Frank Buccieri
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Frank "The Horse" Buccieri (January 23, 1919 – March 8, 2004), also known as "Frank Russo" or "Big Frank", was an American mobster who headed mob operations on the West Coast of the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the brother of Outfit hitman Fiore "Fifi" Buccieri.
In 1936, the 17-year-old Buccieri was arraigned in a Chicago court on charges of
West Side
.
In the late 1970s, Buccieri bought a home in Palm Springs, California.[2]
In June 1981, the New York-based
Mafia Commission appointed Buccieri to run its criminal operations in California. Buccieri succeeded mobster Frank "The Bomp" Bompensiero, who had been murdered, and Tommy Ricciardi. Buccieri was reportedly assigned a capo, or captain, from the New York Lucchese crime family
to help in the day-to-day operations in California. One investigator explained, "The Commission wanted someone they could trust to handle the lucrative California rackets and this time they wanted to make sure nothing went wrong."
On March 8, 2004, Frank Buccieri died of natural causes.
References
- ^ "Judicial flogging, USA, July 1936 - CORPUN ARCHIVE usju3607".
- Vincent Dominic Cacibought a home in Palm Springs.
- Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
Further reading
- Peterson, Virgil W. Chicago: Shades of Capone. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, CCCXVII (May 1963).