William F. Roemer JR
William F. Roemer JR
William F. Roemer JR
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Contents
Early life
Career highlights
Retirement and later life
Bibliography
References
External links
Early life
William F. Roemer Jr. was born in Indiana to William F. Roemer (March 4, 1894 – September 25, 1971)[1] (https://www.f
indagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98337528), a former Jesuit seminarian, and Carmel Luther Roemer (May
7, 1904 – April 23, 1980)[2] (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98338570).
During World War Two, he served as a Private (1st Class) in the U.S. Marine Corps. He attended University of Notre Dame
for a legal career. While there, he became an amateur boxer, and was nicknamed "Zip" for his skills.
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Career highlights
William F. Roemer Jr then joined the FBI in 1950 and served there for 30 years before retiring in 1980. When J. Edgar
Hoover created the Bureau's Top Hoodlum Program in 1957, Roemer was personally selected for the task. The program
consisted of surveillance of organized crime figures. Roemer also developed (or tried to develop, "flip") several mob
informants. Richard Cain, a disgraced former cop turned mafioso, was one of those. With his efforts, he helped the Feds
put away Outfit bosses like Sam "Teets" Bataglia and Felix "Milwaukee Phil" Alderisio within a year of their rise to
leadership. Roemer also tried over a period of time to "flip" Outfit "hitman" Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti, to no avail.
Roemer was indirectly related to the death of William "Action" Jackson who was the victim of a grisly gangland murder
after Roemer was observed trying to make Jackson an informant and the Chicago Outfit suspected him of snitching.[1]
Roemer relocated to Arizona and was assigned to Joe Bonanno, and helped the FBI convict him. Roemer mentions how he
had to go through Bonanno's trash to obtain torn pieces of paper written by Bonanno outlining his daily agenda and
having to wiretap the different phone booths Bonanno used to relay his messages.
On June 14, 1996, two days short of his 70th birthday, Bill Roemer Jr died of natural causes at his home in Tucson,
Arizona. He was cremated in Arizona, however, a plaque in his honor is located at the Cedar Grove Cemetery, St. Joseph
County, Indiana (see his two entries at findagrave.com).
Bibliography
Roemer, William F. Jr. (1989) Roemer: Man Against the Mob, New York : D.I. Fine, ISBN 1-55611-146-0
Roemer, William F. Jr. (1990) War of the Godfathers: The Bloody Confrontation Between the Chicago and New York
Families for the Control of Las Vegas, New York : D.I. Fine, ISBN 1-55611-193-2
Roemer, William F. Jr. (1994) The Enforcer: Spilotro, The Chicago Mob’s Man Over Las Vegas, New York : D.I. Fine,
ISBN 1-55611-399-4
Roemer, William F. Jr. (1995) Accardo: The Genuine Godfather, New York : D.I. Fine, ISBN 1-55611-467-2
Roemer, William F. Jr. (1994) Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos, and Baseball[3] (ht
tps://www.google.com/search?q=Mob+Power+Plays-+The+Mob+Attempts+Control+of+Congress%2C+Casinos%2C+
and+Baseball%3A+A+Novel&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)
References
1. William F. Roemer Jr., Accardo: The Genuine Godfather (New York: Ivy Books, 1995), 279.
2. "Sugartime (TV Movie 1995)" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0117777/). IMDb. 25 November 1995. Retrieved 28 September
2014.
External links
William F. Roemer Jr. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1086451/) on IMDb
http://www.ipsn.org/roemer.php
"William F. Roemer Jr" (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98337758). Find a Grave. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
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