New York City born Fat Tony Salerno got his start in the gambling and protection rackets for the Luciano family. This became the Genovese family. He worked his way up to the position of consigliere, or under boss of family... a position that gave him a pretty good over view of things that were taking place.

When asked what he knew about the killing of the president, he said, “It was Carlos (Marcello) and LBJ. He got what was coming to him.”