Does any one know if Arthur Fonzarelli was made. I know that he was a massive earner as an associate back in the 50s. He ran a vending machine business/ protection racket centered on jukeboxes. He would tell the owners of a business that he could fix their "broken" jukeboxes. After the paid up, he would walk over to the jukebox, hit it, then it would work 'again'. He was also deep in chop shops. He was so familiar with motorcycles that he actually put one together blind once. He must have done thousands. He was never picked up by the Feds because he was so low key. He would wear leather jackets instead if brioni suits. He kept his house in name to a family who owed him gambling debts. He actually lived above the garage to trick the police.

He was so low key that he's hard to find info about happened in the 50s. Does anyone know if he was ever made? Was he involved in the unions or the Vegas skim? Any info?

STLquy, you gave me a good laugh there. I don't think Skippy was ever associated with organized crime. The last I heard he adopted a kid named Danny and a statue of him was placed in Downtown Milwaukee.

He was rumored to be responsible for the disappearance of Charles "Chuck" Cunningham. His nephew Charles "Chachi" Arcola worked at Fonzarelli's chop shop and was also tied to shaking down restaurant vendors with his step-father Alfred "Al" Delvecchio. Never heard any rumors about the Las Vegas skim.

Did you hear that he was involved in the Yakuza through some karate teacher?

That statue thing is ridiculous Jackie. The gangster worship in our culture is ridiculous.

I did, Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi, legendary Yakuza gangster.

Is this thread a joke or.....

Someone told they saw him not too long ago in Boca Raton. Fonz had some construction outfit that installed pricy Bocce pits for the geriatrics down there.

I heard he went into witsec and became a college feet small coach in Louisiana

A very rare surveillance photo of Fonzarelli standing down one of Milwuakee's finest in an argument over the weekly envelope.

According to FBI documents he had heavy influence with the Brewery Workers Union st the Shotz Brewery with two female associates who were union chairwomen, Laverne "Schlemiel" Di Fazio and Sherley "Hasenpfeffer" Feeney. They kept the membership in line through enforcers Andrew "Squiggy" Squigman and Leonard "Lenny" Konsnowski, both of whom also ran a book in a back room of the Pizza Bowl. Squigman disappeared in the early '80s after it was rumored he crossed some Oufit guys. Konsnowski now runs a respect legit book in Vegas and doesn't like to talk about his past associations in Milwaukee.

Thank you everyone, great info.

Has anyone here ever heard of an associate of his named 'Chachi'.
As I understand it, he was involved in some kind of home invasion/occupation where he let the official owners know that he was "in charge".

Also, I have just found out that in the 1970s Fonzarelli actually created a serial documentary about his crimes during the 1950s. However, the cagey bastard disguised the whole thing as the reminiscence of the indebted family that he victimized. (He didn't want to pull a Joe Bonanno and give up everything.)

I recently heard that the commission appointed him as the secretary of secrecy for the mafia. Allegedly his tactics has kept the thriving Buffalo and Cleveland families almost a total secret. Apparently Michael T----- in New Orleans has taken lessons from his too.

"Someone told they saw him not too long ago in Boca Raton. Fonz had some construction outfit that installed pricy Bocce pits for the geriatrics down there. "

I have heard rumors about his being active in the south too. Apparently he posed as some kind of football coach and took bets on all his games. He fixed all of them in his favor and collected the debts using some retarded player as his enforcer.

"I did, Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi, legendary Yakuza gangster."

Apparently is was some scheme where Takahashi extorted people into using his car waxing company and then forced them to wax on and wax off themselves.

"According to FBI documents he had heavy influence with the Brewery Workers Union st the Shotz Brewery with two female associates who were union chairwomen, Laverne "Schlemiel" Di Fazio and Sherley "Hasenpfeffer" Feeney. They kept the membership in line through enforcers Andrew "Squiggy" Squigman and Leonard "Lenny" Konsnowski, both of whom also ran a book in a back room of the Pizza Bowl. Squigman disappeared in the early '80s after it was rumored he crossed some Oufit guys. Konsnowski now runs a respect legit book in Vegas and doesn't like to talk about his past associations in Milwaukee. "

I knew he had to be into unions somewhere...Do you believe the rumors about him ordering the hit on Hoffa?

Only if he ran it by the consigliere, Richie "The Hump" Cunningham.

The Hoffa hit is so clouded in conspiracy theories and rumors it's hard to tell. I've had some reliable people say that it was an old timer from out-of-town , "Uncle" Rico Mastorelli, who did the work. Fonzarelli was powerful and carried influence, but if he did do it he was acting for the commission.