BOSTON, July 26 (UPI) -- Ernest Rocco Infelise, whose brutality and ruthlessness took him to No. 3 in the Chicago mob, died in a federal prison medical center near Boston. He was 82.
Infelise died Thursday at Fort Devens, a onetime military base 40 miles west of Boston where he was transferred March 8 from the El Reno, Okla., federal prison, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
The mobster and members of his so-called street crew were convicted in 1993 of conspiring to murder bookmaker Hal Smith, who refused to pay a $6,000 monthly street tax.
Infelise also was convicted of tax crimes and running an illegal bookmaking operation.
William Jahoda, a mob bookie and federal witness who died last year, secretly tape recorded Infelise and others talking about the slaying.
