Organized Crime Figure. Brother of Tony Giannola. Assumed control of the family in January 1919. A month after his brother's murder, Sam Giannola survived an attempt on his life which killed his brother-in-law Pasquale D'Anna. Three weeks later, John Vitale's son and two others were shot in the lobby of the Wayne County Jail. Sam Giannola was charged with murder but acquitted. After a reluctant peace treaty in May 1919, Giannola attempted to ease himself out of the business, but was shot dead in front of the American State Bank at Monroe and Russell streets on October 2, 1919, by three men, one of them being his personal bodyguard. His funeral was one of the most elegant and heartfelt in Detroit at the time.
Organized Crime Figure. Brother of Tony Giannola. Assumed control of the family in January 1919. A month after his brother's murder, Sam Giannola survived an attempt on his life which killed his brother-in-law Pasquale D'Anna. Three weeks later, John Vitale's son and two others were shot in the lobby of the Wayne County Jail. Sam Giannola was charged with murder but acquitted. After a reluctant peace treaty in May 1919, Giannola attempted to ease himself out of the business, but was shot dead in front of the American State Bank at Monroe and Russell streets on October 2, 1919, by three men, one of them being his personal bodyguard. His funeral was one of the most elegant and heartfelt in Detroit at the time.
Bio by: Dennis Rice
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