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In the late 1960s Sinatra took on the role of an organized-crime icon. The top hoodlums of whatever city he appeared in heavily attended his concerts. Among the people who attended his performances regularly were Santos Traficante Jr., boss of Florida, Carlos Marcello, boss of New Orleans, Frank Piccolo, Gambino family capo in Connecticut, Frank Balistieri, boss of Milwaukee, as well as a host of lesser mobsters.
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Sinatra left the Hoboken Four and returned home in late 1935. His mother secured him a job as a singing waiter and MC at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood, New Jersey, for which he was paid $15 a week.[7]
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Joseph Fischetti... known as a ''Chicago gangster,'' but better known for his activities in Miami, especially in connection with the Fontainbleu Hotel, was one of Sinatra's closest friends in the 1940s. FBI surveillance of Fischetti shows that he and Sinatra kept in weekly telephone contact for an extended period. They met in person several times in New York and Miami.
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