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Tony Grosso (December 9, 1913 – August 12, 1994) was an American bookmaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ==Biography== Anthony M. Grosso was born December 9, 1913. A native of Pittsburgh's Hill District, beginning in 1938, he was involved in running an illegal daily lottery in the area.〔Grosso v. Commissioner, 40 T.C.M. (CCH) 410, 40 T.C. Memo. 1980 (T.C.M., 1980)〕 At its peak in the late 1960s, his business employed an estimated 5,000 people and grossed $30 million a year.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JFoqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R1UEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7190%2C3596941〕 Grosso served 28 months in jail for racketeering after a 1973 conviction and in 1986 was sentenced to 14 years in prison for violating federal gambling laws and evading taxes. Upon his release from federal prison in Texas in 1991, Grosso immediately entered a state penitentiary to serve additional time for running the numbers business and criminal conspiracy. Following his 1987 incarceration, his business was taken over by Junior and Salvatore Williams. Grosso was known to have many ingenious even comical defenses. One caught the eye of businessman Malcolm Forbes after Grosso beat the IRS trying to hold his wife Angela responsible for his tax evasion crime: After Anthony Grosso, an operator of an illegal numbers lottery, was caught and convicted, the IRS demanded that his wife, Angela, pony up the unpaid income tax on Anthony's huge illegal income. Though they had filed a joint return, her husband maintained that Angela knew nothing of the unreported sums. "Under the Italian custom, we have a way of not telling our wives anything. We don't want to hurt them," Grosso explained. The Tax Court agreed and rejected the IRS argument that Angela knew about her husband's "take." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Grosso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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