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William Morris ("Willie")
Bioff (October 12, 1900 –
November 4, 1955) was a Jewish-American
organized crime figure who
operated as a
Chicago pimp and...
- Labor. In 1943,
Browne was
tried and
convicted with co-conspirator
Willie Bioff, of
extortion of $1.2
million from
Hollywood film
studio producers after...
- Campagna,
began financially supporting extortion operations by
Willie Morris Bioff and
George Brown against Hollywood movie studios. In
exchange for annual...
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since this had been Nitti's
scheme and that of the FBI
informant (Willie
Bioff), one of Nitti's
trusted ****ociates,
Nitti should go to prison. A severe...
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International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees union, and
Willie Bioff,
labor racketeer and
former pimp.
Later in 1942,
Roselli enlisted in the...
- were received.
Willie Bioff,
another Chicago gangster, was
instantly elected Browne's "personal representative".
Later that year
Bioff went to
Hollywood on...
- Coppola,
caporegime of the 116th
Street Crew
October 12 –
William Morris Bioff,
Mafia extortionist The
Olympis Café, a dive bar in Chicago's
Whiskey Row...
- Bernstein,
leader of the Jewish-American
Purple Gang in
Detroit William Morris Bioff,
Chicago Outfit pimp and
mobbed up
labor union boss
based in
Southern California...
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visited Bioff in
prison and gave him the
following answer:
Anybody who resigns,
resigns feet first."
After this encounter, the
frightened Bioff became...
- arrested, but an all-white
grand jury
refused to
indict them.
William Morris Bioff (55), a
labor leader with organized-crime ties, was
killed by a bomb that...