Rudy Fratto

In 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times called Fratto a "reputed Elmwood Park street lieutenant." His name had come up during a sentencing hearing for a former Chicago police Chief of Detectives, in which Fratto was shown on FBI surveillance tapes to have held meetings with the former Chief of Detectives. In 2005, Fratto was identified in the Sun-Times as having met with Michael "Mickey" Marcello, the half-brother of reputed mob boss James Marcello, to approve efforts by the Marcellos to take over the video poker in several Chicago suburbs, including Cicero and Berwyn. Later that year, Fratto was reported to have been one of five mob bosses at a meeting at an Elmwood Park, Illinois restaurant with the mayor of Rosemont, Illinois. At that meeting they discussed how the Chicago Outfit would control contracts at a casino in Rosemont, according to testimony by FBI agent John Mallul. The other bosses at the meeting were Joseph Lombardo, Joseph Andriacchi, John DiFronzo and Peter DiFronzo. In September 2009, Fratto was indicted on tax evasion charges for allegedly not having reported nearly $200,000 in income in 2005. Also in 2009, Fratto and John DiFronzo were alleged in a civil lawsuit by Joseph Fosco, the son of late Teamsters treasurer Armando Fosco, to have tried to extort $400,000 from Fosco.