Jimmy Fratianno's Kevo

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 years, Fratianno fingered such underworld figures as Dominick Brooklier, Carmine Persico, and Frank Tieri. His testimony led to the investigation of the Teamsters Pension Fund, overseen by Allen Dorfman in Chicago, and the skimming of Las Vegas casino profits by mobsters in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Kansas City. Fratianno also implicated Frank Sinatra in a 1976 benefit concert scheme which netted the New York families $400,000. Later in 1987, Fratianno testified that the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jackie Presser, had admitted to having ties with Cleveland Mafia boss James Licavoli.

The Justice Department decided Fratianno had exhausted his usefulness to the government in August of 1987. He had been instrumental in the convictions of thirty mobsters, including six Mafia bosses. Fratianno was less than eager to be set free as it was common knowledge that a contract for $250,000 awaited the first gunman who succeeded in killing him. Fratianno was earning adequate royalties from his two biographies, one of which - 1981's The Last Mafioso - was a bestseller written with Ovid Demaris.
Work History
1947 Fratianno was initiated into the Mafia and rose to become its head. He was responsible for at least eleven gangland killings.

1960 after being released from prison Fratianno started his own trucking business.

Fratianno was an assassin for the mob in Cleveland, Ohio before he turned to an informant for the FBI.