On return to New York he worked with Lucky Luciano, and in 1936 he was arrested on ‘white slavery charges’ in a racket that grossed $12 million a year. The women were happy to testify against him and he served twenty years in Sing Sing prison.
He was paroled in 1956 and then trafficked heroin for the Genovese family though Lower East Side and Greenwich Village bars including the 82 Club. He was involved in pornography in the late 1960s and until the business was sold to the Gambino family. He continued in sex-related businesses and cocaine trafficking until he fled the US after a murder. He died in Spain.
- “David Petillo”. "The FBI Files: David Petillo Did It In Drag". Friends of Ours
Mostly About Organized Crime, 12/20/2010. Archive.
See the footnote to my article on Finocchio’s nightclub for the etymology of ‘finocchio’.
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