The Last Day Of Gangster Frank Nitti

Frank Nitti was another one of Al Capone's top associates and ran Big Al's smuggling and liquor distributing operation. He went to prison with Capone in 1932 but was released after eighteen months. Following his parole he became the head of the old Capone mob. It was a figurehead position for the most part with mobsters like Paul Ricca and Tony Accardo were the real power in the organization.

He served as boss until the early forties when he was indited along with a number of other Chicago gangsters in a Hollywood extortion plot. Since it Nitti's scheme that went bad and one of his close associates that was the informant it was decided that Nitti would do time. Frank Nitti was very claustrophobic.

The day before he was supposed to testify before the grand jury he had breakfast with his wife. Then after she left for church Frank drank heavily loaded a pistol in his pocket and went for a walk. He walked along some railroad tracks for awhile and then, shortly after being passed by a train, pulled out his pistol and shot himself.

Click here for more information on Frank Nitti.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nitti

MyAlCaponeMuseum is a great resource on Chicago underworld history and has been used extensively in our series. http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/index.htm

We have also found TheChicagoSyndicate site to be an excellent resource;
http://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2006/03/chicago-syndicate-aka-outfit_09.html
This clip is part of a series produced by MindsiMedia and presented on ChiTownView 's YouTube station. We are getting some Chicago crime history in HBO's series "Boardwalk Empire" and more will be on display when the film version of Eric Larsen's "Devil In The White City". Our series shows some of the famous places in Chicago crime history as they exist today. While telling some of that history with each clip.

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[Chrisruffolo81]

THIS IS NOT COOL PLEASE STOP THE ABUSE I WANT THE NITTI FAMILY TO LEAVE ME ALONE!!

[shredmaster100]

yeah if you believed every thing hollywood does in its movies they would have you believe that star wars is real lol

[holsterboy166]

@shredmaster100 Because Hollywood is bullshit and they embellish almost every story to add on to the legend in order to sell more products.

[shredmaster100]

hey wait a sec why in the film the untouchables does frank get thrown off a building why did they kill him in the film when thats not what really happened doesnt make sense to me