Frankie Yale
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Francesco Ioele, known as Frankie Yale or Frankie Uale, was an American gangster based in Brooklyn and the second employer of Al Capone.
Yale's 1912 mugshot
Yale cultivated a populist public image as a philanthropic sporting event promoter. In a 1927 Brooklyn Daily Times profile, he promoted a charitable boxing card to benefit the building fund of St. Rosalia's Church.
Big Jim Colosimo
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Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago ba
Frankie Yale
…operator of a neighborhood restaurant, Yale battered the two unconscious. In May 1920, Yale traveled to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Big Jim Colosimo at the behest of Chicago Outfit friends Torrio and Capone. Colosimo was allegedly murdered because he stood in the way of his gang making huge bootlegging…
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
Al Capone mugshot
Colosimo mausoleum at Oak Woods Cemetery