Thomas Monteleone II

Thomas Monteleone was a Canadian born mobster who was murdered after the Lufthansa heist. He is of no relation to the science fiction author of the same name.

Sometime in 1978 or 1979, Thomas purchased a restaurant called "The Player's Club" near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was an associate of hustler Richard Eaton for whom Jimmy Burke would later be convicted of murdering in 1985. Two regular patrons were Paul Vario and Jimmy Burke. On February 18th, 1979 when Richard "Richie" Eaton's frozen corpse was found gagged on the floor of an abandoned tractor trailer in a garbage filled lot, Brooklyn detectives Robert Kohler and James Shea found a phone book with a small address book that had Jimmy Burke's name in it. It was then discovered that Eaton met Burke and Vario at Monteleone's club where he approached the two on a major $250,000 cocaine deal. The police then surmised that Eaton, a friend of Monteleone helped in laundering the Lufthansa heist loot. When trying to locate Thomas Monteleone to verify their conclusion, they discovered Tom Monteleone murdered in Connecticut.

Thomas Monteleone's murder was never officially solved.