Joe   Pesci      mob groupie    Las Vegas Review-Journal
Actor  Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar for his supporting role in the mob classic “Goodfellas,” is going into business in Las Vegas with convicted racketeer Rick Rizzolo.

They’ll be slicing up the profit from a string of pizza joints called “Pesci’s Pizza.”

They’re doing the paperwork” and could be in business in four or five months, said longtime Pesci associate Tommy DeVito of Las Vegas.

Pesci is a producer of the “Jersey Boys,” a musical based on the lives of the Four Seasons. A spinoff of the Broadway hit has been a hit at The Palazzo since it opened a year ago.

Pesci and DeVito are such close friends that Pesci called DeVito a couple of months before filming began on Martin Scorcese’s “Casino” to say he was taking the name Tom DeVito for his character, a mob thug based on Las Vegas hit man Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro

Pesci, who has played criminal figures in some of his biggest movies, including Las Vegas-set “Casino,” was pulled into the 2003-2006 “G-Sting” investigation into Rizzolo’s alleged underworld connections

During the “G-Sting” federal trial, Stan Hunterton, a former prosecutor with the Justice Department’s Organized Strike Force, told the court, “Not since the reign of Anthony Spilotro and his associates has there been a more infamous hoodlum than Rick Rizzolo.”

Rizzolo was among 17 defendants, including city officials, found guilty on various charges. He served 11 months of a sentence of one year and one day before his release last year.

He also was ordered to sell the Crazy Horse Too. Rizzolo, 50, was placed under three years of supervised release and fined 250.,000

Pesci was  running  around with a Genovese Crime Family Capo   named   Joe Dente.  They both  checked into  the Golden Nugget and Steve Wynn told them both  to take a hike.  

Anthony “the Animal” Fiato