Vincent Alo

Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo (May 26, 1904 – March 9, 2001) was a New York mobster and a high-ranking capo in the Genovese crime family who set up casino operations with mob associate Meyer Lansky in Florida and Cuba.

[citation needed] In 1926, Alo became a made man, or full member, of Joseph "Joe the Boss" Masseria's powerful New York gang.

Luciano may have wanted Alo to also monitor Lansky (a claim reinforced in Vincent Teresa's My Life In the Mafia and The Last Mafioso by Ovid Demaris).

When Lansky and Alo arrived in Florida, they immediately started making contributions to local fraternal organizations and secret payments to politicians and law enforcement.

[citation needed] The character Victor Tellegio, portrayed by Robert De Niro, in the film American Hustle (2013) is based on Alo as well.

[1] He also provided the full story of Prohibition-era bootlegging to Drew Struzan's wife Dylan, who published it as the 2019 nonfiction narrative book A Bloody Business.

The grave of Vincent Alo in Woodlawn Cemetery