Anthony Joseph Giacalone
Subject of a Detroit FBI anti-racketeering file opened in December 1957; the FBI history says Canadian authorities arrested him on racketeering charges in 1966, and an FBI affidavit printed by the Sixth Circuit says James R. Hoffa told witnesses he was going to meet him on 30 July 1975.
- Born
- 1919-01-10
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records and the filed newspaper pages state.
On the record
- 1955 — FBI Detroit report of 18 January 1958: "He was convicted and sentenced to 8 month jail term and $500 costs in 1955 in Detroit for bribery of police officer."
- 1958-01-18 — The same report calls him "active for years in PETE CORRADO gambling interests in Detroit," "presently active in Detroit numbers operations for the CORRADO group," and "characterized as a 'comer' in Detroit underworld." These are the Bureau's characterizations.
- 1962-07-19 — FBI Detroit teletype: observed at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens, with a redacted person and William "Black Bill" Tocco.
- 1966-07 — FBI Detroit Division history: "an FBI Detroit investigation enabled Canadian authorities to arrest Anthony Joseph Giacalone and Dominic Peter Corrado, two prominent members of the mob in Detroit, on a variety of racketeering charges."
- 1975-07-30 — United States v. Joseph Giacalone (6th Cir. 1976) prints an FBI agent's affidavit: Hoffa "advised witnesses ... he intended to meet with ANTHONY GIACALONE and ANTHONY PROVENZANO" at the Machus Red Fox restaurant, and at about 2:30 p.m. telephoned his wife that "GIACALONE had not as yet arrived." The court ruled only on probable cause to search a car.
The birth date is the one the FBI’s 1958 report gives (“born 1/10/19, Detroit, Mich.”). No role or family is set: the 1958 report’s words are the Bureau’s characterization from informants, and the history page’s “prominent members of the mob” is a description, not a rank stated by a court. The 1951 Kefauver transcript prints “Tony and Bill Giacolone” on a dance committee; no filed record says they are the Giacalones of the later records. The outcome of his 1970s tax case is known in the Vault file only from uncleared clippings and is not stated here.
Records
itemFBI Detroit teletype: Giacalone seen at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens (19 July 1962)An urgent teletype from the Detroit office reports that Anthony Joseph Giacalone was observed 'yesterday' at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, with a redacted person and 'William Quote Black Bill Unquote Tocco, local hoodlums'.itemUnited States v. Joseph Giacalone, 541 F.2d 508 (6th Cir. 1976)Sixth Circuit opinion of August 18, 1976 reversing an order that had returned a car seized under a search warrant in the FBI's investigation of James R. Hoffa's disappearance. The opinion prints the agent's affidavit: Hoffa said he was going to the Machus Red Fox restaurant to meet Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano on 30 July 1975.itemFBI history: the Detroit DivisionThe FBI's own history of its Detroit field office mentions the Prohibition-era 'Purple Gang', the 1966 Canadian arrests of Anthony Joseph Giacalone and Dominic Peter Corrado, the 1975 gambling sentences of Anthony Giardano, Anthony Zerilli and Michael Pollizzi, and the 1996 GAMTAX indictment of 17 members of 'the Detroit mob'.