AMAZING RACE winners BATES & ANTHONY BATTAGLIA secret past REVEALED-- their grandpa was a high-ranking Mafia kingpin!
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AMAZING RACE winners BATES & ANTHONY BATTAGLIA secret past REVEALED-- their grandpa was a high-ranking Mafia kingpin!
The hockey-playing brothers took home the million-dollar prize on the popular around-the-world reality TV race – but what most viewers don’t know is that they are the grandsons of Sam “Teets” Battaglia, a murderous Midwest mobster and loan shark who rose to the top of the infamous Chicago Outfit.
“Sam Battaglia was the Don of the Chicago Mafia,” confirmed Jack Walsh, a retired special agent for the Internal Revenue Service, who nailed Battaglia in 1967 and put him in jail for 15 years.
“His street name was ‘Teets’ due to his big buck teeth, and he ran the Chicago Outfit from his farm out west of the city.”