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Jimmy Fratianno, nicknamed "The Weasel" for his slight build and ability to elude the police, more than compensated for his physical shortcomings by his ability with a gun. He became one of the mob's most feared assassins before turning into the most candid informant since Joe Valachi. Fratianno was credited with at least eleven gangland killings, nine of which he admitted to. He was ritualistically initiated into the Mafia family in Los Angeles and gradually rose to become its head. He was sentenced to prison in 1954, and upon his release went into the trucking business where he earned close to $1.4 million.

Fratianno began working as an informant for the FBI in 1970 after he was once again sentenced to prison. In 1977, word of Fratianno's complicity leaked to the underworld. To avoid detection during the scrutiny Fratianno had brought on them, Mafia leaders were forced to spend millions altering their operations. During the next ten yea...

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