Big Freddy Bertolotti was a notorious underworld gunman and hoodlum with a long arrest record. He was affiliated with not only the Italian Mafia in New York but also several Jewish gangsters as well.
It seems Bertolotti was active in nearly any given racket where he felt he could turn a buck. And he was involved with many, including loansharking and murder.
So much so that during Fiorello LaGuardia’s long tenure as Mayor of New York City, he went so far as to declare Big Freddy Bertolotti a habitual criminal and a Public Enemy of the city.
Big Freddy Bertolotti – Early Life
Frederico (Big Freddy) Bertolotti – aka “Frederick Bertolotti,” “Fred Bertolotti,” and “Fred Bartalotti” – was born in 1907. He grew up in New York during the 1910s and 1920s generally residing and operating from Queens County.