The Rise and Fall of Fat Tony Salerno: America’s Richest Mafia Kingpin

The Rise and Fall of Fat Tony Salerno: America’s Richest Mafia Kingpin The Rise and Fall of Fat Tony Salerno: America’s Richest Mafia Kingpin The Rise and Fall of Fat Tony Salerno: America’s Richest Mafia Kingpin Discover the complete untold story of Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno – the cigar-chomping East Harlem mobster Fortune Magazine once named America’s most powerful and wealthiest gangster. Born in 1911 on the tough streets of Italian Harlem, Fat Tony rose from small-time street operator to control one of New York’s largest numbers rackets – an illegal lottery empire that reportedly grossed up to $50 million a year at its peak. He dominated loansharking, extortion, and construction bid-rigging, influencing everything from Manhattan skyscrapers to national labor unions. By the early 1980s, Salerno had become the public front boss of the powerful Genovese Crime Family, secretly shielding the real power behind the scenes while sitting on the Mafia Commission – the secret ruling council