List of Chicago Rats/Informers

Want to get a list going of Chicago informants. This could include informants from other Families who testified or informed on or about Chicago. To start out, here's some examples. Please feel free to add more.

*Ken Eto - North Side gambling boss/associate
*Angelo Lonardo - Cleveland underboss
*James Fratianno - Los Angeles acting underboss/soldier (ex-capo)
*Frank Bompensiero - Los Angeles soldier (ex capo)
*Nick Calabrese - 26th Street made member
*Frank Calabrese Jr. - 26th Street soldier (not made)
*Mario Rainone - Lenny Patrick street crew member
*Lenny Patrick - street crew boss
*Roger Touhy - Rival gang member falsely imprisoned
*Gerry Covelli - North Side soldier (not made)
*Gerald Scarpelli - Cicero crew made crew member
*Charles Gioe - Grand Avenue made member - allegedly secretly informed
*Mike Magnafichi - Elmwood Park made member
*James LaValley - Lenny Patrick crew member
*William Jahoda - Cicero crew member
*Nick Caramandi - Philadelphia soldier or associate

Louis Bombacino - Elmwood Park (allegedly made)
Victor Arriga - North Side (allegedly made)

Was Vic Arrigo really an informer? I've always heard mixed things about this and I think the informant is NOT Victor "Popeye" Arrigo who used to work for Joe DiVarco.

Anyone got info on that?

A few others to add to the list include:

Paul ``Peanuts`` Panczko - Burglar who worked with all crews
Leonard Foresta - Cicero Crew
Joe Granata - Cicero Crew
James "Duke" Basille - Cicero Crew

Good call on Granata, forgot about him.

The Vic Arrigo I am thinking of was definitely the North Side guy who was affiliated with DiVarco. Arrigo spoke with FBI agents in early 1984 and claimed that he had been made with Babe DeMonte at the same ceremony (date unspecified). He also claimed to be present at a meeting between Chinatown and the North Side in late 1983 with Solano, DeMonte, Skids Caruso and others present. Arrigo claimed that Skids told him that if DeMonte had not have been in jail at the time then they (meaning Skids and Chinatown) would not have had to deal with Campise and Gattuso. This infers that Babe DeMonte would have been assigned the contract to kill Campise/Gattuso rather than the Chinatown crew.

Also:
William "Red" Wemette - Grand Avenue associate
Robert Cooley - Political

willie biofff. cost a lot of made outfit guys a lot of time in the forties. killed by a car bomb in Arizona I believe, 1955?

also frank culotta, wrote the book giving up the spillotro crew. the name of the book was "the hole in the wall gang"

also maybe include red dorfmann, allan glick.

Yeah, Bioff testified against Nitti and Ricca. Forgot about Culottoa.

Dorfman never testified but was killed for fear that he might. Glick was just a patsy and I don't think he needs to be included.

ok. snakes.

What about Herbert Panice Sr. Accoding to Wayne Johnson, Panice testified against Al Tocco.

Source : "A History Of Violence."

Another one to add is Chuckie Crimaldi, who collected for Sam DeStefano and testified against Spilotro.

betty tocco, albert's wife

lenny patrick was also not made, right?

Patrick was Jewish, so no.

Michael Corbitt
Charles Bills

Edward O'Hare informed on Capone

How did Caramandi become a Chicago rat?

Frank Lefty Rosenthal

Can we just start banning the trolls?

He actually was a dry snitch, it just didn't come out until after he died.

William Dauber (associate)

Magnafichi isn't a rat? he's still active in Chicago, no?

I think he is including Magnafichi since he granted an interview with Fosco a few years ago. He is currently inactive.

Never trolled on here bud. There's this search engine called google ,you should try it. Look at what I found when searching for Frank Rosenthal. There was also a pdf you could download or open which is the second link from top. Heres the article about him being a informant.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/jane-ann-morrison/lefty-rosenthal-was-fbi-snitch