Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness (15 page)

 

Another mug shot of Frank taken in Las Vegas in 1980.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting of the Chicago Outfit, circa 1970s. From left to right (front row)—Anthony “Joe Batters” Accardo, Joseph “Black Joe” Amato, Joseph “Little Caesar” DiVarco, James “Turk” Torello; (back row)—Joseph “Doves” Aiuppa, Martin Accardo, Vincent Solano, Alfred Pilotto, Jackie Cerone, Joseph “The Clown” Lombardo (courtesy of Gene Smith).

 

 

 

 

 

Former site of Bertha’s Gifts & Home Furnishings, 896 East Sahara, 1981 (courtesy of Dennis N. Griffin).

 

 

 

 

2004 prison photo of Lawerence Neumann (courtesy of Illinois Dept. of Corrections).

 

 

 

 

Bertha’s burglars, July 4, 1981. From left to right: Ernest Davino, Lawrence Neumann, Wayne Matecki, Leo Guardino, Joe Blasko, and Frank Cullotta (courtesy of Gene Smith).

 

 

 

 

Left to right: Special Agent Mark Kaspar, Tony Spilotro, Special Agent Dennis Arnoldy, and Supervisory Special Agent Charlie Parsons (courtesy of
Las Vegas Review Journal
).

 

 

 

 

Tony Spilotro’s 1983 mug shots (courtesy of Gene Smith).

 

 

 

 

Herb Blitzstein, Tony Spilotro’s trusted lieutenant (courtesy of LVMPD).

 

 

 

 

Kent Clifford, Commander of the LVMPD Intelligence Bureau under Sheriff McCarthy (courtesy of Kent Clifford).

 

 

 

 

Sgt. Gene Smith of the LVMPD, circa 1975 (courtesy of Gene Smith).

 

 

 

 

Frank and Nick Pileggi in Pileggi’s office in New York City.

 

 

 

 

FBI agent Dennis Arnoldy, who debriefed and protected Frank for so long that the two became friends (courtesy of Dennis Arnoldy).