Anthony Strollo
? to April 8, 1962?
"Tony Bender"

Strollo was a lieutenant in the Luciano-Genovese Crime Family.

Joe Valachi recalled that Strollo was his immediate superior in the Family when he was recruited by Vito Genovese after the death of Valachi's former boss Salvatore Maranzano. Strollo got Valachi and his partner Bobby Doyle started in gambling ventures, acquiring them permission from mob higher-ups to set up 20 slot machines in New York City.

According to Valachi, Strollo regularly dealt in narcotics despite his bosses' rules against such activity. In 1960, the drug trafficking (and the fact that he didn't cut his bosses in for a share of each deal) got him in trouble with Vito Genovese, then in jail on a narcotics conviction. Additional narcotics charges were lodged against Genovese in 1961, and the boss grew enraged at Strollo.

On April 8, 1962, Strollo vanished without a trace.

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The American "Mafia"