case of the 1990s.
In Zerilli’s tale of events involving the Hoffa snatching & execution, 1 he insisted was told to him in confidence by Tony Giacalone, he points to Hoffa being kidnapped by Bozzi Vitale, Jimmy Quasarano, & current reputed Detroit mob consigliere, Anthony “Tony Pal” Palazzolo, Vitale’s then-driver & bodyguard, from the Red Fox parking lot & was beaten to death by Palazzolo, once they arrived at Tocco’s farm, in rural Oakland Township, Michigan. Vitale & Quasarano were convicted together of shaking down the Wisconsin cheese company in 1981. They were observed by FBI agents, visiting Genovese crime family higher-ups in New York City, in the days after Hoffa showed up missing.
The Vitale brothers assumed control as twin capos of Detroit’s Greektown neighborhood, in the late 1950s, upon the sudden heart attack suffered by Pietro “Machine Gun Pete” Corrado, the area’s overlord since Prohibition. The Vitale’s headquarters, the Corrado-owned Grecian Gardens restaurant, rested in the heart of Greektown, on Monroe Street. Greektown is downtown Detroit’s main entertainment district. Both his daughters marrying sons of “Machine Gun Pete” Corrado, Paul “The Pope” Vitale died in 1988. Pete “Bozzi” Vitale died in 1998.
Raffaele “Jimmy Q” Quasarano was the right-hand-man to Joe Zerilli’s consigliere, Giovanni “Papa John” Priziola, maintaining direct responsibility for Priziola’s vast-spanning international drug networks, as well as helping look after the syndicate’s interests, in the pro boxing industry. The son-in-law of Sicilian Godfather Vittorio “Don Vito” Vitale, Jimmy Q, who was sometimes called “Jimmy the Goon”, for his brutish ways, as a mafia up-&-comer, replaced Priziola as the crime family’s consigliere in the 1970s & lived into his 90s. He died in 2002, at the ripe old age of 92, still active in an advisory capacity to Detroit mob brass, until the very end of his life. Tony Giacalone, a prime suspect in literally dozens of mob hits, would go on to be convicted of tax evasion & extortion, in the forthcoming years, following the Hoffa case going cold. He died of kidney failure in 2001. His brother, the equally-deadly Billy Giacalone endured 3 more federal racketeering convictions in his mafia career, in the aftermath of the Hoffa ordeal & before he died of natural causes in 2012, as Jack Tocco’s 2nd-in-command.
The Giacalone brothers were seen meeting with Hoffa at his Lake Orion, Michigan lakeside home, the afternoon after they all had dinner with Joe Zerilli, Jimmy Q, & the Vitales at Larco’s, 3 days before Hoffa was last seen alive. Billy Jack’s son, Jack “Jackie the Kid” Giacalone, is alleged to have succeeded Jack Tocco as Godfather of the Detroit mafia, in the months before Tocco succumbed to his bad ticker.
Tony Provenzano, who was Tony Jack’s wife’s “uncle”, actually a cousin, died of cancer behind bars in 1988, having been convicted of a non-Hoffa related gangland homicide, 10 years prior. Little Lenny Schultz, Tony Jack, & Hoffa’s go-between for Teamster affairs, died at 95 in 2013. Schultz was revealed an FBI informant, during a subsequent drug narcotics-trafficking case.
