James LaPietra
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James "Jimmy the Lapper" LaPietra (1927-1993) was a Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit. He was also the younger brother of mobster Angelo "the Hook" LaPietra.
A minor organized crime figure with arrests for burglary and rape, LaPietra was involved in labor racketeering and other criminal activities in Chicago's Southside. LaPietra was named by Stephen Ryan, a staff attorney for the President's Commission on Organized Crime, as a member of the Chicago syndicate based on the testimony of labor union official John Serpico during federal hearings on labor raketeering in April 1985. He died of natural causes in 1993.
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- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Organized Crime in Chicago: Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs. 1983. [1]
