Originally Posted By: realnoname
Very good story.

You may find it interesting to note that a key government witness “Henry Lakey” aka Henry Rufo was found murdered after being stuffed in a trunk in December 1971.

Lakey refused to enter the witness protection program only changing his name and remained living in Lombard, Illinois. Lakey’s wife told investigators he was meeting a “Al Tornabene” yes that guy, to discuss opening a pizza parlor.

Little if any investigation was done as it seemed the United States Government was not intreseted in informing the public that a cooperating witness was found and killed.

One last note, the car in which Henry was eventually found was originally parked in a hotel parking lot in Northlake which was meant to send a message. What would may be in todays standards considered sloppy police work the vehicle which was stolen being virtually brand new, it was decided to not explore the contents of the trunk until it was later inventoried by an unsuspecting insurance agent in Freeport, Illinois.


Thanks for the info.All i knew was that LaKey acted as a frontman for Pranno's businesses and that they had some problems with one company.... and yeah Tornabene(the Pizza Man)was a legend in the Outfit who later became a consiglieri i think.

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