Rudolph "Rudy" Fratto (born December 12, 1943) has been identified by federal authorities and several Chicago newspapers as a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit crime organization.

Chicago Outfit career

In 2002, the

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called Fratto a "reputed Elmwood Park street lieutenant." His name had come up during a sentencing hearing for a former Chicago police Chief of Detectives, in which Fratto was shown on FBI surveillance tapes to have held meetings with the former Chief of Detectives. In 2005, Fratto was identified in the

as having met with Michael "Mickey" Marcello, the half-brother of reputed mob boss

James Marcello James J. Marcello (born December 13, 1943), also known variously as "Little Jimmy", "Jimmy Light" and as "Jimmy the Man", is a crime boss who was a front boss for the Chicago Outfit criminal organization in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Org ...

, to approve efforts by the Marcellos to take over the video poker in several Chicago suburbs, including

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and Berwyn. Later that year, Fratto was reported to have been one of five mob bosses at a meeting at an Elmwood Park, Illinois restaurant with the mayor of

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. At that meeting they discussed how the Chicago Outfit would control contracts at a casino in Rosemont, according to testimony by FBI agent John Mallul. The other bosses at the meeting were

Joseph Lombardo Joseph Patrick Lombardo (born Giuseppe Lombardi; January 1, 1929 – October 19, 2019), also known as "Joey the Clown", was an American mobster and a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit crime organization. He was alleged to be the ''Consi ...

Joseph Andriacchi Joseph Andriacchi (born October 20, 1932) is a Chicago area resident and convicted criminal, considered by that city's Crime Commission to be a high-ranking member of the Outfit, the city's LCN organization. Chicago Outfit career In 1989, the ' ...

John DiFronzo John DiFronzo (December 13, 1928 – May 27, 2018), nicknamed "No Nose", was an American mobster and the reputed former boss of the Chicago Outfit. Biography DiFronzo, a former enforcer and caporegime, first appeared with a criminal record in ...

and

Peter DiFronzo Peter DiFronzo (May 13, 1933 – December 4, 2020) was an American mobster in the Chicago Outfit. Life DiFronzo was a made member and the caporegime of the Elmwood Park Crew within the Chicago Outfit. In 1965, he was sentenced to 10 years a ...

Recent indictments and convictions

In September 2009, Fratto was indicted on tax evasion charges for allegedly not having reported nearly $200,000 in income in 2005. Also in 2009, Fratto and

were alleged in a civil lawsuit by Joseph Fosco, the son of late Teamsters treasurer

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, to have tried to extort $400,000 from Fosco. Fratto subsequently was convicted for evading federal income tax payments for seven years. On January 27, 2010, he was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of $141,000. He was released in July 2011. It was reported in May 2017 that Fratto had stopped paying the restitution since at least early 2016. On October 27, 2011, Fratto pleaded guilty in a separate bid-rigging scheme involving forklift contracts for two trade exhibitions at a large exposition center in Chicago. On September 26, 2012, Judge

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sentenced Fratto to about 1 year in federal prison, which was significantly less than the up to 2 years in prison that federal sentencing guidelines had called for.

Personal

Fratto is the nephew of

Louis Fratto Louis Thomas Fratto (July 17, 1907 – November 24, 1967), born Luigi Tommaso Giuseppe Fratto, also known as "Lew Farrell" and "Cock-eyed", was an American labor racketeer and organized crime figure in Chicago, Illinois and Des Moines, Iowa from ...

, an associate of

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and reputed

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mob boss from 1930 until 1967. Fratto was reportedly made in 1988. Possibly in the same ceremony as Salvatore "Solly D" DeLaurentis and John "Pudgy" Matassa. He lives in Darien, Illinois

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fratto, Rudy 1943 births Living people People from Darien, Illinois American gangsters of Italian descent Chicago Outfit mobsters American crime bosses American people convicted of tax crimes People from Elmwood Park, Illinois