Notorious figures
Anthony Giacalone
1919–2001 · Detroit Mafia capo and street boss
East Side-born mobster known as Tony Jack, a Detroit Partnership leader whom Jimmy Hoffa expected to meet on the day he vanished in 1975.
- Born
Detroit, Michigan- Died
aged 82- Birth name
- Anthony Joseph Giacalone
- Also known as
- Tony Jack
- Detroit years
- 1919–2001
- Field
- Notorious figures
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Anthony Giacalone was born on Detroit's east side in 1919 to Sicilian immigrants and as a boy helped his father sell produce from a horse-drawn wagon in the Indian Village neighborhood. He rose through the Detroit Partnership as a capo and later street boss. Police and prosecutors saw him as the boss of the numbers racket in southeast Michigan; he was arrested in 1954 for bribing a Detroit police officer, and in 1963 Police Commissioner George Edwards named him before a Senate subcommittee as the Mafia's gambling boss in the area. Giacalone became nationally known through the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa: on July 30, 1975, Hoffa went to the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township expecting to meet him and Anthony Provenzano, but Giacalone was not there. He was never charged in the case. Convicted of tax evasion in 1976, he served a prison term and died in 2001.
Highlights
- Born on Detroit's east side in 1919
- Named Detroit's Mafia gambling boss before a Senate panel in 1963
- Hoffa's intended meeting partner on the day Hoffa disappeared
- Sentenced to ten years for tax evasion in 1976
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 2
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Related place · 1975
Machus Red Fox restaurant (former)
Closed
Bloomfield Township restaurant where Hoffa expected to meet Giacalone on July 30, 1975, and was last seen.
Buried here · 2001–
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Catholic cemetery in Southfield listed among the resting places of Detroit Mafia figures, including Giacalone.