CASINO MAFIA : THE REAL LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SPILOTRO BROTHERS - Graves & Crime Locations

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Even among the most violent mobsters in cinema history, the character of Nicky Santoro, played by Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film Casino, truly stands out. And though Santoro may seem too unhinged for real life, he was based on an actual Mafioso for the Chicago Outfit named Tony Spilotro.
In fact, the true story of Anthony “Tony The Ant” Spilotro is even more blood-soaked than the film version. From his beginnings in crime on the streets of 1960s Chicago to his exploits with the Hole in the Wall Gang and casino operator Frank Rosenthal in the 1970s and early ’80s, Spilotro’s story was as dramatic as it was violent.

Tony Spilotro was well known even in the mob by this point for his brutality. But it didn’t keep him from rising the ranks of their lucrative operations in Vegas.
The Chicago Outfit controlled the Las Vegas casinos and skimmed a bunch of cash off it for itself. To make the operation seem legit, Dennis Griffin noted in The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law Vs. The Mob, the Mafia put a man known as Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal in charge of the gambling operation. The Jewish Rosenthal served as the inspiration for De Niro’s character in Casino, Sam Rothstein, who makes the mob’s skimming operations seem legit.

Tony The Ant’s role was to keep the mobsters working for the Chicago Outfit in line while in Vegas. If any of them tried to take cash where they weren’t supposed to, Spilotro would wield his infamous ice pick and/or fists. He was also supposed to grab as much cash from the casino before it was officially logged in, i.e. “skim.”

The Mafia powers that be decided to kill Tony Spilotro and his brother, Michael. They were beaten to death in 1986, their bodies left in an Indiana cornfield.
In 2007, three Mafiosi were finally convicted of the Spilotro brothers’ killings.

The Spilotro brothers are burued together in a family plot in Chicago, Illinois.

In this case, the film Casino truly imitated life – except for the fact that, unlike Santoro, Tony Spilotro was not buried alive, though he was subjected to a torturous end that befitted a mobster as cruel as he was.