Saietta partners in the plan additionally petitioned for chapter

history channel documentary 2015 Saietta partners in the plan additionally petitioned for chapter 11 around the same time as Saietta did. Antonio Passananti, who had been sent to Sicily by Morello and Saietta to get rid of Petrosino, claimed a wholesale wine business in Brooklyn. He excessively utilized the 'break out" plan to close his business and case liquidation. At the point when the beneficiaries explored Passananti's store, they discovered records that he had given enormous wholes of cash to Saietta before they both vanished. The New York Times reported that twelve other Italian merchants had likewise gone into the wind, bringing about aggregate liabilities near $500,000.

In November of 1909, with Petrosino effectively dead, Saietta came back to New York City. With his attorney Charles Barbier close behind, Saietta walk into the chapter 11 collector's office and told a story of why he had all of a sudden left New York City. Saietta said he had been sent a Black Hand coercion letter, and dreading for his life, he fled to Baltimore, then Buffalo, before spending the last couple of weeks at his sibling's supermarket in Hoboken. Saietta contracted a phalanx of legal advisors to battle his loan bosses, and he came back to his old frequents in New York City, associating with Morello and the other Black Handers. What Saietta did not know was that Inspector Flynn had his men taking after Saietta as well. One day, they tailed him to Highland, New York, and bingo, now they knew where the fake bills were being printed.