Salvatore Battaglia
Convicted with Dave Evans of a Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy against the Riley Management Corporation; the Seventh Circuit affirmed in 1968 over Judge Swygert's dissent.
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- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- February 1967 — United States v. Battaglia (7th Cir. 1968) concerns an indictment charging him, Dave Evans, and Joseph Amabile with conspiring to violate the Hobbs Act by extorting $48,500 from the Riley Management Corporation. A jury convicted him.
- 9 January 1968 — The Seventh Circuit affirmed: "No prejudicial error having been shown, the two judgments are affirmed."
- 9 January 1968 — Judge Swygert's dissent quotes the government's brief: "Amabile was the muscle while Battaglia was the brains, setting policy and settling disputes. His veil of secrecy was his supposed anonymity, known to a few as 'The Man.'" He wrote that "On this record there is absent any evidence, direct or circumstantial, demonstrating that Battaglia knew that money was to be extorted from Riley."
This page keeps the name the court used. A 1959 FBI memorandum in the Accardo Vault file names a “SAM BATTAGLIA” among men an attorney called “young turks,” but no record opened for this archive says that man and the Salvatore Battaglia of this opinion are the same person, so the memorandum is not cited here.
The phrase “The Man” is the government’s brief as one dissenting judge quoted it, about the extortion scheme. It is not a rank, and family and role are empty. No opened record gives his birth or death date.