Cerone was part of the enforcer team that tortured and murdered loan shark William "Action" Jackson.
[citation needed] As an Outfit enforcer, Cerone was arrested over 20 times on charges including armed robbery, bookmaking, illegal gambling, and embezzlement.
Joseph Agosto, Kansas City crime family member and a Las Vegas show producer, who produced the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana Hotel Casino, turned state's evidence and testified against the mob bosses.
Milwaukee organized-crime boss, Frank Balistrieri, was sentenced to ten years in prison in the same case in December 1985.
Once a mob figure in Palm Springs, California, Cerone died of natural causes[1] six days after his release from prison in 1996.