In the 1960s, Schlitten was involved in a garbage labor extortion case involving a major department store with John (Buster) Ardito and Rocco Mazzie.

Samuel (Sammy Schlitz) Schlitten – aka “Sammy Shell” – was born in 1912 in the Bronx. In the mid-1950s, he had moved from New York City out to 1482 Park Street in the exclusive beachfront community of Atlantic Beach,
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