| LC control no. | n 2003118570 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Previte, Ron |
| Variant(s) | Fat Rat |
| Birth date | 1943 |
| Death date | 2017- 08 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | New Jersey |
| Field of activity | Organized crime |
| Profession or occupation | Gangsters Informers |
| Found in | Anastasia, George. The last gangster, 2004: CIP t.p. (Ron Previte) galley (former cop turned gangster, then became FBI informant) www.ganglandnews.com, June 1, 2000 (Ron Previte; 56 years old in 2000; also known as "Fat Rat") Philly.com, via WWW, viewed Sept. 1, 2017 (in obituary dated Aug. 29, 2017: Ron Previte; died last week at a South Jersey hospital, at age 73; the role he played in the undoing of the Philadelphia mob was chronicled in George Anastasia's 2005 book, The Last Gangster; born in 1943 in Philadelphia; joined the Philadelphia Police Department after returning from serving in the Air Force in the Vietnam War; later went to work as a security officer at Atlantic City's Tropicana Casino Hotel in the '80s; the modest criminal empire he built out of a diner on the White Horse Pike in Hammonton quickly gained attention--both from the Philadelphia mob, which sought a cut of his action, and the New Jersey state police, who first cultivated him as a source of information on the criminal underworld; Previte's willingness to work with law enforcement--for the right price--ultimately blossomed as he became more and more ingrained in the Philadelphia crime family) |
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