Daniel Pagano was shot by the police after selling narcotics to an undercover in 1973
Any more info/sources in this?
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Here's the article that wiki cited
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E2DE133BE53ABC4D51DFB5668388669EDEI haven't read it though
A member of Spilotro crew in Vegas was shot because the cops thinked that the man had a gun while was only a sandwich.
That was on the movie casino right ??
Thanks Ivy I've never heard of him
Yes but its based on a real life fact (I cant find the real name) and Spilotro even asked Chicago the ok to kill the cops.
From "The Battle For Las Vegas" by Dennis N. Griffin
In 1979 a Lincoln with Illinois license plates pulled into the Upper Crust pizza place in Las Vegas where Tony Spilotro hung out. Police doing surveillance on Spilotro noticed him go in an talk to Spilotro. They decided to follow him to see who he was and eventually pulled him over for speeding. The cops identified themselves, but the guy tried to get out his car with a gun pointing at them so they shot him.
The guy killed was "Frank Bluestein, a 35-year-old waiter at the Hacienda Hotel and Casino, one of the properties controlled by the Chicago Outfit. His father, Steve Bluestein, was an official in the local Culinary Union and had been the subject of a 1978 search warrant as part of the FBI investigation of Tony Spilotro"
The cops later received information that Spilotro had put a contract on their life.
