Detroit mobster, tied to Hoffa case, dies

[Bozita]

FEBRUARY 22, 2012 AT 1:00 AM
Detroit mobster, tied to Hoffa case, dies
BY ROBERT SNELL THE DETROIT NEWS 1 COMMENTS


Detroit— Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone, one of the area's most notorious organized crime figures and a suspect in the unsolved disappearance of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, has died.

His death Sunday severs one of the last ties to a storied era of Detroit gangsters who spent decades tangling with federal investigators, winning some cases, losing more.

The 88-year-old Clinton Township man was a tight-lipped "gambling czar" and younger brother of reputed Mafia captain Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, who was to have met with Hoffa the day he disappeared in 1975.

"He might have known what happened and may have taken that to the grave with him, but I never expected to get anything out of him," said Keith Corbett, former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Organized Crime Strike Force in Detroit. "He wasn't going to talk."

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[blueknight]

1. my brother

served time with vito in federal prison. said he was the nicest, old guy you could ever meet. funny how gangsters have split personalities.

[JNelson6563]

2. Grew up in that area

These guys and their "associates" are big on manners.

Julie

[HopeHoops]

3. Now we'll NEVER find his Teamsters ring!!!

[ambercolter]

4. Jimmy Hoffa

Only got interested in the Jimmy Hoffa history after watching series two of the Wire, which was no doubt inspired by Hoffa and his Teamsters.

[HopeHoops]

5. My post was more of a Bloom County reference.