No word yet on the cause. He’s been sick for a while with covid, copd and other illnesses. But word is he passed early this morning.

That's a bummer. I was enjoying his recent YouTube vids. He seemed like he turned out to be a decent human once he flipped.

Man had some interesting stories to tell for sure

RIP. Even if he informed he will go down in history not to mention his role in Casino is immortalized forever.

"Where you goin' jag-off" before he caps that guy in Casino always cracks me up for some reason lol

Sad. He actually answered a question of mine In one of his videos about Mad Sam.

What was dudes name? Wasn't it Larry Nance or some shit that he killed in that scene?

His book with Griffin is pretty good Cullotta check it out ! RIP

His book is a good read. Many mobsters who turn say that guys were setting them up to take the fall to prison or worse being killed, but Cullotta actually has the tapes and informants backing conversations up showing Tony the Ant was really burying him to Chicago.

Same here

Like Hollander said, his book with Griffin was good. Always found professional thieves interesting plus a bit of Chicago Outfit insight. RIP.

Nance, that's the one yeah. His name escaped me, it's been years since I've last seen that movie.

I was enjoying his coffee with Cullota vids, actually quite liked him and his sense of humour..

Former Mafia hitman Frank Cullotta dies at 81 – Story was immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s epic Casino http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...-cullotta-dies-at-81-story-was-immortali

are you fucking kiddin,,,theres actucally ppl in youtube actucally glorifing this person.....hes a RAT...we should be dancing on his grave,,,fu

If we're all being honest about it, kid is right. Put this in perspective:

This guy was obviously a charismatic entertainer, who in his later years, a life of crime long behind him gave us all the entertainment and to some extent offered the lessons of a life spent engaged in crime. The fact that he knew personally some of the characters who most captivate the interest of OC afficionados made his accounts fascinating. This somewhat redeemed him in his later years, perhaps, though that is not for me to say.

And don't get me wrong - I would have loved to have had a coffee with this guy and heard what he had to say. But don't kid yourself either - this guy made his lot in life out of taking away other people's property. If you were the victim of The Hole In The Wall Gang you'd have a very different perspective if you looked into your office/safe one day and all your valuables were gone. No way you'd be saying "f*ck me that Frank Cullotta is so cool". This guy created a lifetime of misery for other people. Were he some random burglar you wouldn't care that he died. The fact that he's the real life template of "Frank Marino" is the only reason most people have so much sympathy.

I don't celebrate the loss of any human life, but I would be careful not to deify someone who was clearly no Robin Hood, and for most of his life probably not even a very nice person.

I must have seen that scene 100 times and never realized it was Culotta until you mentioned it here.

Not much of a surprise. He was an old man and was on oxygen and had CPOD then he contracted covid. The guy who helped that channel had his father die not long after they had all gotten sick and the way he kept saying that Frank wasn't feeling well enough to do a new video or a live stream I figured he was worse off than they were letting on. He had an interesting life and that was an interesting channel.

Weird that in one of his videos he said he happened to run into Tony Spilotro's wife Nancy at the pharmacy years after he had been in WP and he gave her a few hundred bucks as she was broke and was selling prescription pills to make ends meet. What the hell happened to all Tony's $$$$$ and assets? He had to have been rolling in dough with all the illegal shit he was involved in for a few decades and Frank had talked about the properties that he owned in and around Vegas and the legit restaurants and investments he was into. He legit sold his jewelry store and got was the equivalent of 700K back in the day. I find it hard to believe he basically had nothing to leave to his family. I guess Tony's adopted son got into drugs after Tony was killed and OD'd and passed away a few years back. Frank also said that Tony would have been essentially kicked out of the mob when he was sent to prison, which would have been a relatively short stretch as Tony wasn't an old man when he was going to trial before he and his brother got murdered. If that was the case, why in the hell wouldn't Tony just have flipped himself? Why do 10 years and have nothing to come back to when you get out and get shelved? And on top of that keep your mouth shut and have no one looking out for your family while you do a stretch? Seems like almost a sure fire way to essentially force someone into cooperating and he was a high ranking guy.

I don't buy Frank's recollection that one of his Witness Protection handlers told him Tony was thinking about cooperating though because the FBI would have had absolutely loved to flip a guy like Tony, he could have given them the whole upper echelon of the mob in Chicago and it would have been a much bigger deal than the Family Secrets trial a few years later that ironically centered around the Spilotro brother's murders. Obviously if Tony was considering ratting, he sure as hell wouldn't have taken the chance and went to that "meeting" in the basement with his brother.

What is book's title , so I can purchase??

Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness

Classic scene when Chicago decides to whack everyone lol

I think he was related to Joe Kong Cullotta, but there's also Frank's brother Joe.

Former Chicago mobster-turned-government witness Frank Cullotta dies in Nevada hospital
Frank Cullotta served as a mob associate from the mid 1950s until 1982 and had admitted to committing more than 300 burglaries, 200 thefts, 25 arson and two murders.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/23/21398431/frank-cullotta-dies-of-covid-complications

Thanx Hollander , 4 all the info..I'll proceed w/ the purchase.hopefully in softback version.

Video just released from the guy running Frank Cullota’s you tube channel...mostly pictures Frank had left him and some interesting clips etc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td9Gfg5Ny-E&feature=share