John Stompanato Jr. was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for the gangster Mickey Cohen.
John Stompanato (front left) during the Pacific War in WWII, with his comrades, Anthony “Duke” Falco (top left), Anthony “Sag” Sylvester (top right),(gathering behind the grave of Pfc. Joseph J. Petillo of Asbury Park, New Jersey. KIA Okinawa. Photo courtesy of the Falco Family of Asbury Park, NJ.